{"id":7622,"date":"2021-10-13T19:05:48","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T19:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/week-5-discussion-nature-experience-project\/"},"modified":"2021-10-13T19:05:48","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T19:05:48","slug":"week-5-discussion-nature-experience-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/week-5-discussion-nature-experience-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 5 discussion nature experience project"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Throughout this course, we have been exploring environmental issues and challenges, such as fresh drinking water scarcity and biodiversity loss. \u00a0But what would our own lives be like without nature? \u00a0How might nature experiences benefit us? In this activity you are asked to spend time in nature, record experiences, and then share your reflections with the class. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Go outdoors. \u00a0Find a place outside were you can be in nature, state, or local park, a city square with trees and gardens, and old cemetery, or even your own backyard. Be creative. For those of you who may think there is no nature whatsoever around you or you will not hae the opportunity to get out into nature, the podcast The Sound of a Snail: \u00a0A Patients&#8217;s Greatest Comfort will give you get a sense of creative ways to complete this assignment, particularly if you are living in a highly urbanized setting.<\/p>\n<p>Observe: \u00a0Once you are outdoors, choose a comfortable spot where you can stand or sit quielty for a least and hour of uniterrupted solitude. \u00a0Turn off all electronic devices. \u00a0Quietly take in your surroundings. \u00a0What do you notice? \u00a0Use your senses of sight, hearing, smell, and feeling to take the world in. \u00a0Ge as still and quiet as you can. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Write: \u00a0Either while you are outdoors or as soon after your return as you can , set aside at least a half an hour of uninterrupted time to write about your nature experience. \u00a0It should include both what you directly experienced during your time outdoors and your feelings and reflections on the experience itself. \u00a0In our writing consider this question: \u00a0Are human beings a part of nature, or apart from it? \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Create: \u00a0Choose a creative means of sharing your nature experience, and what you learned from it, with the class. \u00a0This could take the form of a series of photographs with captions, a poem, a song, a brief personal essay, a work of art, the design for a board game, a video of some kind, or any other creative avenue you can think of. \u00a0The work should be entirely your own product.<\/p>\n<p>If your work is entirely visual or auditory (eg. fine art photgraphy, music, etc. \u00a0please include a brief statement of 100-200 words that (1) relate your work back to your original nature experience; and (2) relates your work to the question of whether you feel you are a part of nature or apart from it. \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout this course, we have been exploring environmental issues and challenges, such as fresh drinking water scarcity and biodiversity loss. \u00a0But what would our own lives be like without nature? \u00a0How might nature experiences benefit us? In this activity you are asked to spend time in nature, record experiences, and then share your reflections with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homework-help"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}