Many many years ago when I was in primary school, I believe you call it Grade school
We where visited by many members of the community in different vocations,
I really recall The police - the drug unit, and dog units and Firefighters, etc coming to our schools
Giving us learners a good talk and presentation on what they do and what to look out for etc.
I recall it made an impact even in a small way growing up and helped me feel at easy and know what it is to be careful of and built a good relationship and respect for those members of society. Also gave some decent insights to other careers,etc.
With all the above being said, I have been recently approached by a teacher of a school (primary/grade school) here
to give a presentation on what it is I do - Which Is survival (as that is what as been assigned this term; members of the community, people I know, careers,etc)
And it long touches on a separate Idea I been having that goes hand in hand with this I will term that As "motivational" informative, and interesting.
I have asked basically the age group of the children, they around the 4- 6 year old group, I would say Grade 1 or 2 learners.
I dont want to give a very long and drawn out boring presentation, I also Do not want to be presenting things that they may want to replicate that might be dangerous... also I am a bit worried on bringing certain kit such as Knives or cutting tools either for show purpouses or demonstration.
But what I have thought of is basically the following:
Maybe a 30 -45min tops presentation about Wilderness survival
the basics of what it is, why you would need to do it, and what you might need
The basics of the most important things:
Shelter - Have a simple shelter Built with a tarp As a visual
Water, water purification, water finding
Rescue
Simple navigation ( a demonstration - shadow stick)
Fire - perhaps A bow drill demonstration, as I highly doubt a young learner would be able to replicate this at home.
Perhaps Food, as in wild foods, like perhaps bring some earth worms, and eat them for the kids amusement.
Ask them some general questions, as to get participation, such as which direction the sun rises from kind of thing...
And I suppose go over the rules of 3's
I have also Thought Of bringing some photos, and video clips for the things which May take too much time to out right do and show
and perhaps some examples of things and places I have been and done these things for them to see.
In other words very basic survival 101 things but watered down that it is easy to absorb and entertaining..
But also I am trying to think of things that can be hands on take home things that may help them or at least give them a bit of an interest in nature and reverence thereof I guess..
Your inputs are greatly appreciated.. I have yet to formalize what exactly I want to do and how I want to structure it...
I have a few weeks To prepare...
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