By Izah Morales
Was there a time that you wish to spend class outside the classroom?
Now, you don’t have to sit and feel sleepy while listening to an hour and a half lecture of ecology in class. The Eco-Academy at the La Mesa Ecopark brings learning outside the classroom.
“Nature is your classroom. You’re involved in the activities not only in lectures. You learn from your surroundings. What you learn is how nature works,” said Antonio de Castro, environmental advocate and one of the members of the Eco-Academy Project Development team.
Elizabeth Protacio-De Castro, associate professor of the Department of Psychology at the University of the Philippines Diliman, described learning in the Eco-Academy as interactive and hands-on. Each activity is accompanied by a module.
The modules include watershed, basic organic planting and gardening, waste management, vermiculturing and composting, organic farming, rice planting, global warming, climate change and biodiversity conservation.
“The distinct facility is the La Mesa resource. Not all universities can provide an education on how to conserve a watershed. By coming to La Mesa, you understand how important water is,” added Marianita Girlie Villariba, resident gender educator of Education for Life.
According to Protacio-de Castro, inculcating deep respect and appreciation for nature is key to other values.
“The grace and beauty of God’s creation is most perfectly found in nature. If the students can learn this, all of the other values will come -- the caring the sharing, the nurturing,” said Protacio-de Castro.
During the launch of the Eco-Academy multi-purpose hall, Congresswoman Ana Rosa Susano called for global environmental awareness among the youth.
“We need to explore more knowledge on how to keep the environment healthy and to be more aware of the pollution not only in the city but all over the world,” said Susano.
Aside from the experiential learning from the Eco-Academy, the La Mesa Ecopark also features the electronic jeepneys from the Department of Tourism (DOT), which would serve as a green vehicle for visitors.
“Having electronic jeepneys will allow them to see these new technologies that we can use so that there is a balance between development and environmental protection,” said Tourism Secretary Joseph Ace Durano.
The La Mesa Ecopark has recorded 148, 437 student visitors from 804 schools nationwide in 2006 and 2007.
Bantay Kalikasan established the Eco-Academy to further environmental awareness through education and advocacy. It hopes to operate the academy by first quarter of 2009.
Was there a time that you wish to spend class outside the classroom?
Now, you don’t have to sit and feel sleepy while listening to an hour and a half lecture of ecology in class. The Eco-Academy at the La Mesa Ecopark brings learning outside the classroom.
“Nature is your classroom. You’re involved in the activities not only in lectures. You learn from your surroundings. What you learn is how nature works,” said Antonio de Castro, environmental advocate and one of the members of the Eco-Academy Project Development team.
Elizabeth Protacio-De Castro, associate professor of the Department of Psychology at the University of the Philippines Diliman, described learning in the Eco-Academy as interactive and hands-on. Each activity is accompanied by a module.
The modules include watershed, basic organic planting and gardening, waste management, vermiculturing and composting, organic farming, rice planting, global warming, climate change and biodiversity conservation.
“The distinct facility is the La Mesa resource. Not all universities can provide an education on how to conserve a watershed. By coming to La Mesa, you understand how important water is,” added Marianita Girlie Villariba, resident gender educator of Education for Life.
According to Protacio-de Castro, inculcating deep respect and appreciation for nature is key to other values.
“The grace and beauty of God’s creation is most perfectly found in nature. If the students can learn this, all of the other values will come -- the caring the sharing, the nurturing,” said Protacio-de Castro.
During the launch of the Eco-Academy multi-purpose hall, Congresswoman Ana Rosa Susano called for global environmental awareness among the youth.
“We need to explore more knowledge on how to keep the environment healthy and to be more aware of the pollution not only in the city but all over the world,” said Susano.
Aside from the experiential learning from the Eco-Academy, the La Mesa Ecopark also features the electronic jeepneys from the Department of Tourism (DOT), which would serve as a green vehicle for visitors.
“Having electronic jeepneys will allow them to see these new technologies that we can use so that there is a balance between development and environmental protection,” said Tourism Secretary Joseph Ace Durano.
The La Mesa Ecopark has recorded 148, 437 student visitors from 804 schools nationwide in 2006 and 2007.
Bantay Kalikasan established the Eco-Academy to further environmental awareness through education and advocacy. It hopes to operate the academy by first quarter of 2009.
I'm interested in volunteering to this Eco-Academy program. I think this should be implemented to all provinces. I hope they can roll out the soonest possible time.
is there a lesson fit for kids (specifically pre-school kids) if a trip to the la mesa eco-park will be included in their field trip? thanks!
Hi karen!
Here are the basic modules (activities) that they are offering:
watershed, basic organic planting and gardening, waste management, vermiculturing and composting, organic farming, rice planting, global warming, climate change and biodiversity conservation.
Maybe, it would be your call whether the activities will be fit for kids.
For most of us the classroom was the only place to learn and to sit throughout the year in the classroom with books can be a bore. Thanks to modern educators there are more outdoor learning activities even for the kids. Field trips, study tours and going out on a survey work excites the students, wish such types of trips were also included for students of other streams. Going out live and experiencing what's in the book or what we're going to appear in the tests is more effective then classroom learning. An educational system which uses the traditional approach and confines the students to only classroom has to introduce a new syllabus.
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Elizabeth Protacio-De Castro, associate professor of the Department of Psychology at the University of the Philippines Diliman, described learning in the Eco-Academy as interactive and hands-on. Each activity is accompanied by a module
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