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The facilitator will call out one thing from both the lists, for example, water. All learners
who have chosen to be water will gently pull the wool. The facilitator will continue to call
out all the names of the living and non-living things on the list and each ‘thing’ will gently

tug at the wool.

1. Did anyone drop the ball or the string he/she was holding? What would happen to the
ecosystem if that really happened?

2. What would happen if ‘water’ dropped his/her string? Would the ‘birds’ and ‘animals’

also have to drop because they cannot survive without water?

3. What happened when human beings, factories, roads, buildings, homes and so on were
added to this ecosystem web? Could the ecosystem take the weight?

4. In real life, how do people topple the ecosystems of the world? For example, producing
things like cars in factories, adding pesticides to land for crops, creating landfills and
so on.

Discuss what you have learnt from this activity and what it makes you think about. Talk
about how human activity destroys ecosystems, homes of animals and pollutes rivers and
oceans. (Hint: Think about people cutting trees for paper, furniture and to make place for
homes, building roads, etc.)

Exercise and Discuss:
In groups of four, brainstorm ideas on how people’s actions affect the environment and

create a poster to show the same.

Put up your posters in the class.

Always carry a reusable shopping bag. Say NO to plastic bags. Say NO to plastic bags

Think about:

Form groups of four learners. Discuss some of the things that you can do by yourself to care
for the environment. For example, you can turn off lights and fans when you leave a room
and switch off all electric switches at night to save electricity. When we save electricity, we

save the natural resources of the earth, namely fossil fuels, that are burnt to create electricity.

Research library/Internet sources if you need to.

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