CSR program aims to improve classroom learning
Since its inception in 2011, Nature Class- chosen Manila public science high school teachers continue to receive grants for field immersions that promote enhanced teaching techniques in natural environmental settings. Its successful pilot project provided select science teachers extensive lectures on marine life from marine experts and advocates through the project dubbed “Marine Reef Quest”.
The following year, Nature Class partnered with the Wild Bird Club of the Philippines, as well as with science department heads of 35 public schools in Manila, to experience Bird Watching (Bird Quest) in Candaba, Pampanga. On the third year of Nature Class, tree planting was the main objective wherein teachers grouped together to give a permanent home for native trees and plants at the foot of Mt. Makiling.
Venny Alano, a science teacher from Cayetano Arellano High School and one of the grantees of Nature Class, is set to demonstrate and impart her firsthand experience in Nature Class to her students. The classroom demonstration will be aided by special colorful visuals on biodiversity provided by the Center for Outdoor Recreation and Expedition (C.O.R.E.). The learning did not stop from the classroom discussion as the students also imparted their brand new knowledge and newfound advocacies on biodiversity through a series of activities, from poetry, poster and slogan making, among others.
C.O.R.E aims to pursue collaboration efforts with the Manila Natural Science Instruction and Supervision section to assure that teachers integrate this knowledge in their respective classroom learning agenda. Coming up next for C.O.R.E is another exciting learning activity involving native trees and plants in coordination with the Philippine Native Plants Conservation Society, Inc.
Nature Class is a project of C.O.R.E, in support of the urgency to promote and spread awareness for environmental conservation.
For more information, visit C.O.R.E.’s website at coreasia.org.ph. Like them on facebook.com/CORE.ph. C.O.R.E. is the advocacy arm of the Primer Group of Companies.