Big Idea: “People, animals, and plants share the environment, and we have a responsibility to care for all living things.”

Transdisciplinary Theme: Sharing the Planet – Biodiversity and Habitats

Age Group: PYP 3
Duration: 1 Night / 2 Days
Venue: Coorg – Tibetan Monastery, Nisargadhama Nature Island, Dubare Elephant Camp
Learning Style: Experiential • Inquiry-driven • Sensory-rich • Reflective • Collaborative

Includes: Pre-Tour Learning • On-Tour Experiences • Post-Tour Reflection and Action


Program Overview

The Coorg Experiential Programme immerses students in real-life learning where nature, culture, wildlife, and human communities connect. Through cultural exploration, guided nature walks, sensory learning experiences, interaction-based observation, journaling, team discussions, and responsible wildlife awareness education, students understand how living things depend on one another. The programme nurtures environmental awareness, empathy, curiosity, responsibility, and thoughtful reflection while strengthening inquiry, communication, research, collaboration, and creative expression.


Key Learning Dimensions

Connection • Responsibility • Interdependence • Awareness


Subject Integration

Science – Living Things and Their Needs:
Students explore ecosystems, animal needs, sensory nature learning, and living–nonliving understanding through observation, sketching, and guided inquiry.

Social Studies – Communities and Culture:
Students meaningfully experience Tibetan culture, understand migration, cultural symbols, lifestyle, and respectful intercultural understanding.

Arts – Creative Expression Through Nature:
Students express learning through leaf rubbings, symbolic art, nature designs, and visual creativity, strengthening observation and expression.

Math – Pattern and Measurement Awareness:
Students explore natural and cultural patterns, counting activities, comparison tasks, and simple measurements to build real-life numeracy thinking.

Language – Observation and Communication:
Students speak, write, reflect, build vocabulary, and share experiences through structured speaking circles, journaling, and descriptive writing.


ATL Skills

Students develop Thinking, Research, Communication, Social, and Self-Management skills through inquiry, collaboration, reflection, observation, respectful interactions, organisation, and responsibility during learning experiences.


Learning Objectives

Students understand interdependence among people, animals, and plants, recognise responsibility toward living beings, experience culture respectfully, and strengthen inquiry, reflection, communication, and collaborative learning skills.


Learning Outcomes

Students can describe what they observed in nature and cultural settings, explain basic needs of living things (including elephants) and responsible care, demonstrate safe and respectful behaviour, participate confidently, and reflect meaningfully, showing empathy, awareness, and responsible attitudes.

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