A Wolf in a BackPack - Animal tracks and urban tracks
Contenuto dello Zaino - Foto di Marco Pozzi
Recipients
- Primary school
- Lower secondary school
- Upper secondary school
Objectives
- Deepen the social structure of young people
- Compare the landscape of young people with the natural environment to find parallels and differences
- Reflect on the quality of the territory as a whole
- Analyze the sound landscape
- Try to feel part of the landscape
Recipients
- Primary school
- Lower secondary school
- Upper secondary school
Objectives
- Deepen the social structure of young people
- Compare the landscape of young people with the natural environment to find parallels and differences
- Reflect on the quality of the territory as a whole
- Analyze the sound landscape
- Try to feel part of the landscape
Wear the Wolf in a Back Pack, follow the animal trail and come discover the wolf's landscape
The educational proposal is related to the Life WolfAlps EU project, which aims to improve coexistence between wolves and human activities and ensure the long-term conservation of wolves in the Alps.
Description
Many different figures of researchers deal with the wolf: ethologists, naturalists in the strict sense, anthropologists, and - why not - even historians.
Everyone now agrees on how similar man and wolf are: forming a stable family, transmitting information between adults and young, defending their territory, and the need to disperse once maturity is reached.
The choice to dedicate a path to the landscape arises not only to highlight these similarities but also to analyze the environment that surrounds us in a more articulated way.
The abandonment of rural areas has laid the groundwork for the return of wildlife: the wolf is currently the latest addition, but the distribution is also expanding for the lynx and the golden jackal. Until the '50s, over half of the Italian population was linked to agricultural production and farming; with urbanization, an extremely varied lexicon that was supposed to classify not only elements of the agricultural landscape but also of woods, mountain morphology, lakes, hills, and their inhabitants has gradually been lost: the real wildlife and also the deities and spirits that have inhabited those places for millennia.
Methodology
Starting from an analysis of the individual perception of the reference landscape for each boy/girl, we will try to deepen his/her social structure step by step: the learning places, the familiar ones, where it is possible to buy necessary goods from clothes to food, meeting spaces. Subsequently, we will compare ourselves with the natural environment, trying to discover the parallels in the daily life of the wolf and the animals necessary for its survival, and then we will analyze and reflect on the quality of the territory as a whole. A further in-depth study will be on the perception of the sound landscape: from the sounds in which we are immersed daily to the silences of nature - which silences are actually never absent.
The ultimate goal will be to feel not surrounded by the landscape but a part of it.
Recommended period
Depending on the chosen protected area, the activity can be carried out in all seasons.
Duration
- Two consecutive hours in-class meeting + full-day field trip (recommended)
- Two consecutive hours in-class meeting only
- Field trip only: full-day
Trasporti
- Gran Bosco di Salbertrand Natural Park: accessible by train and/or bus
- Val Troncea Natural Park: accessible by bus
- Orsiera Rocciavré Natural Park: accessible by bus
- Lakes of Avigliana Natural Park: accessible by train and/or bus
Cost covered by the school
Recommended equipment
- Long pants
- Mountain boots or shoes with non-slip soles
- Backpack with packed lunch and water bottle
- Tick and mosquito repellent
- K-way
For booking methods, rates, and information, please refer to the dedicated page
Wear the Wolf in a Back Pack, follow the animal trail and come discover the wolf's landscape
The educational proposal is related to the Life WolfAlps EU project, which aims to improve coexistence between wolves and human activities and ensure the long-term conservation of wolves in the Alps.
Description
Many different figures of researchers deal with the wolf: ethologists, naturalists in the strict sense, anthropologists, and - why not - even historians.
Everyone now agrees on how similar man and wolf are: forming a stable family, transmitting information between adults and young, defending their territory, and the need to disperse once maturity is reached.
The choice to dedicate a path to the landscape arises not only to highlight these similarities but also to analyze the environment that surrounds us in a more articulated way.
The abandonment of rural areas has laid the groundwork for the return of wildlife: the wolf is currently the latest addition, but the distribution is also expanding for the lynx and the golden jackal. Until the '50s, over half of the Italian population was linked to agricultural production and farming; with urbanization, an extremely varied lexicon that was supposed to classify not only elements of the agricultural landscape but also of woods, mountain morphology, lakes, hills, and their inhabitants has gradually been lost: the real wildlife and also the deities and spirits that have inhabited those places for millennia.
Methodology
Starting from an analysis of the individual perception of the reference landscape for each boy/girl, we will try to deepen his/her social structure step by step: the learning places, the familiar ones, where it is possible to buy necessary goods from clothes to food, meeting spaces. Subsequently, we will compare ourselves with the natural environment, trying to discover the parallels in the daily life of the wolf and the animals necessary for its survival, and then we will analyze and reflect on the quality of the territory as a whole. A further in-depth study will be on the perception of the sound landscape: from the sounds in which we are immersed daily to the silences of nature - which silences are actually never absent.
The ultimate goal will be to feel not surrounded by the landscape but a part of it.
Recommended period
Depending on the chosen protected area, the activity can be carried out in all seasons.
Duration
- Two consecutive hours in-class meeting + full-day field trip (recommended)
- Two consecutive hours in-class meeting only
- Field trip only: full-day
Trasporti
- Gran Bosco di Salbertrand Natural Park: accessible by train and/or bus
- Val Troncea Natural Park: accessible by bus
- Orsiera Rocciavré Natural Park: accessible by bus
- Lakes of Avigliana Natural Park: accessible by train and/or bus
Cost covered by the school
Recommended equipment
- Long pants
- Mountain boots or shoes with non-slip soles
- Backpack with packed lunch and water bottle
- Tick and mosquito repellent
- K-way
For booking methods, rates, and information, please refer to the dedicated page
