eCo: Soil
A Wildermage project
ootiboo and Wildermage Games Inc. are delivering a 90-minute workshop for Years 4–6, combining Science curriculum units (rocks, soils, and habitats) with English speaking and listening. Using lore from the upcoming adventure game, students explore the 'WorldWithin', a mystical fantasy realm where Fae maintain real-world nature.
eCo: Soil is a creative ecology workshop brought to life in partnership with Wildermage Games Inc, using storytelling and characters from the Wildermage universe to help children explore the conditions plants need to grow.
The perfect soil
Working in groups at dedicated stations, students receive a bowl of low-nutrient topsoil, essential tools, and mixing ingredients. Using context clues and scientific fact sheets, teams must deduce missing information from the damaged recipe cards to engineer the perfect soil formulas for various common British flowers and vegetables.
Mix, plant, grow
Once mixed, students decant their custom soils into seedling trays and sow the appropriate seeds. These trays can then stay with the school, allowing the children to watch their plants grow long after the workshop ends.
Lessening our impact
Students discuss human environmental impacts, focusing on issues like soil quality. Working together, the class must balance essential human needs, such as housing, against ecological preservation by proposing practical ways to reduce our overall environmental footprint.
Helping the Fae
Throughout the workshop, the children are introduced to inhabitants of the WorldWithin, the fantasy realm behind our own, taken from the upcoming nature-based outdoor mobile adventure game, Wildermage: Core Edition.
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