City Rally on Sustainable Development

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City rallies help everyone become more familiar with the place where the meeting is held, help you and your participants get to know one another, and provide information on sustainable development. Participants form small teams that receive instructions for a trip through the city. After their independent work they present their results to the other participants.

Time 5 hours: ½ hour explanation, 3½ hours rally and introduction, 1 hour presentation and reflection

Group Size 10 – 40 people

Keywords City Rallye, Global Learning, Sustainable Development


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Goals

Participants get to know one another /plan and act in a team. Discover the new environment. Start to work with Sustainable Development.

How to do it

Prepare the tasks beforehand (best: walk through the city for inspiration), print them, prepare lunch packets or money for lunch, emergency numbers.

Split participants into groups of 4-5 persons / give them various tasks concerning the city and Sustainable Development (see examples) and have them present their results and findings creatively. An unit about Sustainable Development can follow.

Source

  • Arpine Galfayan, Sebastian Wehrsig, Nils-Eyk Zimmermann: Environment and Civil Involvement; How Can We Connect Sustainable Development Education and Active Citizenship Empowerment? ISBN 978-3-944012-01-8 Online

Arpine Galfayan

Eypert for Education for Sustainable Development and activist for active citizenship from Jerewan, Armenia.



Experience

By choosing different tasks you can address various levels of learning such as topical, touristic, creative, cognitive... Keep in mind that participants need time and resources for recreation, lunch, shopping.