Urban Green Care
Acivity 5
Digitally mapping the urban green care initiatives in my city!
This activity will help you develop your critical thinking skills to learn to create digital maps online and combine it with your online research skills. Identify green spaces, initiatives and green exercise activities in your region or city and record them in the form of a digital map with comments/notes and photos is a skill you will develop that can help you to work in the green business sector in companies or NGOs dealing with green actions for citizens.
Read about the GOOD PRACTICE in the resources section: regarding the “Green Gym” an initiative for green exercise in urban green spaces that help both your body and mind to stay fit and promote citizen’s well-being. With this good practice as an example your main task is to make an online map enriched with notes or images, using the well-known google maps service in order to map where there are urban green activities & initiatives in your city and green spaces that can be used for green exercise in your opinion! Watch the videos through the 4 links provided in the resources section and follow their simple tips/steps to make your custom online map. Add to your map all exploitable green spaces and any green exercise and green activites initiatives you already know or discover are happening in your city. At the end of the task, if you want, make your map public and share it with your friends and acquaintances on social media! Maybe this will inspire other young people and other individuals to get involved in green exercise.