The chest of knowledge in LVM Nature Park in Tērvete

Wednesday, 16 november 2016

The LVM Nature Park in Tērvete is growing and developing already from year 1958, when the first hike trails in the most picturesque part of the park – Iršu Garden – were created by forester Miķelis Kļaviņš. The JSC “Latvia’s State Forests” is managing Nature Park in Tērvete for 17 years, it has implemented environmental education programme “Learning about forests”, where methods adapted for specific age groups of schoolchildren are used to tell about nature, forest and humans. In all times humans with their senses – sight, touch, hearing, smell and taste – feel the environment around them and learns from the information received. And is there a better way to learn about forest than to go into it and check, smell, touch and rethink everything that you saw and heard? In the LVM Nature Park in Tērvete one can see things that usually stay unnoticed.

In autumn season of the new school year, more than 2000 children from various educational institutions have studied in the Green Classroom of LVM Nature Park in Tērvete in the framework of forest and environmental education programme “Learning about Forests”. In September only, the Green Classroom contact lessons has been attended by 1042 students and teachers, they had a chance to see forest from a different point of view. After carrying out practical tasks in forest environment, children use and test the knowledge that they have learned in school – mathematics, natural sciences and literature, and other. They gain an understanding of how to put to practical use their knowledge also in forest. The Green Classroom also teaches about forest – the “green gold” of Latvia – how it grows and develops. Children, in guidance of the LVM environmental guides, have a possibility to understand how the company is wisely managing the state owned treasures.

Winter season is the time when the LVM Nature Park in Tērvete opens the doors of creative environmental workshops that allow children to engage practically, draw new knowledge from the smart Dwarf family and have fun from the Mārtiņdiena until the Christmas. But in the new year it is time to go on educational hikes in the mysterious corners of the Nature Park in Tērvete by reading the letters of natures, large and small footprints, learning the signs that has been left by Mammadaba!

The number of those children who want an active recreation in nature and to learn different forest wits in the LVM Nature Park in Tērvete is increasing year by year. The LVM Nature Park in Tērvete is developing into an environmental education centre for schoolchildren by providing learning excursions and lessons, camps and creative workshops.