Cape Town School Nature Challenge
What biodiversity occurs in and around our schools?
Plants and animals enhance our living experience by providing green lungs, pleasing vistas, shade and landscaping, and variety in our environments, and even food and shelter. Our school gardens colour and shape our interaction with nature and one another, providing environments for shelter, privacy, games and relaxation. And merely appreciating forms, colours, contrasts and seasonal beauty.
How well does your school shape up? What plants grow in and around the grounds? What animals visit and feed, disperse, pollinate and live in the environs? Does your school focus on shade, fields, food or useful plants? Is it an oasis or an extension of the urban open space? Is it water-wise, bird- or insect-friendly, or utilitarian? Do you have a special section for biodiversity, or a wetland, or an insect hotel, or nest boxes, or bee hives?
This is your chance to document your school environs. The plants, animals and moulds that live in and visit your world. Dont ignore the lawns and weeds, or the bees and the birds.
Take part in the City Nature Challenge and in late April help map out our school biodiversity in the City of Cape Town. Join thousands of scholars in mapping our city's nature.
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Question: What should we enter for our "School Team Name"?
A: Anything that includes your school name. Your teachers will coordinate names for your school, depending on how many teams will enter - please only user names approved by your school.
Here are some examples:
"Bergvalley High School"
"Ecological Society, The Drifters High School"
"Photography Club, Kommetjie Secondary School"
"Class 9b, Sweetvalley High School"
"Bracken Bioblitzers, Class 8a, Bracken Boys High"
Question: How many teams can we have participating?
A: Not more than one per class. Your teachers will coordinate names for your school.
Question: Where can we make observations from?
A: Your school. Your home. Your neighbourhood. Your nature reserves. So long as it is in the City of Cape Town and on the four days of the Challenge. Get your teacher to help plan an event for your class.
Question: How can we see who else is participating and what they have seen?
A: Go to the School City Nature Challenge project: click here: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/cape-town-school-nature-challenge
or here: https://www.inaturalist.org/observation_fields/10150
Question: Do we sign up with our school teams?
A: No. You sign up as yourself. To take part in the School City Nature Challenge, add the project to your observation and fill in your team name.
You can start practicing now. But only observations made during the four days of the challenge will contribute to the challenge. But that does not mean that you cannot have fun learning about your local plants, animals and moulds in the meantime.
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