EXAM 4 LETS GO BITCHES Flashcards
Describe the overall advantages offered to children when they have opportunities for play in natural areas.
- 96% of pictures by children showed that they enjoyed outdoor spaces. (children like being outside)
- Allows for children to be spontaneous and creative
- Time out in natural settings can improve the success in the classroom of children with ADHD and increase their ability (and the ability of all of us) to focus on tasks.
- time and space away from adults (independence)
Explain how play and physical activity in natural spaces contributes to children’s health and independence and how spaces can be designed to support this [read the first two articles].
- Helps them to explore a place away from adults
- Children’s environmental knowledge helps with problem-solving skills.
- Self-directed adventurous journeying helps with developing their sense of space
- enrich imagination and fantasy
- improve motor abilities
- opportunity for escape
- reduce ADHD
- improve strength and balance stystem
- reduce fidgeting
Explain the concept of “nature deficit disorder.”
Explains the increase in - child obesity and childhood psychological issues (ADD, Anxiety, depression)
A way of viewing the problem and describes the human costs of alienation from nature, among them: diminished use of senses, attention difficulties, and higher rates of physical and emotional illness.
used to address the increasing cost to children as they are increasingly deprived of direct contact with nature and the experience of unstructured free play in the out-of-doors.
Identify characteristics of plants or natural spaces that support play or horticulture therapy [read all].
- Theraputic properties
- improve mental health
- improve memory
- homeosapians evolve in a natural environment.
- Helps to maintain homeostasis
- increasing sensory stimulation
- attract birds and butterflies
- walkways
Describe horticulture therapy and name some groups that benefit from this type of therapy [you will be tested on information in the readings and the graphs on the PowerPoint].
Horniculture Therapy- The engagement of people (by a trained therapist) in planting and other gardening activities to improve their physical, mental, and emotional health
Improve cognition of people with mental illness Veterans gardening project
* Feeling of satisfaction and pride
* Alleviates depression
* Takes focus off themselves
* Calming
Help prisoners/ reduce the number of criminals (Green spaces help reduce crime)
* The ridges- elaborate landscaping with the idea that people with mental illness would benefit from fresh air and exercise in a natural environment
Civil war veterans, homeless people, people with seizure disorders, people who attempted suicide
Increase sensory stimulation in dementia patients
causes less naps (time that people went to sleep did not change)
Name specific mental and physical health issues that are alleviated using horticultural therapy or natural settings.
- improved sleep, decreased agitation, improved cognition in dementia patients, improved chronic pain, cardiac, and post-stroke rehabilitation
- Forest bathing
- Improves mental health
- Opportunity for escape
- Gains in self-esteem
Explain the importance of forests in beliefs and traditions of the people of Nepal. Discuss how this is tied into the social and economic needs of the community
Value the forest and use of plants for religious ceremonies. Many parts of the forest (plants and plant products) are used in rituals.
Socio-cultural and economic needs are fulfilled by the forest.
- 80 forest species are used in sociocultural festivals
- Help Tourism industry
- Medicinal resources
- Benefit livestock which is an important resource for them.
- furniture/ tools /timber
- Ficus religiosa- also known as the bodhi tree, peepul, or sacred fig.
- specific plants and trees are symbols of dieties ^^
Explain the impact of Hindu religious beliefs on forest conservation.
How would Hindu beliefs affect the soil
Regulating ecosystem services will be protected because roots protect the soil from erosion
Name the earliest time during which people used plants to commemorate the dead and explain the evidence for this practice.
Fossilized plant stems and flowers from aromatic plants were unearthed in a 12,000-year-old burial in Israel
Flowers were flowering at the time they were buried (spring burials). Wouldn’t have made indentations into the sediment if they weren’t stiff.
Paleobotany- study of ancient plants
Use of pollen to find ancient plants
Describe the types of celebrations that include the Baci-Sou Khuan ceremony, its purpose in such events, and the symbolic importance of the plants used in the ceremony.
It is a widely performed ritual in Laos. Ritual of good luck. performed to mark every event of note which occurs in the family or to welcome and important guest. Soul being integrated with the body.
Symbolism of flowers and other plants:
White cotton threads symbolize continuity, community
Gain favor of deities with food
Flowers: abundance, harmony & order
Fruits: new start
Name the source and origin of frankincense (plant compounds, tree name, and location).
Boswellia trees are the species contain frankincense, a resin (sap that protects against pathogens or insects. Secondary compounds)
grows at the Southern end of the Arabian peninsula
Describe the spiritual uses of frankincense, explaining what properties make it valuable.
Used for burning incense
Used in religious ceremonies and burial rituals as embalming material
Burning it drives away insects
Aromatic qualities
Burning offerings to deities
Masks odor of dead bodies
Explain how peyote is used in rituals and evaluate the legal issues associated with its use.
Peyote- a hallucinogenic plant used in native american rituals
Legal for members of the native american church while they are practicing religious practices
Schedule 1 drug- highly addictive with no medicinal use
Source of mescaline
A religious sacrament among NA tribes across the US- only small amounts to bring about a spiritual introspective mood.
Describe how some healers connect physical and spiritual health and how plants are used to restore balance.
Maya healers used a herbal bath to restore Ch’ulel ( a vital life force) for spiritual healing
Also, burn copal resin
Describe the ways in which olive oil has been used for spiritual, religious, or celebratory purposes.
Olive oil crosses many cultural traditions:
* Olympic winners were wreathed with olive wreaths
* Olive oil is used in Catholic service for blessings
* Jewish menorah (olive oil allows it to burn)
* Sign of peace and friendship in the holy Quran
* Athena struck the ground with her spear and an olive tree arose
Name the place(s) where the tulip is native.
Turkey! And Central Asia
Describe the phenomenon, Tulipmania, including when and where it occurred.
Tulips became popular among the Dutch in 1593. By 1636, the same bulb could be traded 10X per day.
1640s- only 12 bulbs of Semper Augustus left, with 1200 guilders each (more than $80,000). Three times the value of a house
