#WalkingTall: PAST visit local schools with theatre project
This initiative offers workshops for secondary school learners and educators that harness this heritage to increase scientific literacy through an understanding of the origins of life and humankind.
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Walking Tall is PAST’s signature educational initiative and the foundation of its overall mission to promote and protect humankind’s rich fossil heritage in Africa.
They recently visited St Mark’s International School, Sitintile Secondary School, Thembeka Secondary School and Valencia Combined School. The launch of the educational theatre project kick-started at the Origins Centre in Johannesburg on Freedom Day.
It showcases the origin sciences as a career track in which Africa’s geographical advantage in the field can and should result in global scientific leadership. It exposes learners to applied evolution and related emerging career opportunities in agriculture, medicine and environmental remediation. It addresses Africa’s critical role in shaping humanity, and uses humankind’s recent origin in Africa as a transformation tool to instil dignity in the continent and promote equality among all people. Walking Tall’s uniqueness and effectiveness lie in its use of theatre to teach science.
The beautiful science classes of Thembeka Secondary School and St Marks International School in Mpumalanga today #WalkingTall #AllFromOne @NRF_News pic.twitter.com/m7mKMmz36m
— PAST AFRICA (@PASTEvolve) May 8, 2018
Our second school on our tour through Mpumalanga this week was Valencia High where our #WalkingTall performance was extremely well received by students as well as the Life Sciences teachers who felt it made the subject of evolution much easier to understand #AllFromOne @NRF_News pic.twitter.com/XzaA5J5vZw
— PAST AFRICA (@PASTEvolve) May 8, 2018
A great start to the week – our #WalkingTall cast kick-started their tour in #Mpumalanga & #Limpopo thanks to @NRF_News – first stop was 160 students at Sitintile High School #AllFromOne @Mtpatourism @MPGov @_mpnews @BMW_SA pic.twitter.com/F8DLBEFZ83
— PAST AFRICA (@PASTEvolve) May 7, 2018
Great Walking Tall performance at the @OriginsCentre today! @PASTEvolve #AllFromOne pic.twitter.com/WKoTcN1NRV
— Silje Evjenth Bentsen 🔥 (@SiljeEB) April 27, 2018