More than 300 primary and lower secondary school students from Can Gio District recently spent a day learning outside the classroom at the Can Gio Mangrove Biosphere Reserve in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam. The students, accompanied by teachers and parents, explored the mangrove forest through hands-on activities that revealed how coastal ecosystems function and why they matter for ocean health.
Inside the forest, the lesson quickly moved from theory to observation. Students examined leaves and roots collected from mangrove trees, arranging them on paper to reconstruct the structure of a plant. Nearby, another group moved between tangled aerial roots searching for animal markers attached to branches. Their task was to assemble the pieces into a food chain, tracing how different species in the mangrove ecosystem depend on one another.
“While looking for the cards to piece together a food chain, I understood that if one species is affected, other species in the forest will also be affected,” said Tran Ngoc Le Vy, a student at Binh Thanh Primary School, Ho Chi Minh City
A field-based learning programme in southern Viet Nam helps students understand how mangrove forests connect land, rivers and
More than 300 primary and lower secondary school students from Can Gio District recently spent a day learning outside the classroom at the Can Gio Mangrove Biosphere Reserve in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam. The students, accompanied by teachers and parents, explored the mangrove forest through hands-on activities that revealed how coastal ecosystems function and why they matter for ocean health.
Inside the forest, the lesson quickly moved from theory to observation. Students examined leaves and roots collected from mangrove trees, arranging them on paper to reconstruct the structure of a plant. Nearby, another group moved between tangled aerial roots searching for animal markers attached to branches. Their task was to assemble the pieces into a food chain, tracing how different species in the mangrove ecosystem depend on one another.
“While looking for the cards to piece together a food chain, I understood that if one species is affected, other species in the forest will also be affected,” said Tran Ngoc Le Vy, a student at Binh Thanh Primary School, Ho Chi Minh City.
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