TRIP TO FLØYEN

Fløyen, located in Bergen, is very often visited by a lot of tourists who reach the top to enjoy the beautiful views of the city that this mountain offers. Besides, citizens go up Fløyen to practice sports but however, in this trip we try to have another point of view of Fløyen.

9:00 – The trips begins. We meet up at the funicular station:

We start to walk and to analyse the surroundings. The first stop is on the top of the mountain where our teacher, Karstein, explains us how the valley has been made.

The red lines are the valley. Back in the time, everything was covered by ice. When the ice melted destroyed many stones and the hardest stones remained making this valley. The blue lines are the mountains that remained during the time.



In this point, it is possible to work on all those different kind of stones and introduce some geology in an interactive way.

The stone in the left side is an example of how glaciers have moved that kind of stones from somewhere to the middle of the forest. In the right side, the teacher is explaining us the most famous stone in Norway, larvikite. Larvikite is the national stone in Norway and is one of the hardest stones in the world.

During our way we also focus our attention on the flora and fauna in the mountain. 

In the left side we have a small. The arrow shows one year. It is possible to measure and to analyze all the branches and then we can guess how old it is. In the right side, we can see a holly tree which keeps its leaves during the winter.   

 The spring season is starting; therefore birds sing a lot in order to breed. In our trip we use binoculars to find the birds in the woods.

Birds and squirrels are the most visible animals in the forest during the day.

If we want to try to find other kind of animals with  a net, we try to catch some amphibians.

In red circles we can notice some dragonfly babies. 

Another interesting activity can be done with resources from the nature. In the picture we can see how a flute is being made. Using a knife and a piece of wood of a specific tree is possible to make a small flute.  

During the trip we do many interesting things that may be taught to children in schools, always considering the ages of the children. In the same mountain we find 2 interesting evidences that prove that outdoor education is used in Norway.

First, in the picture on the right side, we find a kindergarten in the middle of the forest. Besides, students from a kindergarten are enjoying activities in the outdoors.

 During the trip we have learnt many interesting activities that we can use in school in order to expend more time in the outdoors and teach things that hardly, are possible to be taught in a regular classroom.