Shvat Tu B’Shvat: Sustainability

• The students will learn about Tu B’Shvat as a holiday with an environmental message
• The students will understand and internalize the importance of values like environmental protection and caring for future generations as part of the values of sustainability

Opening Hook

• Find objects produced by nature in the classroom
• Walk around, investigate, check lunch boxes
• Compete in teams to find the most items
• Explain Tu B’Shvat’s evolution and introduce the sustainability theme

Part 1: “To Work and Safeguard”

• Study the verse from Genesis 2:15
• Work on Midrash Kohelet Rabbah (Supplement 1): What job did G-d give to Adam?
• Share in plenary and create a poster
• Level 3: Discuss different statements about human-environment relationship (Supplement 2)
• Level 1: Illustrate with comic strips

Part 2: Acting for the Sake of Future Generations

• Write collaborative chain stories about Tu B’Shvat (8 sentences each)
• Study the legend of King Hadrian and the elderly planter (Supplement 3)
• Discuss: Why plant trees? Why do things for future generations?
• Reflect on tree benefits for present and future
• Level 1: Create a tree from natural materials

Conclusion

• Invite students to propose one concrete action to protect the environment
• Create a collective poster: “To Work and Safeguard”

The document does not provide an explicit list of equipment, but we can identify:

• Board or projector (to display verses and texts)
• Printed supplements:
  • Supplement 1: Midrash Kohelet Rabbah
  • Supplement 2: Statements about human-environment relationship (Level 3)
  • Supplement 3: Legend of King Hadrian and the old man
• Blank pieces of paper (for chain stories activity)
• Materials for poster/stickers (for conclusion)
• Access to digital quiz (QR code provided in document)
• Natural materials (Level 1: to make a tree)

Computer Game: Concluding Quiz: Tu B’Shvat and Sustainability

• Invite students to play a digital quiz game
• Students can play individually or in teams
• Questions concern subjects addressed in the lesson on Tu B’Shvat and sustainability
• For each question, students will need to choose between two possible answers: one that is correct and one that is incorrect
• Students should try to answer as many questions as they correctly can
• The quiz has two levels: Level 1 is easier than Level 2
• A QR code is provided in the document to access the quiz