Activity Flow
- As a facilitator, you ask the group: “Why do we actually need the sun? How do we use the sun's rays? And what would we miss if it suddenly disappeared?”
- The participants throw in their ideas, you or someone you assigned with this task writes them down (e.g. on a whiteboard, a piece of wrapping paper, etc.). If only a few ideas come up, you ask and give tips. Think outside of the box, there will be many more uses than you expect (for example think about health, orientation, plants, climate etc.).
- In the end, the whole group takes a look at how wide the range of ‘uses’ of the sun is, what the sun does for us.
- As facilitator, can you live one day in the coming week by relying only on solar energy? Are you ready to try it out? What if you had to do so for your whole life?
Relevant information if you are facilitating
Mention and discuss also the fact that not all the “uses” of the sun are positive, some can be harmful. In many cases, it’s the dose that makes the poison. Too much sunlight can be harmful in some circumstances, but without the sun, life on earth would not be possible.
In case you had tried out in practise point 4 before the brainstorming event (living one day only on solar energy), you can also share experiences about it with the group and discuss in which activities of our daily lives the energy of the sun can be an alternative to less climate-friendly sources of energy.
