Nature vs Man made

We have to report on certain aspects of the curriculum. I hadnt been given these areas until after I had done all my programing so I had a few issues trying to assess my kids on it. I had to come up with some activities to teach and test them in a short amount of time.

One of the areas was the natural environment. Students had to work out if something was man made or natural. Now i didnt think this would be much of an issue but there was very little understanding.

'Miss, is the oval man made?'

Was it always there?

Yes

So it is natural

So the goal posts are natural too?

No, they werent always there

Yes they were.

Hmmm...

So this went on for about 30 mins. I took them outside and they had to catogorise everything they saw. Many of them were very muddled until on of the children said:

'So miss...when you say its natural, does that mean that Jesus made it?'

'Yes, you could say that'.

The girl then went and told everyone...'Its Jesus made or Man made'. There was a collective sigh of 'oh...why didnt you just say that?''

They had no issues after that.