Informal learning activities/Primary

The resources described below, and linked to from here, are the four groups of link lists that the Informal learning activities resources started out with.  They might be thought of as the first four trunks of wander trees starting a wander avenue within a name forest.

Primary Groves

  The explanation following the links just below is about the four name tree forests, i.e. groups of primary name tree groves.  That explanation assumes that newcomers to this page have taken in the more general explanation in the base page.

Links to Groves

Things and Bits:   A B C  D E F  G H I  J K L  M N O  P Q R  S T U  V W X Y Z

Beings and Behaviour:  A B C  D E F  G H I  J K L  M N O  P Q R  S T U  V W X Y Z

Men and Women:   A B C   D E F  G H I  J K L  M N O  P Q R  S T U  V W X Y Z

Places and Buildings:  A B C   D E F  G H I  J K L  M N O  P Q R  S T U  V W X Y Z

Name Tree Forests

  There are two primary name tree forests of generic name tree groves: Things and Bits and Beings and Behaviour.  • The items in the Things and Bits groves are about inanimate objects or parts thereof.  For example:   couch (settee).  • The items in the Beings and Behaviour groves are about living objects or parts or behaviours thereof.  For example:   bird (beaked).

  In English, generic or common names do not usually start with a capital letter unless they are at the beginning of a sentence.  The generic name tree groves are described here.

  There are two primary name tree forests of specific name tree groves: Men and Women and Places and Buildings.  The items in the Men and Women groves are about people of the past, that is, that are no longer living.  For example: • Charles Dickens 18 (author) .  The items in the Places and Buildings groves are about geographic locations or their content.  For example: • Alaska USA (state) .

  Two name tree forests are provided for specific names, in which the main name of items starts with a capital letter.  The group for historic people, mostly for particular men or women, is described here.  The group for geographic things, mostly for places or buildings, is described here.

Name Trees

  At present the available resources provide name trees, so-called because they provide a choice of starting points for wandering.  The starting points are Wikipedia or Wiktionary pages which are like the trunk of a tree.  A starting point is like the trunk of a tree because it provides links to other Wikipedia (sometimes Wiktionary, rarely further afield) pages that are like the branches of a tree.  Those branches in turn provide other links, and so on, and so on.

  The various Wikipedia and other pages describe an entity of some kind, and the kinds are many and varied.  Rather than having one list of entities, it is less confusing to have separate name trees for different kind of entities.  At present, four name trees are provided.  These are all for older wanderers, though there is clearly a need for name trees for younger people.

  The names of entities are of two basic kinds, generic and specific.

  In English, generic or common names do not usually start with a capital letter unless they are at the beginning of a sentence.  The generic name tree groves are described here.

  Most specific or proper names are more complex than simple generic names, so that their list items are more complex.

  Two groups of lists are provided for specific names, and these will be described separately.  The group for historic people, mostly for particular men or women, is described here.  The group for geographic things, mostly for places or buildings, is described here.