# \[Urban Ecology Email Mini-Course\] Week 2 Exploration Prompt

**URL:** <https://heyplix.mit.edu/t/urban-ecology-email-mini-course-week-2-exploration-prompt/90>\
**Category:** Urban Ecology 🌱\
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**Created:** [August 24, 2020, 4:00am UTC](https://heyplix.mit.edu/t/urban-ecology-email-mini-course-week-2-exploration-prompt/90 "2020-08-24T04:00:00Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 24, 2020, 4:00am UTC](https://heyplix.mit.edu/t/urban-ecology-email-mini-course-week-2-exploration-prompt/90/1 "2020-08-24T04:00:00Z")

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**This thread is for sharing the results of your Week 2 Exploration Prompt from the [PLIX Urban Ecology Email Mini-Course](http://eepurl.com/ha44fH).** Completing these prompts will give you a chance to get into the urban ecology spirit and give you a better understanding of your local environment!

As a reminder, here’s the prompt for Week 2:

> **Complete your own mini-sort! Collect at least 10 objects from around your library’s grounds (or on your commute, or around your home!).** Then, sort your objects in some way—perhaps based on a physical feature (like color or texture), morphology (shape) or where you found it. Snap a photo of your sort, and share it by replying in the thread below!

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_The **PLIX Urban Ecology Email Mini-Course** is a three-week automated email course that will help prepare you to run the [PLIX Urban Ecology activity series](https://plix.media.mit.edu/activities/urban-ecology) in your library! Each week you’ll receive an email with reading excerpts, facilitation tips, and an exploration prompt to get you outside and into the urban ecology spirit!_ _**Interested in participating? [Sign-up here!](https://plix.media.mit.edu/activities/mini-courses)**_ 🌱🏙🌿🏡🍂🧭🐛🏗🚌🌳

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**Author:** ![katherine](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/heyplix.mit.edu/katherine/32/15_2.png) [@katherine](https://heyplix.mit.edu/u/katherine)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2020, 6:08pm UTC](https://heyplix.mit.edu/t/urban-ecology-email-mini-course-week-2-exploration-prompt/90/2 "2020-09-30T18:08:09Z")

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I collected all of my potted indoor herbs that I’ve been attempting to grow and sorted them on a spectrum from “not really thriving” to “thriving” \>\>

 ![Screen Shot 2020-09-30 at 13.05.20](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/uploads/mit2/original/1X/0d8eb22fcf325a1762e04004e5065217e92c45df.jpeg)

As you can see they’re not doing great… I think I don’t have a sunny enough spot in my house for herbs unfortunately 🙁… but it was fun to sort them!