Edutopia

The Edible Schoolyard


Martin Luther King Jr. middle school the spend their first period planting in the garden at their school. The teachers use every aspect in the garden to teach the students. The garden is the center of the teacher's learning environment. The students will benefit greatly from the garden. Students who are very good with their hands will succeed greatly. Alice Waters originally came up with the idea of having the garden and incorporating it into learning. It teaches them the values of everyday life. Teaches them where food comes from and the cycle it goes through to become a plant or vegetable or fruit.

The Global Village

The Rocky Mountain school is a school that allows students and teachers to see how some people live in different countries around the world in one night.
The name of the organization is called The Global Village.
The Global Village raises awareness about hunger. Some of the countries they try to portray are Thailand, Appalachia, refugee camps. They are used to demonstrate how each of these countries live.
The students choose numbers to see which country their going to get.
The students have to be able to work together and learn how to survive off the things they have.
I really enjoyed learning about the Global Village, I think it's very important that students get to see first hand how other cultures live. It will make them appreciate things more and should make them more thankful.