Edible Schoolyard/A Night in the Global Village

I watched a six minute video on The Edible Schoolyard and it was very interesting. It was about a school by the name of Martin Luther King Junior Middle School in California that literally had an edible schoolyard. HA! First period students would come outside and plant gardens and grow vegetables and other sorts of foods and then use them to cook all kinds of yummy foods! They would cook them during class in the classroom. It was very interesting how well the kids worked together. The person who started this was a lady by the name of Alice Waters and she did this to serve the kids better food in the lunch room and it just became this thing where the kids took it over and it became a class. The teachers integrate all subjects into this class from math to science. The kids love it, they have fun and learn at the same time. It also teaches them how to work together. It would be nice if I could do something like this in my classroom when I begin to teach but that is wishful thinking!

A I watched a video called A Night in the Global Village. It was about a group of students who took a field trip with their teachers to this village at the Heifer Ranch in Perryville, Arkansas. They were trading one night as an American for one night of the less fortunate of the world. They were divided up into groups and some stayed in refugee camps, while others where in Thailand homes ...etc. It was very interesting to watch the students try to get through the night and cook their food. The next morning when they woke up they were very excited and ready to talk about everything they had experienced. I really liked this video!