Edible School Yard and A Night in the Global Village

At the Martin Luther King Junior Middle School they have garden school yard. Every morning for first period they go to the garden to tend to the vegetables, flowers, and herb harvest. This was a way for the teachers to incorporate and combine different subjects in within the hands on of the gardening yard. They also have a chef teacher that teaches them ways of preparing and cooking healthy food. The students seemed to enjoy doing this. By them having to care and take care of crops they took pride in what they were doing. Development of community unity skills were created with in the students. Also the knowledge and willingness to work together as a group to grow and complete the task.
I think that this was great for the students to do. This was a great way to give the students another way or technique of learning subject with integrating harvesting within it. I would like to integrate different interesting things within my classroom. Students seem to learn better when they are doing something they like besides being taught repeat material. Students I believe need more hands on material and less repeat. I thought that this was a great way to get away from the same old thing. It not only help them mentally but help them make better food choices for their physical portion. If there were more places like this around their would be better knowledge of healthiness.
The other podcast that I watched was A Night in the Global Village. This was about student that were of well privilege life styles experiencing poor, poverty stricken life styles. Students were assigned to different living conditions that were simulated around the world. Some of the groups did not have as much as others. They were required to go around and trade things for food, water, and other materials. For many of the students this was a wake up call for them. A lot of them will never go through this in real like because of the riches and non poverty environments they were born in and now live within. How great to put them in the shoes of the less fortunate. Many of them will appreciate what they have now.