Edible Garden and Night in Global Village

These two videocasts open my eyes to many things. The Edible Garden was a video about a garden that was started as a way to make school lunches better. It evolved into a great learning oppurtunity. The garden allowed the students to cover content material such as Math and Science. It covered Math by measuring the items grown in the garden to make food. The teacher used examples such as cups and teaspoons. The garden integrated Science by photosythesis and bacterica sucjects. It allowed students to get a hands on experience.

The Night in a Global Village was a video about students and teachers putting themselves in the shoes of those less fortunate than themselves. They set up different villages and assigned students to each village. There were different villages and a refugee camp. Each village had one item the others did not, and the students has to negotiate in order to recieve some of that item, such as water. During the stay, the participants learned information about sanitation. The students were able to act out as if they were really in the situation of hunger and poverty.

An educator can take both of these videos and use them in his/her classroom. In the Edible Garden, the teacher could use this example to bring other things into classroom content. It allows the students to get a different approach to learning. Even if the teacher was not allowed to plant a garden, he/she could bring baking items into the classroom and have the students measure things out. To integrate science, the teacher could bring plants and other things to help students relate to the subject.

Every American student should watch the Night in a Global Village. I think it could be a real eye opener to how lucky some students are. A teacher could play the video in the classroom. Then assign a day for students to bring lunches. The teacher could set up different areas around the class and label them as different villages. Then the students could be divided, and sent to different "villages". This will help get the students to work together to get the items they need.