Ways of learning

In the video cast " A night in the Global Village" was so cool to watch. This was a video of students from the Rocky Mountains who went on a trip to the Heifer ranch, in Arizona. This is a program designed to help students learn about hunger and poverty. It was amazing to see how many young kids wanted to experiance how others live in different parts of the world.Each group represented a different country, and on the ranch there were all teh different types of living, as far as housing, and each group had to stay at their country's living quarters.They were deffinatly out of their comfort zones, especcially the students who had to be the refugeses, they were not able to speek and they had no supplies, like the others did, forcing them to beg from the others. While they were at the ranch, they had to sleep, cook, eat and problem solve like the people of their assigned countries do.

The Second video cast was " The edible schoolyard", which took place at Martin Luther King jr middle school in California. At this school, gardening is the center of the classroom. They teach the students how to garden, harvest and eat organic foods. The gardent realtes to all subjects, socail studies, where the foods come from, Math,measurements for cooking, science,how they grow, and life in general.

Both of these podcast can be useful in the classroom, to teach students about science, and socail studies. They both can show kids that they dont have to be older to realize how people live and where our food comes from, becasue they will see kids their age doing things to learn about them. You can also use this as an intro into doing somthing like this yourself, you can have your class build a garden and teach them about science, and then when somthing grows you can talk about math, by cooking what they grew.