Edutopia

A Night in Global Village: Heifer Ranch by Gearge Lucus was the first video I watched. It is the story about people help the less fortunate. They allow kids to take a walk in someone else's shoes. They also donate livestock to impoverished families and raises awareness about impoverished and hungry families. These students and teachers take are shown what the living conditions are like in other countries. They are separated into groups and given rights to one resource in which they must exchange for other things they need. They also receive other good such as matches and food. They undergo many challenges such as making their own food and some student lost the use of their hand. One girl explained that this trip showed her how to live outside of her comfort zone and shows what other people go though in their lives.

The second video I watched on Itunes was The Edible Schoolyard put on by Martin Luther King Junior Middle School in Berkeley, California. It is about students in 6Th grade at this school who spend their first period outside planting and gardening. The class uses this garden as a hand on experience when teaching math, social studies, and science. The teachers are hired to make the garden the center of teaching. The students are taught to work together with their other classmates to get the jobs done, most of them probably wouldn't get done without teamwork. The founder of the Edible Schoolyard, Alice Waters, started to the garden to cut down on costs. I am truly jealous of these students.