Edible School and Night in a Global Villiage

These videos were very interesting. I thought it so very neat that some schools were able to give their students such an up close and real life experience such as these did. Some students just truly cant imagine how hard it is for others in foreign countries. The edible school was very resourceful in creating a garden the way they did. In using the compost to make their soil that is a good way to teach kids a way to recycle. I did not understand them linking this to social studies however and not science. When they were talking about the different transformations water goes through and the different roles that effect the plants growth they had the children answering questions they had learned in class. The children even got to harvest and eat some of the fruits and vegetables from the class garden. The children seem to be more interested and more involved when they got to physically reap the benefits from their hard work. The film about the children pretending to be different tribes and bartering for food and water, that was very inventive. The children seemed to have really enjoyed the activity and learned alot from the trip. They understood what people have to go through sometimes in order to survive day to day. These teachers are doing a very good job to find new and inventive ways to get children motivated to learn and participate willingly in their education.