Edutopia

The Edible School Yard and A Night in the Global Village

Edutopia

The “Edible School Yard” at Martin Luther King Middle School teaches kids the basics of ecology and how to cooperate to do projects together. The school proves that a kid who is brilliant in science or math may not necessarily be great in the garden.
The Edible Garden was established as a way to improve school lunch programs. The kids grow their own food in the garden so they want to cook it and eat it. They don’t think of it as school but they know what they are learning.
It is a benefit to have a program that is so basic to teach kids things that used to be learned at home. It is a way to show them a sense of ownership in what they are learning as a group and as an individual.

A “Night in the in the Global Village” is a program designed to learn about hunger, poverty and sanitation that exists in other countries around the world. It is one thing to talk about it but another thing to live it so the students experience living in the conditions with the resources that are common to people in other countries for a night in the global village.

The students learned the independence of the living conditions along with the struggles and it taught them to think about it and open their eyes to what they are lucky to be blessed with in America compared to how other people survive in other countries around the world.