The Edible Schoolyard podcast is about an outdoor classroom at Martin Luther King middle school in Berkeley, California. Students spend time planting, harvesting, and eating organic food from their large, edible schoolyard garden everyday. Teachers incorporate the schoolyard into their classes such as social studies, math, science, everyday life. They try to make the garden the center of teaching. According to the podcast, they are learning basics of ecology, photosynthesis, cycling of matter, resilience of an ecosystem, cooperate and do projects together, and build community. The students also learn to cook the food they grow during school as part of school lunch. The kids sometimes forget it is even school, but at the same time the kids are all learning vital and fundamental information.
When I first saw the assignment of listening to "The Edible Podcast", I did not really know what to think. I was curious to see what it was about. It was interesting to see that this middle school thought creatively in basing most of the their learning off of a large edible schoolyard. I have never heard of such a thing but anytime I hear something different like this, that the students have a fun and easy time learning quality information, I am interested. Maybe when I am a teacher I can incorporate something similar into my classes.
The second podcast was "A Night in the Global Village". The voice of the podcast was quite hard to hear actually. The podcast itself was about a program designed to help kids know what it feels like to walk in someone else's shoes. The program focuses mostly on hunger and poverity as well as sustainable development. These kids in the podcast are from Denver, Colorado and travel to Perryville, Arkansas. This is where the Global Village is located. Students are split into groups and experienced living conditions in the following countries: Thailand, Zimbabwe, Urban, Guatemala, and Appalachain and Urban refugee camps. All but the refugee camps are able to receive one resource, such as food or water as well as a bucket of some other resources they can use.
I think it this podcast was cool because I think it is important to see how others live. Sometimes kids take for granted what they have, but at the same time do not understand what others have and do not have. The global village seems like it could humble kids. I do not know if it would be all that possible to incorporate this into my classroom as a physical education teacher but hopefully in other classes it would be.
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Perhaps you could research how do other athletes in other countries live and train. Something similar could be set up as the "Global Village".
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