Hey all, I'm working on a project for Common Vision (a radical fruit tree planting program for schools
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http://www.commonvision.org/) to write curriculum for 4th grade classes that would precede, include, and then follow up Common Visions visit to help maintain the orchards.
What motivates me on this project are having the ability to provide teachers with easy to implement ways to get the kids outside and excited about dirt and supporting Common Vision (a fantastic organization).
I have some standards-based ideas jotted down but I am up against 1) time constraints (takes me a long time to create the resources) and 2) not knowing any 4th graders (or 4th grade teachers) to know if the ideas are level appropriate.
If any of you would like to help I could really use some support.
Please email me!
Thanks,
Joan
"There is one, and only one, solution, and we have almost no time to try it. We must turn all our resources to repairing the natural world,and train all our young people to help. They want to.
We need to give them this last chance to create forests, soils, clean waters, clean energies, secure communities,stable regions, and to know how to do it from hands-on experience"
"...the greatest change we need to make is from consumption to production, even if on a small scale, in our own gardens. If only 10% of us do this, there is enough for everyone.
Hence the futility of revolutionaries who have no gardens, who depend on the very system they attack, and who produce words and bullets, not food and shelter."