[Lapg] 4th grade soils curriculum?

[Joan Stevens]

Hey all, I'm working on a project for Common Vision (a radical fruit tree 
planting program for schools
 - 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." 



- Bill Mollison 
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