Life, Education, and Learning....

Project Title and Standards

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How is farming and gardening used in our culture and in other cultures?

Standards -

Culturally-knowledgeable students are able to actively participate in various cultural environments.

Students who meet this cultural standard are able to:

perform subsistence activities in ways that are appropriate to local cultural traditions;
make constructive contributions to the governance of their community and the well-being of their family;
attain a healthy lifestyle through which they are able to maintain their own social, emotional, physical, intellectual and spiritual well-being;
enter into and function effectively in a variety of cultural settings.

Culturally-knowledgeable students are able to engage effectively in learning activities that are based on traditional ways of knowing and learning.

Students who meet this cultural standard are able to:

acquire in-depth cultural knowledge through active participation and meaningful interaction with Elders;
participate in and make constructive contributions to the learning activities associated with a traditional camp environment;
interact with Elders in a loving and respectful way that demonstrates an appreciation of their role as culture-bearers and educators in the community;
gather oral and written history information from the local community and provide an appropriate interpretation of its cultural meaning and significance;
identify and utilize appropriate sources of cultural knowledge to find solutions to everyday problems;
engage in a realistic self-assessment to identify strengths and needs and make appropriate decisions to enhance life skills.

Culturally-knowledgeable students demonstrate an awareness and appreciation of the relationships and processes of interaction of all elements in the world around them.

Students who meet this cultural standard are able to:

recognize and build upon the inter-relationships that exist among the spiritual, natural and human realms in the world around them, as reflected in their own cultural traditions and beliefs as well as those of others;
understand the ecology and geography of the bioregion they inhabit;
demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between world view and the way knowledge is formed and used;
determine how ideas and concepts from one knowledge system relate to those derived from other knowledge systems;
recognize how and why cultures change over time;
anticipate the changes that occur when different cultural systems come in contact with one another;
determine how cultural values and beliefs influence the interaction of people from different cultural backgrounds;
identify and appreciate who they are and their place in the world.

Composting for Kids

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http://www.kidsrecycle.org/composting.php

This is a great link to ideas on how to teach kids to compost and recycle. This site also covers ideas for schools and how they can start compost piles.

Gardening for Kids Themes

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http://www.cln.org/themes/gardening.html

Gardening Lesson Plans Link for grades 3-8

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http://www.huntington.org/huntingtonlibrary.aspx?id=1710

Prezi Slideshow

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http://prezi.com/vo64zqrzuzyb/urban-farming-is-awesome/

Slide Show of Urban Gardening from Around the World

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Urban Farming Around The World

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Urban Farming Around the World - The second part of the video

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Urban Farming Around the World

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In Class Activity Idea

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Have students create a minature urban garden using containers and place in window. See attached link about container gardens in the classroom. http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/4216970/Farming_and_Gardening_

A Wordle Developed for the Project using words that are our focus !! So fun!! Would be a great project for kids to do as an art project.

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An Annotated List of websites featuring the Inquiry Project Farming

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Annotated List – Inquiry Project “Farming”

Carr, D. K. (2011, May 23). Egyptian farming. Retrieved from http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/egypt/economy/farming.htm

This site contains information on Egyptian Farming from around 10,000 BC and lists the crops and farming practices from that time. The information has key words highlighted that can be clicked on and then a video explaining the video appears and plays. The site has limited information but could be used to show the differences and likenesses of farming from then to now. The videos included on the site could be quite useful, but the information is still limited and should only be used in addition to other materials.

Eddkeman, H. (n.d.). Family around the world . Retrieved from http://www.disknet.com/indiana_biolab/farms.htm

This website provides links and information on farms from all around the world listed by country, then state or province. Some of the links on the site are very informative and helpful with farming information in different areas but unfortunately some of the links no longer work.

Farm animals. (2011). Retrieved from http://www.educationworld.com/a_sites/sites050.shtml

The Education World website provides information on farming from around the world and the country and is specifically designed for teachers. The site also has links to other farming websites that have been side marked as great for teachers. The site does seem to lean more toward animal farming though and teaching children about different farm animals.

Fieldbug. (2011, September 07). 2011 harvest [Web log message]. Retrieved from http://fieldbug.wordpress.com/

This blog has multiple posts on farming life and includes some great pictures as well as information. The posts are extremely reader friendly and interesting as they are 4^th generation farmers who started with a homestead and have grown over the past one hundred years. The farm that the blog is based on is out of Canada. There are also several links that that the blog offers that lead to other farm posts and information.

Kids farm. (2009). Retrieved from http://www.kidsfarm.com/wheredo.htm

This website contains quite a bit of information that is specifically formatted toward children. They have really great pictures and information. They also have the website broken down into interest areas which makes it easier for children and adults to seek out specific areas such as fruit, vegetables, cows, pigs, and more.

Ross, B. (2000). Farms around the world: emu week and the emu country hoedown. Retrieved from http://www.4teachers.org/testimony/ross/

This site offers information that has been obtained by teachers on information they have wanted for their classrooms and projects then published here. There are multiple different articles written by teachers on farming and how they have integrated the information into the classroom, including some of their students sample work. The site does not contain a lot of actual farming information but does have some really interesting points on how farming information can be turned into lessons and fun student projects.

Urban farming. (2011). Retrieved from http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1913033_1915377,00.html

This site offers some really great photographs of urban farming around the world and would be great to include into lessons for students. The photos show all kinds of urban farm settings and could be used to illustrate what urban farming is and how it could be implemented even in the smallest of spaces

Super Neat Website for Kids

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This site isn't about gardening or farming but is very neat and interactive. I found it doing a project for my health class and absolutely loved how their approach to some health issues. It's geared toward kids and is alot of fun for adults too. I encourage you to check it out, just in case you might need it for another project. http://yucky.discovery.com/

A Fun Polling Tech Tool

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This is a site where you can design a poll for students or the public. The poll can even be answered by texts. This would be a really neat application for students with cell phones capable of texting. I have attached the site and poll of gardening/ farming poll I created for my project.

http://www.polleverywhere.com/survey/MkMla5JY_

Pirate Pad Project Application

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http://piratepad.net/wlSM9y5sI5

A very neat site for students to list information in real time with other students. This would be a great group site for students to work on thier project at.

A Fun Animation using Goanimate.com

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A fun video to get students started on a project involving farming and gardening.

GoAnimate.com: Urban Farming and Gardening by Jjhudson

Like it? Create your own at GoAnimate.com. It's free and fun!

Quiz Creator!!

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http://www.gotoquiz.com/urban_gardening

This is a great website to create quizzes that students could take online either at school or at home.

Wall Wisher Website Posting

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http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/urbangarden

This is a great way to get kids involved with a project using technology and it would also be extremely useful in communicating with parents about the students project.

Blabberize Animation Farming Introduction

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A great resource of Other websites on gardening and farming!!

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This is a fabulous link to other sites where there is alot of information regarding gardening and farming. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.
http://gardeninglaunchpad.com/kids.html

Welcome !!!!

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Hi!! Welcome to my blog! I am a student at UAA and am in the process of creating an Inquiry Project for students as a project for one of my Educational classes at UAA. For my project I have chose to create an inquirt project based around farming and gardening, here and around the world. I will have information and some wonderful links posted in the next week.