A garden-based learning project that serves to make connections across the disciplines of education, history, environmental studies, and service- learning.
The Whittier College & La Serna High School Garden Collaboration is a garden-based learning project that serves to make connections across the disciplines of education, history, environmental studies, and service- learning. For the next 13 weeks, Whittier College students of the “Issues in Urban Education” and “North American Environmental History” class will visit and work with the students of La
10/31/2013
Need a refresher on composting? We got you covered.
http://indianapublicmedia.org/eartheats/composting-101-tips-tricks-creating-healthy-heap/
Earth Eats - Indiana Public Media | Composting 101: Tips And Tricks For Creating A Healthy Heap Why does the compost pile smell? How often do I turn it? How do I know it's garden-ready? This composting primer is handy for beginners and experts alike.
We are part of a bigger movement.
http://www.babble.com/babble-voices/grow-your-own/how-gardens-are-transforming-american-schools/increase-kids-fruit-and-vegetable-consumption/
10/25/2013
As we have learned, gardens cannot only be a place of sustenance but also a learning laboratory. Do not miss out on the opportunity to engage your ELL students in the garden and help build their vocabulary.
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/vocabulary-instruction-teaching-tips-rebecca-alber?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=blog-vocab-tips-repost
Doing it Differently: Tips for Teaching Vocabulary Every Monday, my seventh grade English teacher would have us copy a list of 25 words she'd written on the board. We'd then look up the dictionary definitions and copy those down. For homework, we'd re
10/17/2013
Eating seasonal foods is one step you can take towards a sustainable diet. Here's an infographic that breaks it down for you.
http://chasingdelicious.com/kitchen-101-produce/
Chasing Delicious | Kitchen 101: Fruits, Vegetables & Herbs The Produce posters are now available for purchase at The Sweet Tooth Paper Goods Company. Ten percent of Kitchen 101 poster sale profits will go towards supporting education in the culinary arts.
10/15/2013
Take out a pen and piece of paper! Here are 3 easy rules for growing food in cold weather.
http://modernfarmer.com/2013/10/endless-summer-farm-greenhouse/
Endless Summer: How To Farm In Cold Weather - Modern Farmer Modern Farmer talks to Jack Algiere, Four Season Farm Director at Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture in upstate New York, about cold-weather crops.
10/14/2013
Mark Keppel High School is among many schools who have adopted an open-access policy for college-level Advanced Placement (AP) courses, where spots for the classes are distributed among students based on a computer lottery.
Supporters argue "equal access as an educational right". While critics claim this new open-access process is "pushing too many unprepared students into AP classes", leading to "higher exam failure rates over the last decade and a persistent achievement gap among races".
Can you think of any benefits or disadvantages to the open-access policy for AP courses?
http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-ap-classes-20131007,0,538955.story?page=1
More schools opening Advanced Placement courses to all students Alex Wong, a junior at Mark Keppel High School in Alhambra, is working hard for admission to an elite college. His resume boasts nearly straight A's in rigorous classes, a summer program experience at Stanford University , an Eagle Scout project, club soccer, school choir.
10/08/2013
“The question, ‘Do students get a better education in charter schools?’ is complicated,” -Ross Danis, President and CEO of Newark Trust for Education
"..a great school is a great school regardless of its classification."
http://www.takepart.com/article/2013/04/25/charter-schools-are-they-better-public-schools?cmpid=wfs-fb
Charter Schools vs. Public: Is One Better Than the Other? New data shows just how well kids are doing in many of the nation’s charter schools.
10/08/2013
10/04/2013
Happy Belated National Kale Day!
Did you know 1 cup of chopped kale has 134% of your recommended daily intake of vitamin C, while a medium orange has 113% of the daily C requirement?
Here are some interesting facts about one of the veggies we will be planting this semester.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/30/kale-facts-nutrition-info_n_3671210.html
6 Things You Don't Know About Kale Our love of kale is no secret. But even though it's the hottest vegetable on the scene, many of its more healthful attributes remain a mystery to the general public.
10/02/2013
Save money. Eat healthier. It's easy as 1,2,3..
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/20/grow-vegeables-food-scraps_n_2909396.html =2238363
10 Foods You're Wasting Your Money On We all have our ways of pinching pennies. For some of us, it's at the grocery store.
10/01/2013
"Rigged Game" by David Garity. This young poet expresses what he believes is wrong with our current ESL education system in his performance at the 2013 National Poetry Slam competition.
http://www.upworthy.com/teaching-children-in-this-awful-way-is-like-helping-a-person-who-is-on-fire-by-drowning-them
Teaching Children In This Awful Way Is Like Helping A Person Who Is On Fire By Drowning Them Let's have a frank discussion about how we are currently making it impossible for kids to learn, shall we?
10/01/2013