I have completed the Service Learning with barely interacting with kids (my major is Elementary Education), but I will go during the following Saturdays so that I can enjoy and experience that engaging combination: kids and garden. I totally believe that every school should have a garden (as California did order in 1995), since gardening has a large amounts of benefits for the kids.
Working on a garden can make you consider how much effort needs success, the importance of the little details in life, the relationship with the environment and nature, and many factors that we could easily name here.
But, how can we integrate gardening in schools? I remember that we didn't have a garden in our school until I was 15 (I did my whole education -3 trough 18- in the same school), but I discovered that apart from little kids, problematic students also work there, as part of their redemption.
Besides, we went (and they still go) every year to farm-schools for a couple of days. These places are usually hostels in the middle of nature, with animals and garden, so that kids can experience diverse activities like making candles, feeding animals, planting fruits, interacting with animals, just to name a few.
I also found this two interesting contributions:
What is your idea for the future?
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