This morning I went to John Lewis Middle School to watch a class taught by Brian Greene. 4 days a week he teaches botany. On Fridays, he teaches the kids how to cook using plants they’ve grown in the school’s gardens.
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That is awesome, and very underrated. The appreciate for nature, the life skill development, and the ownership they get to feel using what they have nurtured is quite the trifecta. Just awesome.
They also use school kids to (science I suppose) to help release certain bugs into the environment to get rid of noxious weeds. Kids can help out alot using learning tools. Just needs teachers with initiative
We need a lot more Brian Greenes! Helping young people learn how to sustain ourselves and our planet while learning science will lead to a far better world than posting the (ignored by those who want them posted) Ten Commandments.
perfect!
Had a science teacher who taught how to grow plants under lights. Funny, it stayed with me from 7th grade to adult when I bought my first greenhouse-was very successful career too! Now 68, retired, but STILL grow plants under lights all winter long. Thanks Mr. B!
Sadly, we aren't allowed to eat the food we grow in our classes. What amazing opportunities for the students and adults involved. We need more of these programs!
Thanks. He works in transition services helping those special needs students that are graduating high school move onto whatever their next goal might be. One of the skills that they all work on regardless of other goals is being able to shop and prepare food for themselves. This dovetails nicely.
Our school doesn’t have Mr. Greene, but we have Farmer John and our science teacher Ms Anders, who have children grow food and plants, flowers, and teachers who do cooking club with the food. 😎,
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That sounds like a blast! Thanks for sharing this info. Helped me to step back into the things I hold most dear. Went out and brushed my horses. They said thanks!!
That sounds great. Wish there were more of what I would call "self-sufficiency programs" like that. Teaching kids where their food comes from and how much can be used as food is an all-round useful skill for LIFE!!. 🤩
This is what education should look like - creative & practical. My favorite science teacher in middle school was like this. He put a weather station on the (flat) roof outside our classroom window and each day a different kid would read the instruments & report. We loved it! (and him)
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I've got a mate called Chris Wood who's a carpenter and there was a fish and chip shop where I lived as a kid called 'Roe & Sons'! 😂 ❤️ Although the most famous one in recent years is obviously the fastest man on earth Usain BOLT! ❤️😂
That sounds like a unique and engaging approach to education, but I'm skeptical about the effectiveness of dedicating only one day to cooking and wish they focused more on core subjects.
The gardens and greenhouse were put in students and are run by a master gardener, Evelyn, who donates her time. What they can’t grow Mr Greene buys out of his own pocket. They get additional support from Pilot Light, a charity run by a group of Chicago chefs to create curricula centered in food.
I watched 2 7th grade classes
rotate in, prep, cook and eat a meal from food they had grown. They learned teamwork, culinary skills, nutrition and a little botany. Mr Greene says kids who are bored and disengaged in classrooms light up when they come into his greenhouse/kitchen.
I teach a writing class with female inmates at my small-town county jail. This past year, the inmates who are in the therapy program and are eligible for outside activities were allowed to start a garden. They were so excited and proud and would talk about it every time I was there for my class.
My sister and I were after-school 'latchkey kids,' and so 7th grade was around the same time I started fixing us stove-warmed snacks like canned soup and such, when we got home.
I’m a middle school science teacher. We swabbed our mouths to see what will grow on a petri dish. We will dissect eyeballs soon. My 8th graders read a real study about the impact of civil war on elephant populations in Mozambique for a test today. Fun, challenging work makes all the difference!
There are really good people in this world. They don’t have power and they’re not famous but they get up and feed people, in all kinds of ways. It is a misfortune that the richest and most powerful among us have other priorities. But do not think they are the only people that matter now.
Don't think he isn't famous. Just not in the traditional sense. He is making a difference. An important one. My dad was a principal. I never realized how many lives he touched until he died. The outpouring was overwhelming.
I've just looked them up and they have a menu of what is being used each Friday - some very unusual things, so great that children will get to eat something that maybe they've never tried before👍
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Had a science teacher who taught how to grow plants under lights. Funny, it stayed with me from 7th grade to adult when I bought my first greenhouse-was very successful career too! Now 68, retired, but STILL grow plants under lights all winter long. Thanks Mr. B!
Maybe this guy https://www.chicagogourmet.org/page/BrianGreen#:~:text=Brian%20Greene%20is%20chef%20and,pickled%20goods%20on%20their%20menus.?
…many just want to misinform.
I strongly suspect that you already knew that.
What a teacher like that shares with young folks sticks in the mind and heart
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Thanks for sharing.
#farmlife
rotate in, prep, cook and eat a meal from food they had grown. They learned teamwork, culinary skills, nutrition and a little botany. Mr Greene says kids who are bored and disengaged in classrooms light up when they come into his greenhouse/kitchen.
https://pilotlightchefs.org/
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More of this, please.