Green Boot Camp Sustainable GardenEcosystem

Lesson 1 - Engage• What did you eat last night? • Where did that food come from? • How did it get there?• How did it get  prepared and packaged?• How did it end up on your table?• Homework: Go home tonight and look at where

any of the ingredients came from. See if you can find more than 3 sources that were not local.

• References: • Ridiculous Packaging (CCSE)• Next Steps (CCSE)

Good to Know• Each year from 2005-2011, food imports have

grown by an average of 10 percent, while imports of pharmaceutical products have increased at nearly 13 percent and device imports have grown more than 10 percent. Approximately 50 percent of fresh fruits and 20 percent of fresh vegetables, as well as 80 percent of the seafood consumed in America come from abroad. Similarly, more than 80 percent of the active pharmaceutical ingredients used to make medicines are imported.

Lesson 2: Explore / Explain• Share items from home.• Show examples of foods that come from other

countries. • Mangoes, Pineapples, Bananas, Persimmons are almost

exclusively grown overseas.

• Show examples of packaging, discuss refrigeration and packing and shipping. (Ridiculous Packaging)

• Talk about impact of locally grown produce, or locally produced products (jobs, money, infrastructure, etc)

Resource

• Food Miles, by the NRDC

• http://food-hub.org/files/resources/Food%20Miles.pdf• Today, the typical American prepared meal contains,

ingredients from at least five countries outside the United States.

• Imports by airplane have a substantial impact on global warming pollution. In 2005, the import of fruits, nuts, and vegetables into California by airplane released more than 70,000 tons of CO2, which is equivalent to more than 12,000 cars on the road.

Lesson 3: Explore / Explain• Share idea of growing produce in a energy

efficient, recyclable manner• Introduce materials for creating recycled

newspaper 'pots' that they can plant at school or at home. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gTyAmH1LAk&feature=related

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tp0GyBE1WQI

Instructions1. Take a large sheet of newspaper and fold it in half and

use your smooth edge to crease the fold2. Fold across in half and then in half again, running the

smooth edge over the crease. Turn so open edge is facing you.

3. Open to center of pages and fold edges down into a triangle

4. Fold in the edges to the center crease, like a paper airplane.

5. Fold in again towards the middle, smoothing the creases.6. Spin the paper and repeat on other side7. Flip paper over and fold to the center crease, and fold

again towards the middle, smoothing creases as you go.8. Fold down the top edges to the crease9. Open the plant pot and fold the flaps at the top edge to

the inside or the outside.

Lesson 4 - Elaborate• Plant vegetables that can be locally grown in the

containers.• Liz’s story

Lesson 4 - Elaborate• Seed Folks, by Paul

Fleischman

• A diverse community in Cleveland, OH

• Community Growth• Morale• Community support

Lesson 6 - Explore • Prepare an area in the schoolyard for a garden

while the plants sprout.• Once the plants sprout plant them in the garden

Lesson 7: Extend• Build rain barrels• You remember how…

Lesson 8: Extend• Do a celebratory rain dance

How To A Rain Dance

1. Never do a rain dance on a hill. 2. Make sure you have a lot of room so you don't run into anything.3. Spin around in clockwise circles.4. Make up your own rain chant.  It should be rythmical and easy to say fast.5. Yell your rain chant while spinning around in circles.6. If you are trying to get rid of rain, spin in counterclockwise circles and say your chant backwards.

Links to:History and Culture of Rain Dances                                                Expert PageNative American Rain Dances