Mother Nature Wants You!

NY Botanical Garden & Bronx Green-up:Grow Your Own Food.

Mother Nature’s Children?

Do you think it’s important to be connected to Nature?

If so, why?

Work in groups of 4. Choose one person to write down your ideas.

Michelle Obama presentsthe Award to Garden

New York Botanical Gardenwins award with Bronx Green-up

Teaching materials generated by Lesson-Writer:

Karen Washingtonexplains Bronx Green-up

Read Karen’s explanation. In groups of 4, discuss her ideas: Do you think that growing your own food gives you “power and dignity”?

Karen Washington explains Bronx Green-up

By yourself, read Karen’s ideas.

Do you agree that growing your own food gives us “dignity and power”?

In groups of 4, discuss the positives and negatives of growing your own food.

Describe Picture 1

Describe Picture 2

Describe Picture 3

Describe Picture 4

Describe Picture 5

Describe Picture 6

http://www.nybg.org/green_up/images.php

U Iowa, pronunciation practice

Practice making the “sh” sound, as in “national,” and “nourishing.”

http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/english/frameset.html

Contrast this with the “ch” sound, as in “cultures,” and “chop.”

http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/english/frameset.html

U Iowa “sh”

So Much Is Possible!

Dear Mimi & Ana,

Thanks for helping make our work easier!

Marta