“The students really enjoyed the resources and enjoyed learning about farm life experiences. This was particularly good for our students as they are from a highly populated urban school.”
What were some of the values that the people your students interviewed talked about?
Gaining a work ethic, sense of community and for some returning to the land after leaving as a young person.
“Although I used only a small portion of the unit's resources, the activities and information I used were very useful and interesting from a science and social studies perspective.”
What were some of the values that the people your students interviewed talked about?
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“A great resource with some nice discussion points arising from it. Although it would perhaps be better suited to an urban school, I still found some good ways of using the resources in my own rural school setting and had links right across the Social Studies spectrum (especially with regard to building empathy through a study of the world's '6 degrees of separation'.”
What were some of the values that the people your students interviewed talked about?
The girls noted that many people said that hard work was a value they treasured.
“Our girls really enjoyed the research aspect of Grass roots and were surprised by the whole concept of 6 degrees of separation! We had an afternoon tea where we invited family members and, where possible, the people who had been interviewed.”
What were some of the values that the people your students interviewed talked about?
Hard work beings reward. Honesty is the best policy.There's always an opportunity to learn new things
“My class absolutely loved making the comparisons between rural and city life.”
