Ned’s Keeper

I just spent a few minutes watching a re-watching the latest TED Talks video. I find the topic incredibly relevant since that is the topic of next years Green 180 project… “Trees.” Kamal Meattle is talking more about the short statured ones ie. plants, that we should grow indoors to create more oxygen. I started thinking about my classroom and the classrooms around mine. Very few have plants in them. Most of them have a small table plant that takes little maintenance and can be ignored over the long holidays. All of my classroom plants are terrariums or are feaux lifesize plants that I created to show lifecycles, but not much is available in the way of real ones. Why hadn’t I thought about that before. As teachers, we always take our kids outside to get fresh air. After watching this video though, I feel like I may head on down to the local garden center and see if I can find myself a few of these three garden varieties to plant right in my classroom. I will even introduce it as a class project so that the kids will understand their purpose. I teach kinder-5, so some of my kids just will not get any of the TED Talks video and the rest will not see a whole lot of excitement in it, but I can definitely see the excitement in it. My classroom is room CO2. How ironic is that? So I can’t get rid of all of the carbon dioxide, but I can always add a little more of the oxygen, right! My kids may even perk up a little… as if any of them have ever found their technology class stale and boring. I am not sure that is possible!