In a reading group today, I was helping two boys read through an article about floods. The gist of their synthesizing was that the Army Corp of Engineers had to make a hard decision, to either flood 130,000 acres of farmland that included 200 homes, or allow the flood to overtake a town of 3,000 residents. I must have presented the dilemma five different ways, emphasizing points not written in the article to help them infer and make an informed decision; things like, towns are harder to rebuild than farmland, towns have businesses that would be ruined, people work in towns, etc.
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Walt,
My bother is a soil scientist and professor at the Univ. of Minn. He would agree with your boys as he knows how hard it is to save soil and to rebuild it. His life work has been to teach and train young people to value the soil and to help preserve as it provides what we eat and needs our help to be here for many generations to come.
Young minds do think so well with the right guidance. Keep it up.
James
What great fodder that I can share with these kids tomorrow…anything that makes their learning come alive, that’s great teaching. Thanks for sharing James!
James said it so well that I hardly have a comment to make. However, as a life long “steward of the earth”, as the Bible calls us to be, and an early “tree hugger”, as my Boy Scout leaders taught me to pack out anything I packed in and not use more wood than a cook fidre required or cut trees when there was plenty of dead wood available, my first thought on reading the same article was, how unthinking for the future. A town can be rebuilt, businesses and buildings can be rebuilt, but 130,000 acres of farmland that can feed so many more than just 3,000 people and that cannot be “rebuilt” even over a number of years – now that would be really short-sighted. Well, despite many good things the Corps of Engineers has done over the years (TVA still is pretty good), dikes and sea walls in New Orleans and other short vision projects, I was not too surprised at their decision.
Hang in there students and keep the teachers and other adults aware of the bigger pictures in all areas of life !