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Recommended for: Grades 1-4

Resource: A Garden Grows in Brooklyn

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In this Wild TV segment, a garden in Brooklyn brings a community together. Community gardens become “green spaces” in the city. The garden in this segment is a sanctuary in the neighborhood that offers peace in the midst of the city’s hustle and bustle. The garden offers people a place to share their lives with their neighbors. Many vacant lots have the potential to be developed into green spaces where neighbors can grow vegetables, relax with their neighbors and escape the fast pace of the city life for a little while.

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Teachers' Domain, A Garden Grows in Brooklyn, published August 26, 2008, retrieved on ,
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The following Frame, Focus and Follow-up suggestions are best suited for elementary school students using this video in an English language arts or social studies lesson. Be sure to modify the questions to meet your students' instructional needs.

What is Frame, Focus and Follow-up?

Frame(ELA) Why do you think people plant gardens? What is their reason or motivation for doing all the work it takes to plan, plant, care for, and finally harvest what has grown in the garden?

Focus (ELA) Why do the people in this neighborhood plant and care for vegetables in their community garden?

Frame (SS) We all belong to many different kinds of groups. What groups do you belong to? What do you have in common with the people in this group (i.e., classroom, group of friends, neighborhood)?

Focus (SS) How are the people in this community unified? What brings them together and how does it bring them together?