International Project

**Joan White joanw@garden.org>**

National Gardening Association is collaborating with Technoserve on a
project in Nicaragua. Enhance your science, social studies or gardening
project curricula with learning activities that help students consider the
vital roles of gardening and agriculture throughout the world.

Making Connections Through Gardening, an interdisciplinary education
program for students in grades 5-8, will connect 25 schools from Nicaragua
with 50 schools across the U.S.  Students will learn about the Nicaraguan
students' cultural, gardening, and nutritional habits.  They will also gain
an awareness of the environmental issues faced by people living in
Nicaragua.  Participants will have access to curriculum activities on the
National Gardening Association's Web site.

Your class can become one of the 50 Ambassador clubs that comminicate with
students in a Nicaraguan school.  What you need to participate:  Internet
access, an e-mail address, an interest in global environmental issues,
knowledge of basic Spanish (or contact with community/school member that
knows the language).  Interested?  Please send the following information to
Joan White, Program Director at joanw@garden.org with name, address, e-mail
address, school name, class size, grade level.  Please don't forget to send
me this info.

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