Edible Playgrounds
Watch the video and see what you think of this project which aims to encourage children to grow food to eat, and won a prize at the RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show 2008. Nick Williams-Ellis designed the garden.
Can you answer the questions below, and where you see ………. can you supply the endings of incomplete sentences?
1 He asks if the children have ever seen a strawberry ….?
2 He tells the boy who identifies an artichoke plant that he is absolutely correct. He says (in other words) ……………..?
3 The designer would like every school to encourage a garden of some description – …………………
4 Nick Williams-Ellis says children’s perception of space is ……………..
5 Can you give 2 sensory experiences which are mentioned?
6 Little cress heads are a brilliant way of ‘getting children started on planting things’ – of (in other words) ………………..
7 The cress comes up ……………….
8 Dr Simon Thornton-Wood* says that it is difficult to introduce horticulture in a modern school environment – it is (in other words) ……………
9 …. ‘but so many children benefit – there is no ……………………. ‘
10 “Anyone know ……………. ?”
11 The cereals have a beautiful ……………….
12 From sweetcorn you get ………..
13 Why has the garden designer introduced raised beds?
14 What do they have the freedom to do? To ………….
15 What does the designer demonstrate to the children?
16 How does Nick Ellis describe what the worms do?
17 Why does he hope to inspire more children, schools and teachers to encourage children to have a go at growing things? “Because there is …..
18 What has been the effect of every pilot project the RHS has done in schools?
19 The berry bed is full of acid soil ……………..
20 What seem to have been the highlights of the show for Nick Williams-Ellis?
*Dr Simon Thornton-Wood is the Director of Science and Learning at the Royal Horticultural Society.