THANKING MOTHER NATURE

Before sharing their research of the finite resources, students felt the need to thank MOTHER NATURE for what all she has given us.....

I shared this poem with students......

Thanking mother nature…

-Thank you for the life giving water resting
 in the oceans and rivers,
 flying in the skies, a blessing as rain refreshing and 
life giving to the land 
and all its inhabitants.

-Thank you for those laws that make it fly
 as steam,
 descend as rain,
 run as rivers,
 stand as glaciers and ice - valuable as life.

-Thanks for all those laws and 
phenomenons
 in this worldly system 
that make it useful
 for the bodily vehicle that our "selves" drive 
everyday 
and rest every night.

-What ever you call the "source" -
 either
 God or Nature
 or any other good name 
- think, realize and be thankful.

-Thanking for helping to lower cholesterol 
to those 
used to fight malaria -
- originally derived from natural sources.

-Thanking nature for everything I see,
 touch, smell, hear, 
eat and drink  always
 from my heart.

-Power of the ebb and flow 
of the tides.
 It all has such a significant
 meaning
 whether it's scientific or just plain
 ole personal.

-Thanking for the gravity 
 that helps in keeping your feet
 on the ground.

-Water sources. Rivers, oceans,
 ponds, streams,
 your body needs this
 and should be replenished. 

"To forget how to dig the earth and to 
tend the soil is to forget ourselves".

--Mohandas K. Gandhi   

List of finite resources that my children made:

soil, coal, gas, crude oil, forests, rock, water, minerals