Summary: The Destruction Of The River In New Mexico

At the beginning of the chapter, the writer focused on the threat of the river and various ways children, parents and teachers can prevent destruction of the river in New Mexico. Meanwhile, the author suggests ways to help students connect with their own knowledge, creativity, sensitivity to divergent cultural backgrounds, interdisciplinary, and humanity. The writer only connection with children and nature at the beginning of the chapter deals with ways to keep the river clean. However, the author claims, “community members with unique personal experience and professional expertise are invited to share their stories with students and teachers using the River curriculum.” Additionally, staying in the woods is not the only a form of nature, listening

Nonetheless the children did not spend numerous amounts of time by themselves embracing the true meaning and understanding the beauty of nature “river”, it seems as if they were controlled with rules, obligation, and regulation to learn how to prevent massive destruction of the riverbanks in New Mexico. Also, most people in the communities see the river now as meaningless because of the pollution and disaster that occurs in the river. Once the children intend to experience the natural beauty around the riverbank it just happens that chaos and anger are all the children could interact with nature. Therefore, the children should experience the beauty of riverbanks that has not been polluted and the ones that have and compare and contrast together that would have helped the children rather than just allowing the children to explore polluted surroundings. This is one notion, I disagree with the