Middle and High School … from a Montessori Point of View
Well we watched Jurassic Park last night and concluded it with a discussion about the issues underlying the movie, the same way we’ve been studying analyzing the issues underlying texts. Discrimination based on race and obesity came up first (the fat guy and the black people “always” die), but I was able to coax a … Continue reading “Jurassic Park: Web of Issues”
One of the largest natural disasters in history, the change in the landscape from the Pakistani flooding is astounding when viewed from space. Images are from the area around Jacobabad in Pakistan. [googleMap name=”Pakistani Sindh” description=”Flooding” width=”450″ height=”400″ mapzoom=”6″ mousewheel=”false” directions_to=”false”]Jacobabad[/googleMap]
I spent an hour yesterday censoring Larry Gronick’s, “Cartoon History of the Universe“. I always feel a little dirty after doing it, but the section on the origins of life, particularly the comparison of the relative advantages of asexual and sexual reproduction, does go a little too far with the puns (in my opinion at … Continue reading “Censorship!”
This year the theme is life. My central organizing structure is the timeline of life on Earth. I plan to link all of the discussions of taxonomy, phylogeny and genetics to this timeline over the course of the year. The timeline above will be the first lesson. As with these things the trick is deciding … Continue reading “Timeline of life”
Wind patterns over the North Atlantic Ocean had a huge effect on the colonization and history of the Americas because, after all, all they had were sailing ships. The circular, clockwise winds meant that it was easiest to sail south and west from Europe, and when you did, the first place you arrived at in … Continue reading “A sailing game that explores the trans-Atlantic triangular trade”