My 9 year old has been working to finish a model that both his grandpa and dad gave up on. He has made more progress than the other two combined. Third generations’s the charm? Confession: I totally gave up on
Busy Fingers
Becoming History
Teachers as Performers? Yup! That’s how we roll here. Listen to what NPR has to say about it: Channeling Springsteen We know how to have fun, but is active learning better than traditional classrooms? Listen and decide for yourself.
How to Inspire Great Interactive Projects
Our countertop is currently full of hot glue and bottle caps, and surrounded by smiles. That doesn’t sound like a math project does it? It is, I promise. It has taken my boy two entire summers to collect those caps,
The Purpose of All Those Projects
Make a model of this, make a video of that, create your own thing-a-ma-jig, and turn it in on time. Why??? Why would either a student or a teacher want to add one more time consuming activity to an