Read the Full Post Below Reaching for the Stars This post was featured on the Skype Social Good blog. How can I connect concepts my students are learning about to real world experiences? That’s the question that teachers ponder every day. It’s easy to throw a...
Read the Full Post Below Shake, Rattle, and Roll Within the last few years, you’ve no doubt seen the devastation and destruction that can be caused by earthquakes. New Zealand, Haiti, Japan, China, Chile, and the Philippines are all places that have...
Back in April, Mr. Avery had traveled out to Arizona as part of a trip for LearnZillion While there, he had the opportunity to experience the Education Innovation Summit. He was able to meet people who run many of the websites and apps that we use such as Edmodo and...
We’ve recently been learning all about the layers of Earth. We’ve talked a bit about the theory of plate tectonics and how most earthquakes usually happen along fault boundaries, the place where two tectonic plates meet. Just as we were wrapping up our...
We’ve been learning all about Earth recently. We’ve talked a lot about the different layers of Earth. We’ve talked all about what it’s made of. We’ve talked about the causes of earthquakes and volcanoes. As we wrap that up, we’ll be...
So today we took a field trip to Yellowstone National Park. Ok, well, maybe not exactly. That would be quite a long trip to head out to Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana. So instead, we had a park ranger come to us, through Skype. Mike Coonan was kind enough to take some...
