More to See

Ted Education talks.

Move. Learn. Eat. Movies by Rick Meriki

Chalking Geometry Iona

Video Story Inspiration

http://www.theculturist.com/home/share-your-visual-life-the-sartorialist.html

http://vimeo.com/thepanicroom/videos/sort:date

Simple Machines

This is a good website to explore for our study of Simple Machines.

Environmental Graffiti

This website Environmental Graffiti, always has interesting articles. Please read the description of each link before you click to see if it's appropriate for you to look at.

Great Books-Shared Inquiry

Ask, ask, ask!  Please check some of these videos from the Great Books Foundation about how they teach kids to support their ideas by citing evidence, i.e. examples from the text. Shared Inquiry is a method that encourages critical thinking and analysis. See how a discussion goes here. Good example of a formal school discussion. The children are quite young, and the book is simple, but the class is pulling the book apart and getting at what the story means by actively participating and listening. You're welcome to click on the other links as well, of course!

Biology - Classifying Wackadoodles

We've been sniffing around this subject for awhile, taxonomy, classification, kingdoms, phylums etc. Let's do something about it! I've got a little Creature Classification exercise for us to try from Real Science for Kids.

In the next few weeks, let's try this out...we've got some new terms* to learn before we can tackle this though. Where exactly would a photosynthetic sun-basking shark with green chlorophyll-filled fins (to convert sunlight to energy) fit on a classification chart?!

 Mnemonic of the day for Order of Taxonomy:
*DOMAIN, Kingdom, Phyllum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species
 Did King Phillip Cry Out "For Goodness Sakes!"?

Geology and Art-Sculpture

Those carved marble statues at the Victoria and Albert Museum we saw on the weekend were amazing to see in real life, not just in books. Here is a Saylor art course video on carving marble to check out, from the quarry through the process of it becoming a statue.

Here is someone carving with traditional tools, click here.