Wednesday, October 31, 2018

Happy Halloween 2018

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In thinking about what to post here for Halloween this year, I ran across this picture, and it seemed to speak to me the loudest.  Mi...
Saturday, October 27, 2018

Project Learning Tree: Halloween STEM Challenges

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With Halloween just around the corner, perhaps Project Learning Tree is the place to go to get some class-time, kid-time, party-time, or cr...
Wednesday, October 24, 2018

A Return to Roofs: Replacing Ours!

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It was a dark and stormy night. Sounds like a typical beginning to a Halloween-themed story. Unfortunately, it's not just a story, it...
Saturday, October 20, 2018

Green Roofs

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Once, a long time ago (about 7 years), I helped to build a green roof, on the roof of the greenest school in the world. Unfortunately,  abo...
Wednesday, October 17, 2018

More on Digital Citizenship during #DigCitWeek 2018

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With it being Digital Citizenship Week , the conversation continues. Let's start with ISTE's "Citizenship in the Digital Age...
Saturday, October 13, 2018

Digital Citizenship Week: October 15-19

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Two weeks ago we started our digital citizenship series with our 5th graders--an annual event that occurs seemingly earlier and earlier eve...
Wednesday, October 10, 2018

7 Billion Dreams. 1 Planet. Consume With Care.

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No words in this video (which is now over 3 years old), but it certainly does make an impact, leaving you thinking. What will your impact ...
Saturday, October 6, 2018

Little Free Libraries

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When we were out in Silicon Valley, doing my little scavenger hunt of technology's historic sites , almost right across the street from ...
Wednesday, October 3, 2018

Stone & Soil & A World Map to Scale

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This definitely falls in the category of places I'd love to visit one day!  Of course, Denmark isn't quite in my neighborhood. ...
Saturday, September 29, 2018

Tempestry: A Temperature Tapestry

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I'm very crafty, but I don't knit or a crochet. But I'm very visual & love the use of the yarn arts to tell a story. It ...
Wednesday, September 26, 2018

Kraft Heinz's Sustainability Goals for Packaging

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2025 is surprisingly not that far away, when you think of it in the grand scheme of things. 7 years. That's virtually around the corne...
Saturday, September 22, 2018

A Mount Everest-Sized Trash Problem

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When we think of Mount Everest, we think of bold adventurers, daring men and women with amazing stamina, and undeniable perseverance, stren...
Wednesday, September 19, 2018

Thames Plastic Project: Future Dust

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With environmentalism, we talk a lot about footprints:  carbon footprint, plastic footprint. water footprint. It all relates to usage... and...
Saturday, September 15, 2018

Plant Snap App

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  While we were in California this summer , my husband, who has a far greener thumb than I, became curious about the many plants that wer...
Wednesday, September 12, 2018

Hometown Hot, Over The Years

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It's no surprise to anyone that great content comes from the New York Times. This September, they created an interesting interactive ent...
Saturday, September 8, 2018

1000 Hours Outside: Revisited

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At the start of the summer, I wrote about 1000 Hours Outside , an environmental trend to get yourself outdoors and in nature that may hours ...
Wednesday, September 5, 2018

The Summer Sendoff & Back To School

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As a teacher, the end of summer is always a cross between bittersweet and melancholy, yet with the hint of excitement to come. It's a...
Saturday, September 1, 2018

Climate Change Vacation Education

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If you've been paying any attention at all, you know the last handful of posts have been highlighting different elements of my summer tr...
Wednesday, August 29, 2018

The Dynamic Duo of Tech Museums: The Tech Museum of Innovation & The Computer History Museum

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I've talked about Dynamic Duo's before, both here and here . I think I may have landed the "edtech-ie-est" duo of the...
Saturday, August 25, 2018

California Scavenger Hunts

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No matter where we were (Silicon Valley, San Francisco, or Napa), one of the major themes of our California trip was a variation on the ...