Wednesday, March 30, 2022

Cherry Blossom Season

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Washington, D.C. is a beautiful city in the spring...especially when the Cherry Blossoms pop. I've been fortunate enough over the years ...
Saturday, March 26, 2022

Earth Hour 2022 Tonight: Sat., March 26th 8:30-9:30 pm

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With #ShapeOurFuture as the 2022 theme, Earth Hour is tonight. By tuning off lights along with other nonessential lights from 8:30-9:30 pm t...
Wednesday, March 23, 2022

Innovation Through Sketchnoting

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Sketchnoting is one of those "things" that have cropped up over the last several years, no doubt due to the visual nature of socia...
Saturday, March 19, 2022

A Wealth of Women's History this Month

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As we march the past halfway point of March, there's so much to take note of this Women's History Month. Resources abound in all dir...
Wednesday, March 16, 2022

Earth Hour 2022: March 26th @ 8:30pm

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10 days from now it will be the 16th annual Earth Hour. What started in 2007 as a local event in Sydney, Australia has now become a worldwid...
Sunday, March 13, 2022

A Pandemic 2 Year Anniversary

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This weekend marks the 2 year anniversary when everything shut down in 2020 thanks to the growing numbers of Covid 19.  As with any mileston...
Wednesday, March 9, 2022

Pausing to Ponder the Class of 2030

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When I was doing my spin through all of the various Google Arts and Culture Experiments , I happened on on of them that caused me to take pa...
Saturday, March 5, 2022

Harvard's Askwith Education Forum: How K-12 Schools Can Take Action on Climate Change

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A colleague pointed me in the direction of Harvard's Askwith Education Forum's webinar: How K-12 Schools Can Take Action on Climate ...
Wednesday, March 2, 2022

Environmental Good News

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There's a lot going on in the world right now. Especially as we are approaching the 2 year mark of major global impact from the pandemic...
Saturday, February 26, 2022

The Tree-mendous Benefits to Trees

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One of the things I personally like about Facebook is that I follow a number of environmental and edtech sites. Given that, I am exposed to ...
Wednesday, February 23, 2022

Google Arts & Culture Experiments

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I've been doing some investigating around Google Arts & Culture . Not surprising given it's connection to Google, there is defin...
Saturday, February 19, 2022

The Power of Music & Nature

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This is one of the many beautiful stories that came out of the pandemic. I didn't hear about it at the time, but read about it in Jane G...
Wednesday, February 16, 2022

The Six Americas

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When I was reading Katherine Hayhoe's book Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World , I was str...
Saturday, February 12, 2022

Nature-Inspired Valentine's Day

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"Love, exciting and new....Come aboard, we're expecting you...."  The theme song that fills my brain every Valentine's Day...
Wednesday, February 9, 2022

A Trio of Messengers of Hope

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This fall and winter among the slew of books I've been reading, I read the three of these books--all of which made a powerful impact on ...
Saturday, February 5, 2022

Women in Innovation

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The Smithsonian is known for its exceptional level of education--whether the museums in Washington, DC or their online counterparts. They kn...

It's Olympics Season

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Olympic frenzy has hit the world! It is Olympics Season! This year's Winter Olympics are in Beijing and underway, running from February ...
Wednesday, February 2, 2022

An Evening With Walter Isaacson

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When you are a bit of an info-junkie, love at first sight comes in funny ways. It struck me in the pre-pandemic days when I was gifted a tic...
Saturday, January 29, 2022

Urban Forests

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What's a way to improve biodiversity and stockpile some carbon? Create compact mini-forests in urban areas by planting native species cl...
Wednesday, January 26, 2022

Ken Burns In the Classroom

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Ken Burns has become synonymous with historical documentaries. No wonder, given he's been writing, directing, producing, and filming the...
Saturday, January 22, 2022

Ryan Reynolds: The Environmentalist

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My mom loves Ryan Reynolds. Not in a weird way, but in a cute, her-grandkids-like-to-tease-her way, where she could possibly watch "The...
Wednesday, January 19, 2022

TED's Think Like A Coder Series

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I've been working on some coding activities with my younger elementary students at school. For my very youngest students, we use Bee-bot...
Saturday, January 15, 2022

If Trash Could Talk

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We all want a voice, because in having one, then we can be heard. Archaeologists have long since been the historical voice through their arc...