A Teacher’s Thoughts

Following the previous post, it is time to look to the future. Which way to go? Here are some ideas:

Tackle some questions regarding climate change using wikis perhaps. I have done units like this before using a socratic seminar. I saw an interesting post on Julie Lindsay’s blog about the fishbowl technique used by Karl Fisch and some students in Colorado. Amazing. I think I might want to try this.

Our local school to career organization is sponsoring a science and technology fair. This could make a good jumping off point for some independent learning. We have been waiting to launch students with their own blogs this year (really we shouldn’t have waited but here we are mid-year already!) and these could serve as a great place to record their ideas and thoughts as they research. After reading some posts coming from the Science Bloggers Conference in North Carolina over the weekend I only feel more strongly about moving this idea forward.

Water resources
Hard not to want to take advantage of the great local resources for studying water resources. While I would want to focus on current issues and future problems, this will also allow for some good historical geology to meet some state standards.

Spend some more time with those folks at the ISS07 project. Basically, I need to build this into the schedule. I will ask the kids how to make this work since they are interested.

And the big question. How to tie together climate, climate change, water resources and water ecology and our local community? Oh, and finish it before school ends.