Guest Blogger Heather Sullivan‘s post from the Gaocheng Astronomical Observatory in the Heneng Province, China. Heather has created a science lesson and quiz. If you complete the 3 questions by posting a comment to her blog, you will be placed in a random drawing for a special prize from China. As a science teacher I [...]
Because I have the gift of time this summer, I chose to follow the Discovery Student Adventures Travel in China. This post focuses on the teachers on the trip who are posting to the DSA China blog. I realize that sifting through the many posts begs time when most of us are either in school [...]
Guest blogger Rita Mortensen‘s repost from her Discovery Student Adventures China blog. Mortensen is posting from Luoyang-Dengfeng. We have had such a wonderful experience and have seen so many breath taking and historical sights over the past ten days, however I will have to admit that interacting with the local merchants has been a really [...]
Guest blogger Heather Sullivan, reposted from her Discovery Student Adventures China blog. Image from Heather’s China Pics. Heather poses an interesting question, and after reading her post, please share your thoughts. (Sorry, Heather, for not posting this one sooner–very thought-provoking, as usual). Sunday, August 9, 2009 Just a quick post about something that’s been on [...]
Guest Blogger Brett Harvey, reposted from his Discovery Student Adventures China blog post. Harvey’s post calls into question several provocative questions, not the least of which is the parents’ dilemma: how do they do it? Are these children happy, and will the beauty of the land and the people still remain a mystery? Enjoy Harvey’s [...]
John Hughes and I were very close. He never knew that and I didn’t find that out until half way through our lives. We were born in the same year, he went to high school in the district next to the one I taught in (he even used our then recently closed campus as a [...]
Humor This is my favorite Back-to-School TV commercial. Disclaimer: I do not work for, nor do I receive any compensation from the Staples company or its subsidiaries, unless you can count the sales taxes collected from their stores in our state. It just made me laugh and with all the financial turmoil in our schools, [...]
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