Category: Instructional Design

This was always one of my favorite days. We didn’t do it enough. Basically, each classroom(or grade level) in the school drew the name of a country from a hat. Classes were required to learn about that country and prepare an immersive, cultural classroom experience for International Studies Day, aka […]

Every, once in a while I come across ideas which would make for great student learning. Here is one of those ideas… I have been wanting to write about this ancient center of learning for quite some time. I believe that in order to inspire our students, we should teach […]

We were in Livingston, Montana, a couple of years ago. After cooking for ourselves all week in a cabin which sat high on a mountain ridge of the Paradise Valley, we decided to traipse into town for some “real food.” Mainly, we were looking for a good place to have […]

I didn’t know much about the Armenian genocide until I watched The Promise(2016) several years ago. This weekend, I rewatched it again. It has a 91% audience approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. From the years 1914-1923, between 600,000 and 1.5 million Armenians were systemically murdered. This event is often not […]

First and foremost, I feel like we are corrupting a beautiful resource(computers) in our modern educational environments. How is that? We are far too often using computers primarily to gather immense amounts of student testing data. Instead, we need to be teaching students how use technology as a powerful resource […]

This is kind of a short post today. I am an avid movie watcher. You also know me as a conservative Christian. So, when I see a great movie about a conservative American, I jump at the chance to watch it. Ben Carson is most recently known for his work […]

Yad Vashem is the Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem, Israel. It bears solemn witness to the consequences of human hatred. It also bears witness to the Jewish people who survived and to those who helped them survive. But mostly is serves as an immovable reminder that the Jewish people faced an […]

I stumbled upon Randall Carlson and Graham Hancock when browsing Joe Rogan episodes. They are (secular?) scientists who believe that a catastrophic event wiped out much of civilization, and humanity had to rebuild after the world was remade by flood waters. They have been ridiculed for saying this. Well, I […]

I grow a combination of hybrid and heirloom vegetables. Hybrids are a cross between two varieties which can help plants be stronger, more productive, and disease resistant. Hybrids rely on cross pollination and are not genetically modified. Heirlooms are fun to grow, but they can suffer greatly from disease. They […]

There is not better time in human history to find great seed collections for your garden. I recommend starting with simply varieties. KISS (keep it simple stupid) is how we need to garden. If it gets complicated, folks will lose interest, and then you will end up with a big […]