Well, it’s a New Year, and I am back on my kick of trying to better organize my blog. Once again, I tried to break my posts down into reading, writing, math, science, social studies…. The problem (or good news) is that when you are teaching authentically, you really can’t and don’t want to separate out the academic subjects that way.
Even if you are teaching high school math, you are teaching reading, writing, science, social studies, etc., if you are teaching authentically. Make it real and make it count. And if you make it real and make it count, you are not teaching in isolation.
My husband and I were on a road trip recently, and I noticed many trucks on the road. We live in Central Pennsylvania and we are a cross-through from New York to every point south and west. So, we get allot of trucks on our highways. Tons! Too many – ok my fault, as I am the best on-line shopping customer in Central Pennsylvania, so according to my husband, those trucks were all headed to our house…
Watching all of the trucks, I was thinking about the supply chain problems and what a great authentic project that would be…as a social studies project – truck drivers and their jobs. But, it is also math – the cost of shipping by truck, the cost of the supply chain backlog. And it is science – perhaps inventing a more efficient truck, or self-driving truck. And it is reading – reading about the supply chain issues. And writing – writing about possible solutions.
I also am not going to try to sort my blog into projects by different age groups. The supply chain project would be perfect for Kindergarten – why there is a shortage of some items in stores and on-line. And it is perfect up through college – why there is a shortage of some items in stores and on-line.
So, I will start off the New Year by not messing with my blog, and just wishing everyone a happy and authentic 2022!
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