Give Me A Lever…

I am halfway through a week-long teaching experience at a local nature center.  My teaching partner and I have 42 of our kids outside, experiencing learning through experiencing nature up close.  As expected, it snowed on the first day, rained on the second and third (Did you check the date up there?  Classic Michigan weather!), but the spirits were not dampened, rather enlivened; our learning not frozen, but thawed from the traditional classroom.  I suppose I am feeling influenced by the videos on my prior post and the realization that there can be amazing alternatives to our current education structures.

Archimedes apparently said, “Give me a long enough lever and a place to stand, and I can move the world.”  I now say, “Give me a 90-acre park and a laptop and I can teach a kid anything!”