For those of you who have been following my podcasts, you know that my husband and I are both geologists. I no longer practice geology and now I primarily teach high school. My husband however is a Professional Geologist in the State of New Hampshire and I “consult” off the record on some of his projects. Two geologists in the family is an interesting dynamic, geologists on a whole are a rather unique breed. When we graduated from UNH we had under 6 other students who were gr

Hexagonal thinking is not a new concept. I learned about it six or seven years ago. I spent most of "covid" digitizing my lessons to be completed as interactive slides and pictures and more or less pushed my hexagonal thinking tasks to the side. Now, that we are back to full in-person learning I find my students are more engaged with hands-on non-digital tasks. Whether this is a "covid-effect" of remote learning I am not entirely sure. What I do know is I have brought back so