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

Tree rings can be used as proxy data to determine the past climate in a local area. Tree rings show evidence of droughts, wet seasons, forest fires, and even earthquakes. Tree rings can not be used alone as evidence for past climate. Students need to understand that no one object holds the key to the debate. It is the correlation of all these key pieces of evidence that builds our understanding of past climate events. This has been an evolving lesson I have been developing f

Whew, this year has gotten away from me! I started teaching in a new district and surprise, surprise, I was starting from scratch with the curriculum! The district made the change from teaching solely physical science at 9th grade to a more integrated approach. While, I was super excited to be in on the ground floor and have control over the scope and sequence of the curriculum, it has been an overwhelming experience. I have been so mentally exhausted that I put writing about