Earlier this year Mike Fitzgerald and his fifth grade geography class (aka the Geo-Squirts) created a Natural Disasters/Severe Weather Investigation unit and dedicated it to their friends at the Claret School, Quezon City, the Philippines.  This week the project was featured on St. Louis’ Fox 2 News: To structure the experience, the unit was comprised [...]

Natural selection, the process by which heritable traits become more common in a population over generations, is a cornerstone of biology.  This vitally important concept is often difficult for students to fully grasp, however,  because it is abstract and cannot be observed in the laboratory.  Consequently, students’ understanding of natural selection is often vocabulary-driven at [...]

Several of our middle school math courses, including algebra-geometry and CMP, have used Scratch to teach fundamental programming concepts.  Sergio González, a math teacher working at the Luis de Camoens school in Ceuta, Spain, recently updated and translated our six day algebra-geometry unit into Spanish, created video tutorials for some of the lessons, and assembled [...]