Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Using Instagram as a Learning Tool
For the past month, I’ve been trying to integrate Instagram into our fifth grade classroom. While on a beach run over Spring Break, I ran past a bunch of sand dunes, and my first thought was how I wanted to show my fifth graders. We had been learning about weathering, erosion, and deposition, and the…
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Bringing Back Snail Mail
I love writing letters, I love mailing letters, and I love receiving letters. Maybe it’s because my top two love languages are gifts and words of affirmation, but I just love everything about it, the magic of the whole postal system. Write something, as long or as short as you want to, stick a stamp on…
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Starting a Classroom: Book Recommendations
Soon enough, I will have a classroom of my own. I only have a month left of student teaching, and will hopefully have a job secured soon after that. Looking ahead to my own classroom and teaching career, there is a lot to do to prepare. This week, I began a “book recommendation binder,” in which…
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Conflict in Literature
Today in ELA I taught a fun and successful lesson on the 4 types of conflict found in literature: man v. man, man v. self, man v. nature, and man v. society. I opened the lesson with a read aloud of two of my favorite story books, Spoon, and It’s a Book. Spoon is an adorable story and…
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Ecosystem Mobiles and Conversation Cards
This past week in science, I led our students in the construction of ecosystem mobiles. We were learning interdependency- the way living and non-living things interact within an ecosystem. I front loaded the kids with a lot of information on the first day, using these notes from Teachers Pay Teachers. They spent two days working on…
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