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Sing With Spirit
It’s always a real eye opener what becomes important to children working together toward a performance.
We recently completed a 12 week program with 2nd and 3rd grade students culminating in a performance entitled Home Planet Earth. The whole project is chock full to the brim with wisdoms and lessons to do with the planet’s [...]
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Rhythm Ball
We grew up playing lots of Basketball. Everybody had a hoop in their driveway or access to one nearby. Soccer hadn’t caught on yet in the USA. So it was Football, Basketball, Baseball and Hockey. Of those four, the only one that had any kind of compelling rhythm was Basketball.
There was school ball and [...]
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A Day Outside
It is summertime in the northern hemisphere!
We enter now the ease and expansion of the summer months. What better time to reconnect with the beauty and bounty of the earth; to go adventuring and exploring; to romp and play; to smell, touch, taste, hear and see a bit of the wild side of living; [...]
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Teaching Sustainability - Part Three
In 1987 the United Nations World Commission on Environment and Development defined SUSTAINABILITY as “development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”.
If only our grandparents and great grandparents had operated with this definition in their hearts and minds!
We live in [...]
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Teaching Sustainability - Part Two
Give historical context:
For millennia humans lived sustainably - up until the onset of the industrial/technological revolution.
For many thousand years
We made everything by hand
Then came industrialization
Marching through the land
Now we could make and do things
Much easier and faster
No one thought this revolution
Would lead to such disaster
The demand for resources increased
With the demands of growing populations
Robbing the [...]
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Teaching Sustainability -Part One
We live in a time now rife with contradictions.
Never before have we had the capability of mass self destruction on one hand; and at the same time stand at the threshold of such extraordinary breakthroughs in the human potential.
Never before have we faced environmental degradation and biological devastation on a global catastrophic scale on [...]
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Riddle of the Planets
Both hot and cold, slow and fast
Quicksilver planet traveling past
What planet am I ?
Sister planet, hot and gassy
Morning and evening star
Backward spin, east to west
Beautiful sight you are
What planet am I ?
Watery planet, Mother Blue
Cradle of life for me and you
Lunar tides, aurora glow
How does your garden grow?
What planet am I ?
Warrior red marching by
Polar [...]
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The Wonder of Water - Part Three
Here comes a snowy blizzard of watery wonders:
Water is the marriage of two of the most combustible elements in the Universe, HYDROGEN and OXYGEN - H2O! The configuration of these building blocks (two hydrogens and one oxygen) produces a molecule with almost magical properties:
Water is called the UNIVERSAL SOLVENT. Think about it. Water [...]
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The Wonder of Water - Part Two
Ninety five per cent of the fertilized human egg is water!
Seventy per cent of the adult human body is water!
Seventy per cent of the earth’s surface is water!
In light of these watery facts, the word ‘physical’ has a different connotation. That is, we are more fluid than solid, right? Human physiology is a fluid [...]
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The Wonder of Water - Part One
When asking a group of second graders, “What is the most important thing about this amazing stuff called water?” One little guy shouted out, “It’s wet!”
A little girl said, “Water’s in everything.” And another girl exclaimed, “Water makes life!”
Wow! What better starters could a teacher ask for? Including the one little boy’s answer - [...]
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