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Defying the Big Box
Way, way back in the Summer of 1979, I was adventuring through Anchorage, Alaska after living for many moons in a tiny Athabaskan village 40 miles south of the Arctic Circle. It was early in the morning and the city was just waking up. I was trying to catch a ride to the [...]
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Re-searching America
If you go back about five hundred years to pre-colonial times, one of the most astounding features is the cultural diversity amongst the indigenous peoples of this land we now call America. Consider just the North American continent for a moment. There were hundreds of culturally and linguistically diverse tribal regions. [...]
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Tres Tamboras – We all need a Center
In 1981 I lived in a small village in the Barlovento region of Venezuela called Caño Negro. It was founded by West African people who had escaped from Spanish slaveholders into the jungle interior of the Venezuelan Amazon. It became a vibrant and thriving community. The rhythms, stories, symbol and song of these proud [...]
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New Geography Workshop Primer
How we map the world reflects our world view. Introducing geography to elementary age school children is a brilliant opportunity to explore the world through the lens of many world views, many view points. The inspiration behind the song New Geography is to promote exploration of the 21st century ‘human-o-sphere’ through a kaleidoscope of [...]
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Essential Constitution Lesson Plans - Redefining ‘We the People’
What better way to engage with the constitution than through a simple, moving and thought-provoking song? Here are constitution lesson plans your students will not soon forget!
(By the way - To get all this as a free lesson plan, go here.)
The song is ‘We the People’, based on the preamble to the constitution. It was [...]
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Constitution Lesson Inspired by Song!
This is a constitution lesson your students will value for the rest of their lives.
The United States Constitution begins with the inspired words - ‘We the People’. Oh yes, let’s re-define who we mean by ‘the People’. But let’s also look at the fact that the pronoun ‘We’ is all-inclusive. It says, hey, there is [...]
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