While researching ideas about inquiry-based learning and curriculum, I came across a tool that can be used to help manage ideas, stories and questions. Charles Pearce, in an article called “Nurturing Inquiry”, suggested that teachers in classrooms us a “wonder board” to capture all of the students ideas, questions and stories so that these could  Read more »

Connecting ideas to people and people to ideas. People are fascinated with the past, whether it is their own family history, the history of their town, the Civil War, Lewis and Clark, or the Anasazi. There is a mystery and nostalgia associated with the past that captivates the imagination as well as the intellect-the desire  Read more »