Classroom Connection: Society of Forgotten Explorers

So this is a real thing.  Cool website.   I love the idea of exploration.  There are some yung youtubers that explore places through games.  My 19 years son and I watch episodes of Jetlag together.  They post their efforts to mitigate their carbon footprint.  It gets me thinking about the consequences of exploration.  That changes that come come with exchange.  Should we explore?  Are we doing more harm than good.  They stories create more good to celebrate.  

Well, I've just gone down the rabbit hole of this amazing website, and I'm truly bummed I missed the event! I think about how the cumulative efforts, ideas, and sharing of theories have propelled us to make new discoveries. If people don't share their theories, we can't accept them, disprove them, or move them forward.

That said, it's critical to highlight the voices and contributions that lead to discoveries. I can't think of many instances where a solitary individual made a discovery. Collective learning made it happen.

I had a meeting run over before this PD session, and I regret missing it! 

This is going to be a great resource for unit 2 of 1200. There are enough examples to assign them in partners and make it into a project. The dream!

How do you plan to use this Will Nash ? Are you going to have students research the explorers and present? Something else? Love to hear how other teachers turn research into project outcomes!

 Will Nash Meaghan Mihalic Eric Schulz Such a cool org, and a good way to engage students in thinking about scale and consequences of exploration. You can find the video recording on our PD blog