‘GUEST VOICES ON BOARD’ Archives
Resources, Resources from Becky Rupp
Resources, Resources from Becky Rupp The Teaching Company The Virginia-based Teaching Company sells college-level courses on DVD and audio CD in the fields of science, mathematics, business and economics, history (ancient, medieval, and modern), religion, philosophy, fine arts, music, and literature and language. All are taught by professors at [...]
Teaching to the Whole Brain By Michele Wolf
Teaching to the Whole Brain By Michele Wolf Welcome to my left brain. It is my language center and it adores the written word. It loves to read, write, and think in words. The left brain is well supported in traditional educational approaches: textbooks, lectures, worksheets, essays, reports, and written tests. The halls of [...]
Fifty Dangerous Things – and Gourds: Resources by Becky Rupp
Fifty Dangerous Things and Gourds: Resources by Becky Rupp Fifty Dangerous Things (You Should Let Your Children Do) Gever Tulley’s Fifty Dangerous Things (You Should Let Your Children Do) (Tinkering Unlimited, 2009) is a lot less terrifying than it sounds. (In fact, a lot of it, compared to some of the dangerous things my kids decided to do, [...]
Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: Resources for Special Days By Becky Rupp
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill recently created by a leaking well in the Gulf of Mexico – now a blob of goo three times the size of Rhode Island that threatens Gulf fisheries, the Florida Keys, and the Louisiana coast – is hardly special in any positive sense of the world, but its prominence in the news gives us all a good opportunity to [...]
You Have to Be Taught to Hate By Mary McCarthy
You Have to Be Taught to Hate By Mary McCarthy Help with my persuasive essay against homeschooling? So for school I have to do a persuasive essay against homeschooling. (I do NOT think homeschooling is a good idea.) … My three arguments for why homeschooling is bad are: -It isolates children from the real world -Parents may not be as [...]
