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Students will be able to communicate their ideas with each other and with other students and decision makers around the globe: their art, their invention ideas, their social commentary, their questions, their methods of approaching challenges, from little to big problems. As teachers, let’s collaborate with others already experimenting with creative lesson plans to empower our students and their ideas.

This post was inspired by a prompt from “Ode to the Future.” I heard about it from this video, which explains the importance of ultrasound gel:

You can scroll around in “Ode to the Future” and check out other people’s visions for the future, and add your own. I had trouble adding my own, so I wrote about it here instead. But if you’re interested in checking it out, here’s the link:

https://www.emdgroup.com/en/visions/?skipintro

A few days ago, torrential rain melted a foot of snow and swelled the Mill River to heights not seen since Hurricane Irene. In places, the river rose above its banks and ran across roads into farm fields. A dead giant sycamore on the bank of the river succumbed to deluge, tipping across the stream forming a silver bridge, walled by a massive rootball.

Looking at the massive fallen tree, and the way the water pooled in the hole where the roots had been and how easily the trunk might trap future debris traveling downriver against its massive span, I thought of how rivers shape trees, and trees in turn shape rivers. I should not neglect to mention another river engineer, the beaver, had also had a paw and tooth involved in the placement of the tree. The base of the dead sycamore had been chewed near all-the-way-around.

In a walk through the neighborhood, I came across a local author who has written about the Mill River. I told him about the tree. It’s where it should be, he said. I took this to mean that fallen trees belong in the river too, and should not be removed. They provide habitat for river creatures. And they have their say about the flow of the river.

http://fntrails.org/wp-content/uploads/GreatTreeBikeTour2020/Brochure-TreeTour-9×12-V2-2020.pdf