{"id":2158,"date":"2015-01-10T16:03:07","date_gmt":"2015-01-10T21:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.coolgreenschools.org\/?p=2158"},"modified":"2016-09-13T14:02:03","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T18:02:03","slug":"wholey-cow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.coolgreenschools.org\/?p=2158","title":{"rendered":"Whole(y) Cow!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/new.coolgreenschools.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/cow-learning-chart.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/new.coolgreenschools.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/cow-learning-chart.jpg\" alt=\"cow-learning-chart by . \" width=\"1200\" height=\"831\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2150\" data-wp-pid=\"2150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.coolgreenschools.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/cow-learning-chart.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/new.coolgreenschools.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/cow-learning-chart-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/new.coolgreenschools.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/cow-learning-chart-1024x709.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/new.coolgreenschools.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/cow-learning-chart-800x554.jpg 800w, https:\/\/new.coolgreenschools.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/cow-learning-chart-1155x800.jpg 1155w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/>  After years of divide and fail, can we reunite learning with STEM and project based learning?<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Study a package of hamburger as long as you like, you will never understand a cow.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So why do we keep dividing learning into bite sized bits, cut out of context, meaning and purpose?<br \/>\nCan memorizing artificial labels on a lifeless, two dimensional chart help us understand or improve the cow?<br \/>\nOr does this simply enable us to divide and label our students in the same way we divided and labeled the cow?<\/p>\n<p>Imagine instead that we challenged students to create a better cow.  This forces them to understand \u201ccow\u201d and \u201cbetter\u201d in all dimensions.<br \/>\nWhat environments and foods strengthen cows?  How do we balance our needs and responsibilities to cows?                                                       What diets and choices can keep us healthy?  <\/p>\n<p>STEM and project based learning reconstitutes learning, naturally combining and testing our understanding of all subjects.<br \/>\nThis learning is rich and alive.  It challenges students to understand interacting systems as they search for solutions.<br \/>\nThis is how we have always produced stronger cows and more milk.<br \/>\nIt can also produce innovative students ready to solve problems in their world.<\/p>\n<p>If you are brave enough to admit that you don\u2019t have every answer; that there can be more than one solution,                                                 embark at once upon this learning adventure with your students.<br \/>\n<strong>You will be amazed at how some of them will spark alive when they are offered a chance to touch and transform their world.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After years of divide and fail, can we reunite learning with STEM and project based learning? Study a package of hamburger as long as you like, you will never understand a cow. So why do we keep dividing learning into bite sized bits, cut out of context, meaning and purpose? Can memorizing artificial labels on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[216,1,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-cool-green-schools-com","category-multimedia","category-stem-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.coolgreenschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.coolgreenschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.coolgreenschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.coolgreenschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.coolgreenschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2158"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/new.coolgreenschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2168,"href":"https:\/\/new.coolgreenschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158\/revisions\/2168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.coolgreenschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.coolgreenschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.coolgreenschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}