Category: Classroom Teaching, Critical Exploration, Investigations

Strategies for Ancient (and Other) History Explorations (Part I)

(Developing Characters) Here at Critical Explorers, we’ve temporarily paused work on publishing to the website the remaining sections of the Slavery and Reconstruction resources in order to take advantage of an opportunity further to develop our soon-to-be-published Ancient Greece investigation. …

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Category: Forum

New research that supports the value of critical exploration

In the article below Alison Gopnik captures a truth that reflects well on Critical Exploration.  My question for Gopnik and the researchers she cites would be, if the research reflects this truth for preschoolers and their curriculum, why would the same …

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Category: Forum

Meier shoutout to The Having of Wonderful Ideas

“The heart of being an educated person lies precisely in the nuances that separate our choices. Let’s be cautious about aligning everything into a seamless garment” (Deb Meier,  2011). In this week’s Bridging Differences, Deborah Meier wrote briefly of Eleanor’s …

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Category: Forum

Resources for Younger Learners

I’m always on the hunt for beautiful, open-ended materials for my classroom, both for free play and for CE. I teach older toddlers (two years turning three) in a full-time children’s center. What have you stumbled across lately that really caught …

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