Lisa Durff's Blog – February 2011 Archive (2)

Biomes Need Your Help!

Save one bookmark dealing with one biome to Diigo for 7th grade -> http://ning.it/dlrUPJ

The biomes are:
    * tundra
    * taiga
    * temperate deciduous forest
    * scrub forest (called chaparral in California)
    * grassland
    * desert
    * tropical rain forest
    * temperate rain forest

Added by Lisa Durff on February 10, 2011 at 7:35pm — No Comments

Organised Minds

“The culturally-constructed spheres of knowledge must bear some kind of relation to the kinds of brains and minds that human beings have, and the ways that those brains and minds grow and develop in different cultural settings”

(Gardner, 2003)

Does the way we organize our society affect the way our brains are organized?

Gardner, H. (2003, April 21). Multiple intelligences after 20 years. Paper presented to the American Educational Research…

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Added by Lisa Durff on February 3, 2011 at 9:45pm — No Comments