progress

A mix of computer labs and in-class computer/ipad/netbook/ipod touch use got us through the first round of research on the six topics we settled on. Today we started sharing facts, while evaluating each fact on a four point scale. Great discussions so far. It's great to see students teaching each other. Two new disasters came up today in a discussion about Yellowstone: nuclear war and asteroid impact. I would have liked to distribute the "disaster preparation" topic amongst the groups, but we could only come up with five likely disasters to hit the northwest, and we needed six topics. Perhaps next time "unlikely disasters" could be a topic, and include those two.