_ The public was reluctant to try the new fasteners until the United Sates military decided to use zippers on some uniforms during World War I. The zipper, she found out, was patented in 1893 by Whitcomb Judson of Chicago. However, zippers were once considered high-tech in the fashion industry, and learning about these devices was marcie's next goal. patented in 1955, Velcro is widely used today instead of other fasteners, such as zippers. The new material was called "Velcro", a name that combines the French word for velvet (velours) and hook (crochet). Adapting the idea from nature, de Mestral developed a pair of nylon tapes that fastened together. During an outing in the 1940s, de Mestral started thinking about the burrs that stuck to his socks. One material of special interest to the entire class was Velcro In her research, Marcie discovered that the idea for Velcro is attributed to Georges de Mestral, a Swiss hiker and engineer. After a lively discussion in home economics class, Marcie wanted to learn more about the history of fabrics, clothes, and clothing parts. Thanks for finding me here and staying true to your wonderful thought-provoking comments.For each sentence in the following paragraph, identify the italicized phrase as an adjective phrase, an adverb phrase, a participial phrase, a gerund phrase, an infinitive phrase, or an appositive phrase. Question 3: What reason does the poet give for taking one path and not the other Answer: The path taken by the poet had ‘the better claim’. …and aren’t poems meant to be taken as far as you can? (so no, not too far at all). Question 2: In what ways were the roads similar Answer: Both paths looked ‘just as fair’ as each other, they were ‘really about the same’ and both were ‘equally’ covered in untrodden leaves. As mentioned, I now prefer Inquiry but maintain an open mind that there is always the other road.Īnd so perhaps the above also answers your second question on the lines of the poem. when direct instruction “failed” in teaching Ratios, I switched to modelling and had more success then. As teachers, we make a choice each time and it’s rare we get to have 2 different approaches for the same unit for the same class – unless, the first approach fails….which happened to me in Maths (fancy that) – e.g. There are a multitude of ways anything can be taught and learned…and one’s not necessarily better than the other. The other road is any other pedagogy – be it direct instruction, games-based learning, challenge-based learning, modelling, flipped classroom, etc etc etc. What a great idea to get your students to draw! and good questions! I sure hope, like most teachers do regardless of how we teach, that it makes a difference to people other than me, i.e. I choose this path knowing there are other ways and that yes, I could get lost….and do. I think that inquiry learning is the road less travelled by, mainly because there are so many unknowns (variables) and these are welcomed (crazy, really, eh?). There are so many variables in the classroom and directly influencing it that what works one year may not work the next, and who would want to cover the same content with the same students but using a different pedagogical approach? Even if we wanted to, there’s not much time really, is there? So choose we must. For the most part, these choices are equally appealing and deciding on one (as decide we must) is tricky. (But by all means, please feel free to read them – even better if you comment and extend the conversation).Īs teachers, we always have a choice on how we go about devising learning experiences for our students. Even if you don’t read the original posts, you could get a sense of my teaching and learning journey in the last month. And just a few days ago, I posted Making Progress. A couple of weeks later, I wrote about what I was doing in my classes – characterised by inquiry learning – and called the post Lost Already. Rather, I want to use it as a metaphor for my recent teaching experiences.Ī mere 4 weeks ago, I wrote excitedly about starting the new school year in a post I called No Entry. Perhaps it is this learning by mistake that has made the poem memorable but that’s not really the point of this post. I can still remember the English lesson where I made the mistake – yes, mistake – of interpreting the road less travelled by as being less appealing. Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” stands to be one of my favourite poems.
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