STEAM..I think the generation that only taught NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND did not know the Voyage of the Mimi 1 or 2, which was fully integrated, nor the NASA initiatives for students. Perhaps they are so young the project based initiative from the Challenger Center, did not enter their teaching strategies, Marsville, Moon base America.. Rainforest... I have worked with the Smithsonian and National Geographic on the Columbian Centellial, Earthwatch, and others on Project based learning. The Second Voyage of the Mimi was and is a twelve-episode American educational television program depicting a fictional crew of a sailboat named the Mimi exploring Mayan ruins in Southern Mexico. No department claimed it so I had permission to teach it. It was geography, science, culture, astronomy, art and a little music, it was games and maps. It was a learning journey that was excellent, The most interesting was the Maya ruins and the art. Along the way, we learned a lot about ancient civilization and also attempt to foil the plans of looters who steal the artifacts from the ancient sites. (This series is a sequel to The Voyage of the Mimi, produced in 1984, in which the Granvilles rented their boat and services to zoologists studying the humpback whale in the waters off Massachusetts.) The series aired on PBS and was created by the Bank Street College of Education in 1988 to teach middle-schoolers about science and social studies in an interesting and interactive way. In each episode, viewers were taught something scientific relating to plot events in the previous episode of the show. For example, an episodes plot would be about deciphering Mayan writing, and the viewer also receives information about how the Maya wrote various words and numbers. We learned the codex Maya thanks to George Stuart and clan, It is still relevant. Elementary school teachers will find more than just springboards for archeological lessons in The Second Voyage of the Mimi, but also springboards for lessons in writing techniques, social studies, linguistics and history. Bugs me when people say STEAM. They should say NCBL cut every innovative program. Frank Withrow had the idea of doing the MIssissippi as the next sequel why dont the steam people talk to him?? I dont know how all of the children were affected by it but I started a lifelong set of visits to Mesoamerica, first as a part time stewardess, then on vacations and the last place I have visited is Belize and the ruins there. Houston has incredible libraries of the Maya and I was priviledged to meet George Stuart and to get some of his outtake videos. I had never seen a scorpion, or thought about how hammocks were made, or the traditional clay pots. We did dating, there was astromath involved and the codex were numerology and more. There was a whole handbook of projects .
Posted on: Sun, 06 Jul 2014 14:24:50 +0000
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