Posted by Robyn Davis on Mar 24, 2018; 8:58pm
URL: https://nabble.aealearningonline.org/Forum-Post-4-VTS-Jessie-Philpott-tp9735p10862.html

Independent, critical thinkers - isn't that what we all want for our students?!  It is hard in today's society when the "hive mind" seems to take over.  I have to post the same thing my friends are posting on Facebook, Instagram, or whatever social media is popular at the time.  

One of our goals as teachers is to create "future ready students."  How can they be future ready if they don't think creatively and independently?  I love how we are learning how arts education can help us do that for/with them.  

Your link to the Pet travel lesson is fun!! I can see doing that with my 2nd or possibly 3rd graders if I gave them a "beanie baby" (yes, I'm that old) and having them take it someplace on their Spring Break or Winter break.  They could take pictures (or preferably DRAW) and then write about it.  Our local public library has done a project like this for years.  Now, I am considering doing it short-term with one of the grade levels I teach. I think I could also find several appropriate books to read to them to accompany this lesson (that's the teacher librarian in me!).