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HOODIE TAILS: The Adventures Of The Secular Web Kids
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DO YOU HAVE A QUESTION OR COMMENT FOR DARTH HARLEY?
Get your parents’ permission and send us an anonymous email. Your comment may appear on the site! Also, do email us short Darth Harley stories, Art, or even websites. We’d love to publish those on our website!
*More episodes of “The Legend of Darth Harley” to come soon…
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(2/2) What is Reading? A Joint Post on Secular Frontier and Secular Web Kids
Reading is like putting together a jigsaw puzzle without seeing the picture on the front of the puzzle box. Understanding what you’ve read is like looking at and studying a hidden gestalt image over and over until you finally see the hidden picture, and then can’t unsee the hidden picture. Our analogies capture the cognitive…
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What is Philosophy? A Joint Post on Secular Frontier and Secular Web Kids
For the Greeks Philosophy was interested in Being, which was the iceberg beneath the surface of the water when all you can see is the tip, or what is going on behind the scenes that makes the theater play on the stage possible and run smoothly. For example, we have grapeness before our mind’s eye…
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DOET Thinking and Rote Memorization
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A DOET Short Story!
Once upon a time, on the edge of a deep, ancient forest, there ran a roaring, modern highway. Cars and trucks barreled down it day and night, moving fast like lines of data inside a supercomputer. Right next to this busy road lived two very different creatures: Horace the Hedgehog and Master Jada the Jedi.…
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Exploring DOET Thinking for Kids!
DOET thinking is just as much a search for questions as it is a search for answers. Inquiry questions open up a path for exploration where you can record all the interesting things you find, but the circular path ultimately leads back where it started so you can re-ask the question in a more basic…
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Let’s Begin to Learn About DOET Thinking
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Darth Harley Character Reveal
I did a character reveal for Darth Harley yesterday on Secular Web Kids blog HERE as part of my end of summer posting that I also did on my Secular Frontier blog. It turns out that while Harley is a bright kid, he also has significant mental challenges he is managing. I wanted to create…
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Darth Harley, The Sickest Boy in the World
Darth Harley was a Bark Lord of the Sith. Of course, Harley knew he wasn’t actually a Sith. The Jedi and the Sith were from long ago in a galaxy far, far away. But, he liked to think of himself that way. Interestingly, Harley’s favorite movie series wasn’t Star Wars, but the Rocky movies. He…
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Weird Facts
Did you know the oldest goldfish lived to be 43 years old, or that you’re taller in the morning than at night? Check out some totally weird facts on this Reader’s Digest site and share some unusual facts about yourself to your friends.
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Make a Family Tree
Here are engaging, classroom-friendly ways a teacher can assign a family tree project so it feels creative and fun rather than just filling in names on a chart. These work well for elementary (and adaptable for middle school), encourage family involvement, and build skills in research, storytelling, art, and presentation. Always offer flexibility for blended,…