Making Connections

 
This week I've learned about experiential teaching & learning and how you have to submerge students into an experience and the content will come along. I really didn't believe this until I experienced. You see on Friday our environmental class took a field trip to place called Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge. I experienced nature and its beautiful inhabitants in a way I had never expected to. We were submerged into the experience and learned the content along the way. It made me question how I could do this with mathematics, what experience can I give my students to help them become successful learners? Although mathematics is not as visible as the White Tail hawk we saw it's right underneath the surface in the amount of time we take to get ready in the morning, number of outfit combinations we can make, or the distance travel for a trip. It's a matter of becoming more aware of our surroundings and bringing in the tools we have to make the experience relevant. Just like I became aware of this beautiful place we are so luck to have in our own backyard:)