I am currently in Seattle, Washington visiting some friends with my husband and having a blast! We have been here for three days and are exploring  and learning so much!
These are just a few of the pictures from it. The first is a picture if my husband and I when we went on a hike to a light house and searched for the geocache my friend Jon had looked up. This was an excellent experience and I could not help but think of how beneficial this could be for education. You have to be able to learn to read coordinates as well as follow a compass. I was thinking if a class was assigned a geocache in a certain location and had to include a porn in the box once found or a riddle or a fact or something if the like it could be a wonderful experience to appreciate nature, get active, learn to navigate, get creative, and have lots of fun! It would be great to incorporate this type of learning with a book such as Lord of the Flies where the kids must learn to fend for themselves.

The second picture is Jon and I in a German town called Leavenworth. This was an amazing town and provided yet another great learning experience! Granted what we learned was mostly about various beers and bratwursts and how they are made, however, I did realize how much people can and do choose to learn in an average day. If we can make school entertaining and interactive for students it will almost cover up the fact that they are learning and it will have the result that we hope to achieve.

Lastly, during the trip my husband mentioned how much he loved thriller movies and as conversation tends to do, we ended up talking about Genie the girl with no language. My husband Ben had never heard of this story before but was very interested and wanted to know more about it. He simply pulled out his cell phone and searched her name in YouTube. Next thing you know, we were watching video clips and reading articles. It just showed how much learning can be done in everyday life. I just hope that I can tie this fun simple way of learning into my style of teaching.

http://youtu.be/cN7Z_ctY2bU