Physics in the ELA classroom
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Why Newton Matters to the English Teacher
How do we foster deeper thinking? We can’t simply run skill based activities and expect to have kids make genuine progress in deeper thinking. Grokking, as Robert Heinlein calls it in Stranger in a Strange Land, involves thinking deeply about something by laying that deep thought against another often unlike idea.
The key to this cross discipline detour is to remember that human knowledge was never meant to be purely co