https://bluecerealeducation.com Fri, 23 Jun 2023 15:09:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://files.bluecerealeducation.com/2023/06/BowlIcon.png https://bluecerealeducation.com 32 32 https://bluecerealeducation.com/blog/mesopotamians-jumping-classroom-shark/ Wed, 08 Aug 2018 14:51:31 +0000 http://localhost:8888/bluecerealwp/blog/mesopotamians-jumping-classroom-shark/ Pop culture connections are a blessing and a curse in the high school history classroom. On the one hand, YAY ANYTHING THAT REINFORCES CONTENT IN UNEXPECTED WAYS! – even if it’s strange, inaccurate, and fictional {I’m looking at you, Hollywood}. On the other, it’s difficult to anticipate when such things have jumped the shark in relation to teen culture. Just to keep things really frustrating, some of the most promising and engaging sources are so far from school-appropriate that no amount of editing will make them OK, no matter how much I want to use them anyway.

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