Design Challenge: Build a Gate
in this design challenge: build a gate we discovery all the design constraints for proper fences and gates to keep animals safe.
Activity: Understanding Emotions, Fear and Confidence
In this activity we will discuss fear, failure, and confidence and create a fable.
Design Challenge: Reframe a Problem
In this design challenge we pretend to be encountering an elephant blind. How does the way we look at a problem change us?
Design Challenge: Mastering Fear
In this design challenge we explore the intersections of time, biology, emotion, and courage by creating an emotion hourglass.
Design Challenge: Duct Tape Trivia
In this duct tape design challenge, students must resaerch and create a solution using duct tape and data. No ducks harmed!
Design Challenge: Lewis Structure Spelling Bee
In this design challenge, we introduce atomic symbols, quantities, and bonds in physics, chemistry, and biology.
Design Challenge: The Alcohol Family
This design challenge explores the alcohol molecules and the basics of the Lewis Structures. Using magnets and steel rods.
Lesson: Pressure and Water
In this lesson we explore why water is so special in that it is magnetic and when you constrict it gets stronger. This is sanitary.
Lesson: Vital Signs and Ecologies
This lesson is an exploration of the way that ecosystems all work together and find life. Here we take their vital signs.
Design Challenge: Six Simple Machines
In this Design Challenge we create a game of reducing objects into the simple machines that comprise all machines.
Lesson: Phases of Matter
I this lesson we take a closer look at pressure, temperature, water and the three most common phases of matter. Solid, liquid, gas.
Lesson: Under Pressure
This is a core lesson on the role of pressure in all its many forms at Mezzacello. A heavy and forceful issue! Under Pressure indeed!
Lesson: Leadership Roulette
In this lesson, which is universal, we will learn what it takes to be a leader, and that leadership is a skill and a relationship.
Lesson: Pattern, Structure, Process
This is a core lesson: how to understand more complex problems through systems engineering principles and reframe problems.
Lesson: Chemical Bonds and Ions
In this lesson: Chemical Bonds and Ions we explore the atom and the interesting way they bond together and do work. Fun!
Why Voting Matters Here
A blog about why voting matters and understanding what we need to do to be effective gardeners. See the leaf and the tree to understand.
UN 17 SDG Presentation to GIFT in 2023
This is my PDF Jan 14 presentation to the Global Innovation Field Trip about the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Partnerships For The Goal of Sustainability
Part of a series of blogs tied to the UN SDG program for 2030. This one is about building partnerships for the goal.
Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions and Sustainability
Part of a series of blogs detailing how UN 17 SDG play out at Mezzacello. This is peace and justice.
Life on the Land and Systems Sustainability
Part of a series of blogs regarding the UN 17 SDG and my work on the farm. This one is goal 13 life on land.