One of the routines (our kids call it a tradition!) in our family is that I make pancakes on a Sunday morning. This is the time I also like to watch a TED talk, while I am cooking them. This morning was a treat with this one from Robert Ballard:
He is a wonderful speaker and talks with passion about our need to explore the oceans and the world within. We know so little about the world beneath the oceans. There is also an educational project that runs alongside his exploratory work that uses the whole thing as a springboard for children to research and find out about the world. And this is where the connections start….
Our next door neighbour is an expedition organiser for the submarines Ballard describes in his talk. The ones on the beginning of the movie Titanic. Peter is a fascinating guy, has a very cool job, and has done some stunning photography of the creatures found at the depths described in the TED Talk.
Our library at school has had a wonderful project running looking at deep sea vents and introducing LOGO as an extension of the idea of navigating submarines around them.
And as I have written about earlier the whole concept of the Robocup competition and this links in well too. I have three sets of the Mindstorms Lego ordered and will take a lunchtime group using it when it finally arrives. This video will be a great lead in ….
So …. just an interesting time musing on all the serendipitous connections that come out of a Sunday morning.
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