MARQUETTE — Northern Michigan University’s History Department has implemented “Reacting to the Past,” an active learning pedagogy of role-playing games designed for higher education. Students are assigned character roles with specific goals and must communicate, collaborate and compete ...
ISHPEMING — Each year, Jim Maki’s Earth Science class at Aspen Ridge Middle School participates in a roadside trash collection to commemorate Earth Day, which takes place on April 22 every year. Obviously, because of the COVID-19 crisis and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s “Stay Home, ...
BIG BAY — Not everyone is a published artist. Rose Barber, though, can say she is just that. Artwork by Rose, 8, a third-grader at Powell Township School, has been selected for publication in Spider Magazine. Her father, David, said Rose’s grandfather, Zaidia, got her a subscription ...
MARQUETTE — The Alice Cooper song “School’s Out” typically is sung a lot in May or June, when elementary, middle and high schools wind down their years. However, with Michigan schools closed for the remainder of the semester due to the COVID-19 crisis, the song can be sung now. ...
My alarm didn’t go off. I looked at the clock. It was 7:15 am. “Oh, no!” I thought. “I am going to be late for school!” When I spoke with my mom, she told me that we weren’t going to have school for three weeks. I was excited. Three whole weeks off from school! It has now been ...
From Northern Michigan University MARQUETTE — NMU alumna Elle Gallager recently found herself on lockdown in the Veneto region of northern Italy, one of the first COVID-19 hot spots in the country. The May 2019 graduate had traveled there for a unique au pair cultural exchange ...