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So, I missed the deadline for my blog post last week. Oops! But, I feel like I've made some progress towards putting students in the "driver's seat" while I assist in navigating and acting like a drivers-ed instructor. I'll attempt to explain what's been going on, but this might take a bit to get you up to speed. We use thinglink to explore the Gray Area . This week my 6th grade science students are concluding an ecosystem unit that I taught through the lens of a mystery. This mystery began in September, when the students were introduced to a fictitious area, called the Gray Area, where the fish have been dying for the past 5 years. The unit is mostly based on a curriculum by LHS GEMS called Environmental Detectives . There is a certain cadence to the mystery, where we "discover" a new pollutant, hear from a suspect, then investigate files/clues and finally blame the person we think is most responsible for the particular pollutant. It is lot...