tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16893534568300254132024-02-18T23:15:53.225-08:00Ethical+Kids=AwesomeHi, we are the kids from the Sunday school of the Baltimore Ethical Society (BES). We have created this blog to keep people informed about ethical happenings, and so that we can post our art, poems, and stories that we create. We vary in age; some of us are 12, others are as young as 4.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10199543705227185955noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1689353456830025413.post-87998680773700449882014-03-30T08:30:00.000-07:002014-03-30T16:54:12.520-07:00Creativity in Motion - building a Rube Goldberg MachineFor the past month students have been working collaboratively on creating their own version of a <a href="http://www.rubegoldberg.com/" target="_blank">Rube Goldberg Machine</a>. They've been working on understanding physics, expanding their problem solving skills, working with each other in communicating their opinions and ideas, and experimenting with different ways to make their project go. Since we have students of different ages ranging from 6-12 each child brings their own experience and knowledge with building things to create the project.<br />
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We've been viewing some videos of various Rube Goldberg projects from puppy dogs to giant ones, to ones that included women as creators. The video below shows Parkour Athlete Jason Paul - and his giant contraption. <br />
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<a href="http://youtu.be/4MiYtvbK4JY"></a>We'll be adding a few photos and video from our project as well as some other wonderful examples of this mixture of art and science. So check back.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10199543705227185955noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1689353456830025413.post-5075369149598088712014-03-16T11:14:00.000-07:002014-03-16T11:14:49.720-07:00An Interview with Kate LaClair - How Do We Help Part III<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
In part three of the interview done by Camille Henley - Kate addresses the important issue of how do we help deal with some of the issues in our community - in our city. </div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10199543705227185955noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1689353456830025413.post-981166290153159022014-03-09T11:21:00.000-07:002014-03-09T17:26:45.589-07:00An Interview with Kate LaClair Part II - What About Syria?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
We recently posted part one of this three part interview by Camille Henry on the VLog Page of this blog. In this second interview - Kate discusses her feelings on political unrest and humanitarian crisis in Syria. </div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10199543705227185955noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1689353456830025413.post-78008384150552740102014-02-08T14:00:00.003-08:002014-02-08T14:03:27.095-08:00What's This Sunday School About?<br />
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<span style="color: #741b47;">Curriculum for the
Baltimore Ethical Society Sunday School program, has been developed with
consideration to teaching to multiple learning styles and intelligences. The
focus of the interaction with students is to engage in dialogue about topics
which affect values, and embody understanding ethical culture, and philosophy.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #38761d;"><strong><span style="color: white;">Ethical Sunday
School Lessons Align with the Core Values for Humanistic Living</span></strong> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Ethics is my
religion</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Every person is
important and unique</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Every person
deserves to be treated fairly and kindly</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">I can learn from
everyone</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">I am part of the
earth: I cherish it and all life upon it</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">I learn from the
world around me by using senses, mind and feelings</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">I am a member of the
world community which depends on the cooperation of all people for peace and
justice</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">I can learn from the
past to build for the future</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">I am free to
question</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">I am free to choose
what I believe</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">I accept
responsibility for my choices and actions</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">I strive to live My
values.</span></div>
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include: interactive sounding or music making using percussion, voice, found
sound. As each person enters, we go back to the beginning-asking what makes
them unique. Some kids don't know at first, however if you keep asking them,
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Recently two of our students had a bit of a disagreement on Sea World. One thought it was a wonderful place, and the other, a life long animal advocate shared what she had been studying elsewhere about the truth of how Sea World's captive animals were treated. Both students continued the discussion which included more research about the <a href="http://www.seaworldofhurt.com/ten-things.aspx" target="_blank">life of whales</a> at Sea World. The ethical treatment of all beings - including animals is very important to our students.<br />
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Several petitions have been launched on the social activism platform <a href="http://www.Change.org/">www.Change.org</a> to request that prominent musicians including Willie Nelsen, and Heart, cancel their upcoming shows at Sea World, which they did after seeing the Sundance Film Black Fish. Another Change.org petition is hoping to gain enough momentum to<a href="https://www.change.org/petitions/seaworld-orlando-florida-free-tilikum" target="_blank"> free the beautiful Tilikum</a>. National Geographic reports that <a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/12/131220-seaworld-blackfish-boycott-field-trip-musicians-animals/" target="_blank">children are also boycotting Sea World. </a><br />
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Here's the YouTube preview for the film Blackfish - it is rated PG 13.<br />
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peace</div>
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love</div>
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life</div>
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sister<br />
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little sister</div>
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BES</div>
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Physics</div>
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TV</div>
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Hedgehogs</div>
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Hats</div>
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Homes</div>
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Element S2</div>
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iron</div>
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transistors<br />
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shopping</div>
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money</div>
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earth</div>
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cheese</div>
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Tomorrow</div>
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Swiss Cheese</div>
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Kids section of Forever 21</div>
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blood</div>
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oxygen<br />
air<br />
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sight </div>
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photons</div>
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planets</div>
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heart</div>
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buddies<br />
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head</div>
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running</div>
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other body parts<br />
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friction</div>
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kinetic energy.<br />
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fun<br />
energy<br />
people making web comics<br />
fiction<br />
enjoyment<br />
existence<br />
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the coast of Africa<br />
calm<br />
great food<br />
death deities (Japanese)<br />
scythe<br />
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BES Sunday School Class December 2013</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10199543705227185955noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1689353456830025413.post-64746628731781347212013-11-16T20:09:00.000-08:002013-11-16T20:09:43.186-08:00On Growing a Green Wall, Having Enough, and Learning about Creativity and CooperationThis month is the first official month where we've started to gather content for our blog. I will be acting as advisor for this Awesome Blog, and will contribute a monthly posts about what we've been doing and what we have planned.<br />
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We talk about a lot of things during Sunday School - and the topics this year have ranged from, bullying and how rules get broken, to when enough is enough, to and how young people contribute to making change in the world.<br />
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We've adopted as a group the program <a href="http://www.freerice.org/">Free Rice</a> as our community project this year, with an invitation to all of the <a href="http://bmorethical.org/">BES</a> members to participate in this great educational and humanitarian effort.<br />
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We started out the fall with the younger students planting lettuce terrariums, and the older students learning about growing green walls in Brooklyn, thanks to <a href="http://blog.ted.com/2013/03/17/new-playlist-ted-for-kids/">Ted Talks</a> for Kids. Embedded next to this post is the Ted Talk on the student powered movement to bring city grown food to the local table in neighborhoods where food deserts had been the norm. The teacher is very energetic, and inspires the kind of passion neccessary to propel a movement. The older students also learned about the good, the bad, and the ugly of <a href="http://www.seaworldofhurt.com/ten-things.aspx">Sea World</a>. They hope to continue a conversation/debate on varying view of how PETA handles mistreatment of animals.<br />
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In two weeks we will be presenting an original interpretation of the fairy tail <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Soup">Stone Soup</a> during the annual Baltimore Ethical Society Harvest Festival. Learning the story and practicing for the play has been a great way for each of the students to individually and as a group to contribute to creatively building the story. We're looking forward to seeing how the play turns our next Sunday.<br />
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Here's a portrait of the gang - brought to you by one of our Awesome Kids, Brianna.<br />
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