I am excited to start sharing what I am calling MECC Shorts. Similar to the Workshop Ideas I have been sharing for some time on my YouTube channel, these videos are usually 10 minutes or less and grow out of the workshops and conversations I have with Catholic educators.
To make them easy to share, they are available for free, though I welcome anyone who wants to support my work and help me cover my production costs to consider upgrading to a full membership.
I also hope that many of you will find them helpful resources to spur conversation in contexts like staff meetings.
In this second one, I share a story from a workshop with teachers in Okotoks Alberta, where a middle school science lesson on levers and leverage become an opportunity to explore Scripture, social justice, economics, and the unity of truth. A seemingly straightforward physics topic led to thinking about the multiplication of the loaves and fishes, the parable of the talents, charitable giving, and the ways small inputs can produce outsized effects in both the spiritual life and the wider world.
It also gave us a chance to reflect on the nature of analogies in a way that has much broader application that just this lesson: analogies work, because truth is one.
As it turned out, I shared my outline for a lesson plan with my friends at Teacher Time Machine and they used it to build a full fledged lesson plan. We’ll publish that one here on Thursday.
