Musical Flashmob on the Train

File this one under "public transit," "global," and "music."  (Not to mention "free.")

 It's the Copenhagen Philharmonic treating the commuters in the subway to a performance of "Morning Mood" from "Peer Gynt."  Save for a dull-ish, end of the year day, and watch how students brighten up. 

Score One for Social Studies

Correct map of Byzantine Empire under Justinian

I love this one.  At New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art ("The Met," that is), a thirteen-year-old visited the Byzantine Gallery.  When he took a close look at a map of the Byzantine Empire under Justinian, something seemed wrong.  He had a question for the museum staff.  Why weren't the regions in northern Africa and Spain included? 

It took a few months, but recently Benjamin Lerman Coady received an email from the Met's curator for Byzantine art, acknowledging the error in the Met's map. 

Some seventh-grade student (and teacher)!  And a good argument for more field trips  . . . .