Crossposted at Running GamakPart of my life and work as a teacher is to find new angles on familiar ideas. Students at college level (I teach music education) have often already solidified their understanding of what learning means. My job, as I see it, is to make their understanding "liquid" again.
I have lots of tools and props that provoke good discussions along these lines. I have a big Fuller Projection map mounted on dryboard, which puts the whole notion of compass directions in a wholly new perspective. I have another map which shows Africa, entirely delineated by tribal territory— providing a complete reshaping of what national boundaries represent.
Here's another goodie.