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My hat's off to Wil Franklin for sharing his talents of wine sampling with our class today. As we sampled different wines, we based our opinions on our unconscious palates. This lesson was multi-faceted and well explained. Wil modeled for us how to use the materials and how to sequentially taste both the different waters, spit cup, and five various wines. WE had no idea what we were tasting except from prior experiences in drinking wine. I am no wine conniseur, but I've tasted hundreds of various bottles in my life. The first time I ever got drunk was while drinking red Spanish wine at a bar in the city of Krakow, Poland in 1976. Since then I have always favored a rich red type of wine. I discovered a Bordeaux red wine variety today that is exactly what I like: Earthy, slightly acidic taste.

This was hands-on exploartion at its best. We were sent out to decipher the different wines sole through our own devices. In these kids of lessons, students learn by doing, and after the investigation is complete, we go over the results and draw conclusions. I think this models what Paul referenced when he put the "crack" into his modified Scientific Method design: We were able to go back a test our new hypothesis, armed with hints of which wine performed which ways.

Kudos to Wilfred Franklin- Wine Specialist Extraordinaire!