Greek, Diné cultures meet when talking stars at Rehoboth
By Shondiin Silversmith
Navajo Times
REHOBOTH, N.M., Feb. 20, 2014
(Times photo – Donovan Quintero)
All the small giggles and shuffling silenced when fourth- and fifth-grade teacher Bev Jonkman lit up the star labs projector earning a "whoa" from each of her students.
Jonkman took her science students into the star lab last week teaching them about the constellations and the star patterns found in them, even including a few stories from Greek mythology on what a few of those patterns mean.
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