Lucy Carter's Blog
May 17, 2025
Labels: An Art Project
Hi, everyone! I have now posted my second art-themed blog post for the year. Learn more about my artwork called Labels in the blog post below: https://lucylcarter.wixsite.com/websi...
Thank you for reading and please feel free to tell me your thoughts by commenting on this blog post or replying to this discussion thread!
Thank you for reading and please feel free to tell me your thoughts by commenting on this blog post or replying to this discussion thread!
April 17, 2025
Litter Critter: An Art Project
Hi, everyone!
One of my goals for 2025 was to write more blog posts about my projects! I am proud to announce my first art-themed blog post for this year! This blog post is about an art project called "Litter Critter!" Check out my project in the blog post below and tell me what you think: https://lucylcarter.wixsite.com/websi...
Enjoy!
One of my goals for 2025 was to write more blog posts about my projects! I am proud to announce my first art-themed blog post for this year! This blog post is about an art project called "Litter Critter!" Check out my project in the blog post below and tell me what you think: https://lucylcarter.wixsite.com/websi...
Enjoy!
January 11, 2025
My Struggles with Faith: AN UPDATE!
Over a year ago, I wrote a blog post about my struggles with the Christian faith. In it, I questioned the nature of God, the validity of religion, and the applicability of Bible stories. Now to start off this new year, I would like to give you all an update about what has become of my religious struggles:
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Happy reading!
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Happy reading!
June 22, 2024
Introducing Pseudoscience Prevention's WORKSHEETS!
Three months ago, I announced the release of Pseudoscience Prevention, a website and initiative intended to inform the public about a handful of historical and contemporary pseudosciences, as well as provide students, educators, and science enthusiasts with strategies to fact-check their own beliefs for pseudoscientific influence. In other words, it was a website that mainly served for informational purposes regarding pseudosciences. However, what if there is a way to prompt students and enthusiasts to actually apply, recall, and reflect upon what they have learned about the different pseudosciences described in this website? What if there is a more tangible way to help students not only learn about fact-checking but actually fact-check their own beliefs? This is where Pseudoscience Prevention's worksheets come in!
Learn more about these worksheets in the blog post below: https://lucylcarter.wixsite.com/websi...
Learn more about these worksheets in the blog post below: https://lucylcarter.wixsite.com/websi...
March 23, 2024
Introducing Pseudoscience Prevention
"Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth."
---Jules Verne, novelist and poet
What if, however, we do not learn from these mistakes? What if we are unable to distinguish these mistakes from valid science?
I am proud to introduce the creation of my new website Pseudoscience Prevention, a website that will address all of these questions!
Learn more about Pseudoscience Prevention in the blog post below:
https://lucylcarter.wixsite.com/websi...
---Jules Verne, novelist and poet
What if, however, we do not learn from these mistakes? What if we are unable to distinguish these mistakes from valid science?
I am proud to introduce the creation of my new website Pseudoscience Prevention, a website that will address all of these questions!
Learn more about Pseudoscience Prevention in the blog post below:
https://lucylcarter.wixsite.com/websi...
December 31, 2023
A Blog's Way Home: A Reflection on a Year's Worth of Blogging
My first blog post was written way back in August 23rd, 2022: it has been over a year since I began blogging on this website.
When first published, this website contained the most sub-par web design and a meager two blog posts. I had no categories to filter out the posts by topic and no menu to navigate through different pages of my website. I did not even create separate web pages for my books, blog, About Me, and media/contacts. Everything was all just crammed into my Home Page, which could only be navigated through repetitive scrolling.
Now, thankfully, I have created a rainbow gradient menu that organizes my website into four different webpages: Home, Blog, Books, and Media and Contacts. I have also been able to organize each of my posts into four different categories in my "Blog" page. That way, readers can now select and navigate blog posts based on topic. Finally, and most importantly, my blog no longer has a meager two posts: this is now my 36th post to date. In other words, so much has happened in just a single year!
To all the readers who have stuck with me on Goodreads and stayed tuned with every update I post about this blog, thank you! Your comments, constructive feedback, and discussion on the threads I have posted in mean so much to me. This is why today, I dedicate an entire blog post to reflecting on my journey. Here, I will discuss my accomplishments, shortcomings, and stats for this year's worth of blogging.
To learn more, check out this blog post below:
https://lucylcarter.wixsite.com/websi...
Thank you for reading and for contributing to a great year in blogging! If you have any questions, comments, and concerns, don't hesitate to send them to me. Happy New Year! 🎉🎉🎉
When first published, this website contained the most sub-par web design and a meager two blog posts. I had no categories to filter out the posts by topic and no menu to navigate through different pages of my website. I did not even create separate web pages for my books, blog, About Me, and media/contacts. Everything was all just crammed into my Home Page, which could only be navigated through repetitive scrolling.
Now, thankfully, I have created a rainbow gradient menu that organizes my website into four different webpages: Home, Blog, Books, and Media and Contacts. I have also been able to organize each of my posts into four different categories in my "Blog" page. That way, readers can now select and navigate blog posts based on topic. Finally, and most importantly, my blog no longer has a meager two posts: this is now my 36th post to date. In other words, so much has happened in just a single year!
To all the readers who have stuck with me on Goodreads and stayed tuned with every update I post about this blog, thank you! Your comments, constructive feedback, and discussion on the threads I have posted in mean so much to me. This is why today, I dedicate an entire blog post to reflecting on my journey. Here, I will discuss my accomplishments, shortcomings, and stats for this year's worth of blogging.
To learn more, check out this blog post below:
https://lucylcarter.wixsite.com/websi...
Thank you for reading and for contributing to a great year in blogging! If you have any questions, comments, and concerns, don't hesitate to send them to me. Happy New Year! 🎉🎉🎉
November 22, 2023
Three Pros (and Three Cons) of Common Core Math Methods
Written by a student who has been taught with Common Core Standards
Have you been taught long division or partial quotients? Do you add and subtract numbers arithmetically, or do you use a number line to do so?
In other words, have you been taught mathematics traditionally or taught mathematics with Common Core standards?
Common Core Standards are a series of relatively recent educational standards that detail the milestones students from kindergarten to twelfth grade should reach by the end of each year of schooling. Each grade level is set with certain standards in English Language Arts and, of course, mathematics.
Due to the recency of Common Core standards, parents may find themselves puzzling over a seemingly simple fourth grade homework question in their child's math paper; these standards have not been initiated until 2010, so many parents may not even know what these standards are and what it is like to be taught with them.
This may bring parents and teachers to wonder: Are these standards effective? What is it like to be educated with these standards? What do students actually think about these standards? As a student who has been educated with Common Core math standards myself, I would like to provide a first-hand account of my experiences with common core.
Read more about my take on Common Core math strategies in the blog post below: https://lucylcarter.wixsite.com/websi...
Enjoy!
Have you been taught long division or partial quotients? Do you add and subtract numbers arithmetically, or do you use a number line to do so?
In other words, have you been taught mathematics traditionally or taught mathematics with Common Core standards?
Common Core Standards are a series of relatively recent educational standards that detail the milestones students from kindergarten to twelfth grade should reach by the end of each year of schooling. Each grade level is set with certain standards in English Language Arts and, of course, mathematics.
Due to the recency of Common Core standards, parents may find themselves puzzling over a seemingly simple fourth grade homework question in their child's math paper; these standards have not been initiated until 2010, so many parents may not even know what these standards are and what it is like to be taught with them.
This may bring parents and teachers to wonder: Are these standards effective? What is it like to be educated with these standards? What do students actually think about these standards? As a student who has been educated with Common Core math standards myself, I would like to provide a first-hand account of my experiences with common core.
Read more about my take on Common Core math strategies in the blog post below: https://lucylcarter.wixsite.com/websi...
Enjoy!
October 26, 2023
For the Intellect has now been released!
Check out the Goodreads book page for it here:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
Stay tuned for more updates. :)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
Stay tuned for more updates. :)
August 22, 2023
50 Deep Questions to Stimulate the Mind
Amid the hustle and bustle of everyday life, it is easy to for the mind to wander from what matters most. With work, small talk, and technology, it is only natural for our brains to bounce back and forth, leaving us in a loop of fleeting, superficial thoughts. It gets harder to focus and think deeply.
Below is a list of fifty questions intended to get you back to thinking deeply. While this list is not necessarily comprehensive, the questions below can be a good starting point to provoking thought and stimulating the mind in a fun and accessible way.
Read more in the blog post below:
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Enjoy!
Below is a list of fifty questions intended to get you back to thinking deeply. While this list is not necessarily comprehensive, the questions below can be a good starting point to provoking thought and stimulating the mind in a fun and accessible way.
Read more in the blog post below:
https://lucylcarter.wixsite.com/websi...
Enjoy!
August 12, 2023
Ten Terrible Mispronunciations We Have All Been Guilty Of
English is a complicated language. For instance, the plural for "goose" is not gooses but geese, yet the plural for "moose" is simply moose, not meese. Likewise, words that are traditionally nouns can also have verb homonyms. For example, the word "buffalo" can either refer to the animal, the city, or the slang verb for "intimidate" or "baffle," hence the lexically ambiguous yet grammatically correct sentence "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo."
Then there, of course, are the twisted pronunciation rules of the English language. For example, "tough," "bough," and "cough" all end in -ough, yet they all have distinct pronunciations.
There are countless pronunciation errors we can commit in the English language.
What kind of words do you tend to mispronounce?
Read on to learn more:
https://lucylcarter.wixsite.com/websi...
Then there, of course, are the twisted pronunciation rules of the English language. For example, "tough," "bough," and "cough" all end in -ough, yet they all have distinct pronunciations.
There are countless pronunciation errors we can commit in the English language.
What kind of words do you tend to mispronounce?
Read on to learn more:
https://lucylcarter.wixsite.com/websi...
