Adventures Through Space And Time

[mikecable]

My students are currently traveling 1500 miles, from Texas to Aurora, NC. And they are traveling back 20 million years in time. I'm hearing excited cries of "I found a shark tooth," and "I've got a coprolite."

Ordinarily I would be doing this at our lab tables, but I'm still hobbling around on a cane, so they are working in the front of the lab. But I can tell you that days like this are what make teaching wonderful.

[Auspex]

What a unique and wonderful experience!

(For them, not the cane part)

[mikecable]

Every student in my first of three groups found multiple shark teeth. Happy kids make for a happy teacher.

[mikecable]

More engaged students.

[Auspex]

Boy, they're fully into it!

[mikecable]

Final pics. A great day in my lab.

[Auspex]

Following is a complete accounting of all the the Geo-Paleo exposure I had in elementary and middle school:

I want a Mulligan.

[mikecable]

I've been teaching 6th grade science for 5 years now, and I love it. I taught technology for eight years and special ed prior to that for two years.

Science is by far my favorite.

[snolly50]

It is an absolute delight to see kids obviously entranced by some of the wonders of our world.

[mikecable]

It is an absolute delight to see kids obviously entranced by some of the wonders of our world.

I'm a sixth grade teacher. Entranced kids are the best kids. I work hard on my magic.

[Uncle Siphuncle]

my experience is that most kids welcome the fossil experience in school at that age, esp when they get to keep something cool. its time for me to talk to my kid's classroom again...

Edited April 5, 2013 by danwoehr