There are some things that students may say about my class that may not be true. They may claim that I let them watch a bunsen burner for a couple of minutes while we listened to a SpongeBob song. They may say I have a monkey collection, and a homie collection, and a paper hole collection. They may say that an electric burner caught on fire in science today when we were making popcorn for an educational learning experience about scientific inquiry. If they are in the O section, that last one is true.
We did learn a lot about scientific inquiry. We posed a question, created a hypothesis, then came to an understanding about our manipulated variable (independent), our responding variable (dependent), and our control variables (everything we did not allow to change during the trials). From there, I experimented and had students watch our for my wrongnesses. (Apparently that actually is a word--the spell checker is not catching it). I messed up a lot, which was my goal actually. One of my goals is to make class so enjoyable that it flys by, that you forget it is actually education. I don't always achieve that, but I often do. I think I did today.
Sweet justice (or today, salty justice).
