The Twilight Years

[msjen]

Curriculum development, like many things, is a cycle. When I first started my job, we were towards the beginning of the cycle. I got to see many projects develop from an idea ("Let's write a unit for third graders about light!") all the way to a finished product ("Wow, we wrote a 600-page behemoth of a teacher's guide. Could this break someone's

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[ammonoid]

I don't think I or any of the grad students at school could calmly discuss Uranus. I wonder what the people at NASA or JPL do, the ones who study Uranus. "Oh, what do you do?" Oh I"m a scientist that studies Uranus. HAHAHAHAHA.

Sorry I'm not as mature as your 13 yr olds.

[ammonoid]

Oh and:

First of all, there were thirty-seven kids in the class.

When I went to DC public school in the 80s there were 35-40 kids in every class.

[msjen]

I'm not saying it's not uncommon, just that it shouldn't be!

[jetspeaks]

Yeah, well, at least they don't study YOUR MOM'S anus.

OK, that didn't work.

[msjen]

One of our goals is to expose kids to different genres of science writing. We had this idea that we'd write simplified versions of scientific papers, and show them the original source documents. Then we found out that the paper in question was called "On The Perturbations of Uranus."

We didn't stop laughing all afternoon, seriously. So we are not as mature as 13 year old either!

[ammonoid]

I'm laughing too.

I, too, am no more than 12

[flipping_hades]

Oh shit, you just made me spit coffee on my computer screen.