5 notes June 5, 2012 This is what's happening in my head right now as I search for a good-sized fridge magnet. Future students:Miss _______, why do we have to pick metal out of sand with a magnet? When will we ever use this? Me:Well, actually, let me tell you a funny story. Once upon a time Miss _______ was sewing way past her bedtime and wasn't wearing her glasses and accidentally knocked over an entire box of pins -- not pins like safety pins, but straight pins with a very sharp point. They went all over the floor and they were all very small and hard to see. And Miss _______ wasn't wearing any shoes, and Miss _______'s cat was sitting next to her and looked up at her and gave her a look that said "Miss _______, the second I get bored of sitting here I am going to step on that floor and walk all over those pins and it will be your fault if you don't pick them up." And you remember the fairy tales we've been studying? Remember how in the original story of Cinderella the birds helped her pick up the lentils from the ashes because she couldn't do it all by herself? Well, when you drop a box of straight pins all over the floor and happen to have picked metal flakes out of sand with a magnet you might think, "Hey, I bet if I got a refrigerator magnet it would be like the bird to my lentils!" We just connected literature to science, guys. And that is why we study fairy tales that you would rather watch by Disney, that is why you are picking metal out of sand with magnets, and that is why Miss _______ is a great teacher and a terrible seamstress. Future students:...you have a bedtime? You're an adult, you don't need a bedtime. Me:Health lesson time! It's a teachable moment! Future students:Nevermind, we're going to go back to picking metal out of sand... Filed under education I may be a wee bit tired I'm pretty sure there's still one under the couch somewhere
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