I learned today that students want to be engaged in the classroom if you give them the opportunity. I had a demonstration called an enviroscape where students could put things like fertilizers, pesticides, sediments, cowpies, oil and other things on a landscape (which was Kool-aid) and all be rain clouds and spray the area down to watch the pollution get into the fields and rivers and lake on the enviroscape. Even the students who I usually get no response from in normal class were excited for the activity. I think I really realized that you need to find a way to reach every student, it may take 100 different tries to get a student to want to do work but it’s worth the effort.
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