Keeping ‘em Happy

The students’ ire was rising semi-high because of class inactivity. For a week now they’ve been subjected to lectures interspersed with group problem-solving, but there has been nothing hands-on and the promises of such were losing effectiveness

Today, I got them up and moving and scuttling around the room performing different measurements using meter sticks, graduated cylinders, balances and the like. I even got them to wear goggles! The one girl who is a bitch spoilsport still claimed she was bored, but everyone else got a kick out of finally being able to use the equipment locked for so long in the glass-paneled cabinets.