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These are not real hurdles. The whole point of education is that kids learn the things you describe. If a kid builds a microscope, takes orange peel, and recog
by ronaldx 13y ago
These are not real hurdles. The whole point of education is that kids learn the things you describe.
If a kid builds a microscope, takes orange peel, and recognises that they don't see anything because it's opaque, that's great - it's frustrating but they learned something.
As a child, we weren't allowed to mess around with the microscopes because they were too expensive. But messing around with microscopes is exactly what kids should be doing.
- tedsanders 13y agoWell, they were hurdles for us when we taught a classroom of fourth graders how to make Foldscopes. Kids give up on things quite easily and don't necessarily think a free personal microscope is cool.
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- ronaldx 13y agoOK, I understand now. In case you read this later, I wanted to respectfully suggest that fourth grade was the wrong classroom for you to be in: * fourth graders are still developing their fine motor skills and not all will be physically capable of construction-type work. * fourth graders don't really have enough science background to understand why they should be interested in microscopes (let's say, they would learn more playing with a 2-10x magnifying glass) * as you identify, fourth graders have short attention spans which are still developing. If you're teaching, you have a responsibility to manage this. If you were going to demo to a seventh grade class, I would warn you of the same issues, honestly. On the other hand, I would be very excited to have you in any classroom eighth grade and above.