If this were real, one of the kids who admits they have no idea what they’re doing would have already, quite confidently, stolen a pair scissors from god knows where, cut out every single square, then arranged them in numerical order. Only THEN would they admit to not knowing wtf they’re doing.
This is why being a chemistry teacher will turn your hair white.
Instructions are written out, I’ve modeled every step, “please read the entire lab first and make sure you understand every step before you start.”
But now one group is filling a beaker with indicator and another is fucking up their data beyond recognition because they forgot you have to tare the scale (which you already explained and modeled to that group personally, because they do this every time).
When you chose lab activities/materials, the consideration is “in what ways could the most determined teenager hurt themselves or others?” Kids will drink chemicals, spill them on themselves, and mix them at random. At least one group per period will fuck up any given lab beyond all recognition, in shocking and new creative ways.
It’s why so much is done with baking soda and vinegar. I can hit pretty much every standard and concept with those two and some alka seltzer tablets, and I can’t think of a way that a teenager could kill themselves with those things.
If this were real, one of the kids who admits they have no idea what they’re doing would have already, quite confidently, stolen a pair scissors from god knows where, cut out every single square, then arranged them in numerical order. Only THEN would they admit to not knowing wtf they’re doing.
This is why being a chemistry teacher will turn your hair white.
Instructions are written out, I’ve modeled every step, “please read the entire lab first and make sure you understand every step before you start.”
But now one group is filling a beaker with indicator and another is fucking up their data beyond recognition because they forgot you have to tare the scale (which you already explained and modeled to that group personally, because they do this every time).
When you chose lab activities/materials, the consideration is “in what ways could the most determined teenager hurt themselves or others?” Kids will drink chemicals, spill them on themselves, and mix them at random. At least one group per period will fuck up any given lab beyond all recognition, in shocking and new creative ways.
It’s why so much is done with baking soda and vinegar. I can hit pretty much every standard and concept with those two and some alka seltzer tablets, and I can’t think of a way that a teenager could kill themselves with those things.
That child would then be labeled “gifted” at highschool, crash and burn as an adult, and be finally diagnosed withADHD at the age of 28.
If this was real, all three would be punished for asking stupid questions and then get the lowest grade for not finishing the assignment
A couple of them would have already lost (or “lost”) their worksheet.
Several kids started coloring before being given directions.
Another one just doodled random things on the sheet
and another one … wait, where is Tom?