[TheForge] Industrial arts (long and boring response)

[Shannell]

Thats a fantastic idea, I have seen similar but lower key ideas in my
education history (as a pupil) but something like that would be the key to
wake a lot of the slumbering minds who think school is a joke and those who
enjoy school will do even better.

 > How about a
> class project where students design and then BUILD a bridge?  The
> history teacher could do a week or two of lessons into the history
> of bridges and how they have impacted human events.  The science
> teacher can speak of the physics behind the various static structures.
> The math teacher can address the static calulations, and perhaps
> with an advanced class, the dynamics.  A teacher of literature
> could easily occupy a semester with literary references to bridges
> and students could write about them.  And in shop, the students
> learn how to take all that good theory and put it into practice.