[TheForge] Industrial arts (long and boring response)

[Demon Buddha]

Thanks,  I came up with that my first year teaching.  Other teachers
bought in.  Principle bought in.  My boss cut us off at the knees.
Made me sick.

Shannell wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
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