My students were giving presentations on countries and a young lady came up and announced her country as "niggeragua" for Nicaragua. The class collapsed into a fit of giggles, she had no idea what was so funny, and my face was absolutely red with embarassment! I gently corrected her, sending the class into another giggles fit. Ninth graders. . .
My retirement breakfast is day after tomorrow morning. I have written a bunch of serious stuff to say, but now don't think I can do it without crying. Help!!!! I need some funny way to say how much I loved teaching grades K-3 for 33 years!!
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I am in the process of gathering writings from teachers all over the United States that will provide encouragement and inspiration to teachers and to those thinking of entering the teaching field. The writings should address one of the following topics: Humorous stories about students, parents, other teachers Interesting answers to test questions Jokes told by students Interesting questions asked by students or parents Interesting gifts given by students Interesting show and tell topics Other interesting experiences not encompassed by the above.
The purpose of the submission is to show the rewards, fun, excitement, and fulfillment of the teaching experiences. In a time where teaching is so challenging, it is time to sit back and take a look at the humorous side of teaching. Share your experiences with me and provide the following information: Name, school name, currently teaching or retired, grade level taught, subject taught (if applicable), and your willingness to have your name published. If you would like to submit but do not want your name published, just put anonymous for name.
Be as explicit as possible and provide a way for me to respond to your submission. Thanks for all your help and let's watch the fun begin.
Last year, I had my students do a research project on careers in biology. I had one student research forestry, and he talked about the science of growing a forest...silviculture. But he must have read that article quite some time before writing the paper (or had his mind else where) because he told me that the proper term for this was cervical culture!
One month the scout theme was electricity and the scoutmaster dressed up like Thomas edison and did a skit with a kite. At the next monthly meeting one of the new little tiger cubs was getting a new "paw". The scoutmaster shook his hand and said do you know who I am. The kids face lit up and he said Yeah you invented electricity!
Why be hostile, aren't we all here to benefit society? You may find this timeline of electricity link helpful: [link removed]
While you are both correct, in one form or another, neither "discovered" electricity. However, Thomas Edison DID turn an invention into something that was useful.
Play nice.
Information found at The Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, PA)
A Few Franklin Facts...
When most people think of Ben Franklin, they think of electricity. He is best known for the infamous kite-and-key experiment in June of 1752.
While he did not "invent" electricity, he did make the important discovery that lightning and electricity are the same. He proved that lightning is an electrical current in nature.
Franklin developed the single-fluid theory of electricity, introducing many of the terms used to describe electricity today: battery, conductor, condenser, charge, discharge, uncharged, negative, minus, plus, electric shock and electrician.
And because he understood both the power and danger of lightning, he invented the lightning rod to protect ships, buildings, and even people against it.
I agree, neither invented nor discovered electricity. My point was that dressing as Thomas Edison and acting as Ben Franklin would leave a twisted historical impression on the kids. Just my own pet peeve here, but most adults even have misattributions for major inventions and discoveries in history. The peeve comes into play when I see teachers making those wrong impressions. Anyone here is free to consider me harsh in this view, but how many can tell us what Antonio Meucci contributed to society, what Henry Ford really did that was revolutionary, and what Alexander Graham Bell actually did?
On Edison and Franklin:
Franklin was an inventor, but not with electricity. He did make useful discoveries therein though. I suspect Franklin's kite story was either fictional, or blown out of proportion. It certainly would demonstate conductivity, although the experiment itself would almost surely fail. The key is not a significant conductor (unless the lightning was quite near the key already), and a wet kite string is barely more conductive than the rain itself. The lightning rod, yes, quite good.
Edison is still the most prolific US inventor (according to patent count) today. He had a great knack for envisioning inventions based on the discoveries of his own labs and others. Quite often, his inventions were the "best of breed", meaning he worked on the same things others worked on, but his were usually the most elegant solutions.
What Franklin and Edison had in common, really, was that they were both well learned across many disciplines, and knew how to apply that knowledge in (usually) practical ways.
On 5/17/05, Den Mom wrote: > Why be hostile, aren't we all here to benefit society? You may > find this timeline of electricity link helpful: > [link removed].
Hi there. Most interested to come across your website of funny stories from the classroom. I believe I was the one who first coined the Classroom Clangers title with my book of that name, first published in 1984 by Gordon Wright Publishing of Edinburgh. The little collection became a best seller at that time and generated much correspondence from teachers across the UK and abroad, who wrote to me with their own favourites to add to my collection. The result was More Classroom Clangers and then Even More Classroom Clangers. Demand continued for a number of years even after the print runs for the three were sold. The publisher encouraged me to put together The Best of Classroom Clangers in 1995. The books were all illustrated humorously by George Glass a primary headteacher. Almost 100,000 copies of the 4 books have now been sold over the last 20 years. I could not help but notice that many, posted on several websites and in similar publications (one series stole my title!), were from my books.
The Best of Classroom Clangers by John G Muir (ISBN 0 - 903065-84-3) Steve Savage Publishers (incorporating Gordon Wright Publishing) is still available at £6.95 from bookshops. Any publicity on your great website would be appreciated. Teachers still contact me with their own howlers and I have considered another collection. However, the internet seems to be in advance of me every time I think about it.
PENALIZE is a word I have to avoid