PRECIOUS MOMENTS LIKE THESE

Each week I have my environmental science students come up with a question about the natural world. Then I give them time to conduct some research and answer their own question. I think this assignment gives them the freedom to engage themselves in the subject on a personal level. Every Friday they have the opportunity to present their results to the class in a very informal setting. During our session of show and tell last week, my student M blundered the following: “We should treat the earth more like a living orgasm rather than a huge rock that doesn’t seem to exist and doesn’t mean anything.”

Yes. A living orgasm, indeed.