Lunar Lunacy

OK. I cannot emphasize how much I learned from the lunar lander model experiment. We want our kiddos to do things that have the potential to frustrate them a lot every. single. day. My life to this point has taught me, if nothing else, that you learn a whole lotta ways to do things the wrong way before you can even begin to be open enough to learn how to do them the "right" way. That experiment pissed me off. I can blame it on the fuzziness of the yarn or the angle at which we adjusted the cup, but we just flat out just didn't figure it out and that's what I needed to learn at that moment. NASA scientists don't always get it, my students won't always get it and I won't always get it. But you want to know what I did do? I thought about how to make that marble hit the target all night. What better homework can we be assigning than that?