Argh! Y11 (fifth formers) last period are never a good idea. Especially as the end of the week approaches. I was trying to teach them about heat transfer (conduction, convection, radiation) and they kept talking to one another! ARGH! All the time! and the same ones again and again. Then, a pair of them got into a giggling fit. Laughing and laughing. I just stared at them til they stopped (one of them kept hiding her face under her blazer to stop herself, how it helps I don't know). Then one of them apologised and said they weren't laughing at me or anything. Which in turn caused the rest of the class to start laughing. ggrrr argh! I was reading Matt's blog and he has funny stories about things his students write. I have none. Boo.
Something that is cool is that my year 9s are doing a BIOTECHNOLOGY unit. Which is a bit fluffy, but then they are only Y9. Anyways, they get to extract essential oils from plants and then make them into balms or ointments or whatever they can think of that might be a herbal remedy (except nothing to be ingested). They also have to find somebody to test it on. It is pretty cool. My class are about to get up to the experimenting stage where they get to do some hands on stuff with the still and infusing oils. I want to do it and try to make soap. I've been thinking that my tupperware forms will probably be awesome for it as you can flip the soaps out easily. Yay.
What do you think about home-made herbal remedies? Or do you even know any that work well?
Posted by giffy at May 27, 2004 06:44 PM | TrackBack