The Power of Getting Plastered
Today our Resource Room students applied a coat of plaster-of-paris to the volcano models which we began fabricating yesterday out of cardboard, newspaper, and masking tape. Mid-way through today's messy procedure (which we conducted outside), one of the students, a notorious slacker when it comes to academics, enthused, "this is a great project! Now I want to be a teacher, and someday, if this school is still here, I want to teach here and do this project!"