[meteorite-list] Meteorites and Kids

From: Dave Schultz <dls1955_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:53:59 2004
Message-ID: <OE70tox7nyeKzGZuNY100002c8b_at_hotmail.com>

Very enjoyable also Frank! Luckily you didn`t get bit while demonstrating to
the 3rd. grade students! :) Oh, and by the way, you will NEVER grow up!
Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: Frank Cressy <fcressy_at_prodigy.net>
To: Walter Branch <waltbranch_at_earthlink.net>;
<Meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2002 11:10 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorites and Kids


> Hi Walter and all,
>
> Last year I also presented to a class of third graders and thought I'd
share
> a great way to get the class's attention (as if that is needed). Getting
> ready for the presentation, I laid the meteorites out on a metal side
table
> which the teacher provided. Knowing that part of my talk was on how to
> identify meteorites from terrestrial rocks, I obviously bought along a
rare
> earth magnet. A flash of genius struck ;-)
> Holding tightly, I carefully put my rare earth magnet on the metal table.
> (You probably know where I'm going). During the talk I asked young "Billy"
> to come up and help me demonstrate that meteorites were magnetic. It was
his
> birthday and being a larger third grade boy made it all the better. I held
a
> small Canyon Diablo iron and asked him to pick up the magnet and show the
> class how it stuck to the meteorite. Young "Billy" reached for the magnet
> and......obviously wasn't able to move it, try as he might. Both he and
the
> class got a good laugh and the class paid even more attention than they
> might have.
> The third graders were a great age group to share our love of meteorites
> with. Their minds were sponges, soaking up every bit of knowledge there
was,
> they were interested in and liked learning, and they were studying the
solar
> system. A perfect audience.
> A few days later, I received a package containing letters from every one
of
> the students. I still have them, and hopefully they also still have their
> small, weathered piece of the solar system (a great way to get rid of
those
> small broken weathered NWA pieces).
>
> Regards,
> Frank
>
> P.S. I probably wouldn't use this trick on older students. They might
> actually get the magnet off the table than then pinch their finger between
> the magnet and table or meteorite. Coincidently, just the other day I was
> playing around with a couple of rare earth magnets and the result was a
nice
> blood blister to show for it. Guess one of these days I'll grow up :-)
>
>
>
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Received on Sat 02 Feb 2002 02:06:06 PM PST