My uncle's advice to chemistry teachers
My uncle is a biochemist and has very strong opinions about chemistry education. He says to his teaching students: if you are teaching chemistry and your kids aren't stealing magnesium and sulphuric acid from your supply cupboards, you're not doing your job properly.
( flatfrog Staring vacantly into space, Fri 18 Mar 2011, 10:41, 6 replies)

Someone should tell your dad
that we no longer live in a world of Beano-style hijinks. Stealing dangerous chemicals is more likely to get you put on a terrorist watchlist, these days. Is that what he wants?! Be best if he hands himself in to the authorities, now, before someone backtraces your IP and you find SO19 kicking down the door.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Fri 18 Mar 2011, 10:54, closed)

We took all the joy from the song and removed it using this machine.

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 18 Mar 2011, 11:01, closed)

I look forward to a bright,
grey, feature-less future.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Fri 18 Mar 2011, 11:26, closed)

I agree.
Look at how well biology teachers cope - by the age of 14 you can guarantee that pretty well every kid in the class will be trying to have sex out of hours.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 18 Mar 2011, 11:02, closed)

I was recently having to do some work with the Saudi Arabian biology curriculum
I'm pretty sure it must have been wrong, but what we were sent consisted essentially of expecting 13-year-olds to work their way up through taxonomy: term 1 was Archaea (bacteria); then Algae, then Fungi. They must just be on the edge of their seats in biology lessons over there.
( flatfrog Staring vacantly into space, Fri 18 Mar 2011, 11:09, closed)

My biology teacher ocasionally got us to model things out of plasticine (nerve cells and the like).
Prior to the plasticine being doled out, he'd always politely request that we don't just use it to make willys.
( Slippery Mick ‏, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 0:01, closed)