SnakeyesX

I think childhood you would be disappointed that adult you used the time machine to tell childhood you that R.L. Stine once answered one of your questions.

I'm a professional engineer, and can give your students my own personal answer here.

It's not a question of when you started to love science, it's a question of when you stopped loving science. Babies are the greatest scientists of all, and they learn new things every day. Most third graders love space, or dinosaurs, or bugs, or any number of things they can learn new facts about every day.

The key to not losing that interest is to never stop asking "Why". There is always an answer to the question "Why", even if nobody knows that answer.

Being a scientist is finding the answer. Even if many people already know the answer like "Why is the sky blue?" Finding out makes you a scientist.

So, to maybe bring this lesson home, a extra credit assignment could be to ask all your kids to write down a question they want an answer for. Don't worry too much about if the questions they ask is of a scientific nature, it could be history, it doesn't really matter, what matters is the journey of learning on their own.

They only need a couple of sentences to make it worthwhile, the format could be:

Question: Why is the sky blue?

Research: I asked my mom.

Answer: There's blue light in sunshine, and it gets spread out all over the sky by the air.

Follow up question: Why does only blue spread and not the rest of the colors?

Me: Hey Michael, how could I become a great swimmer?

Michael Phelps: What do you mean? Just eat a lot and swim real hard!

Me: Does it help to have the wingspan of a pterodactyl, and the metabolism of a polar bear?

Michael Phelps: Well, yeah. But who doesn't?

It makes sense for Madden, the rosters change every year.

But CoD is about war, and war, war never changes.

It's too early for an AMA. It's like, 7 AM or something.