Here's a compilation of quotes as of 3/12/10
2/08/10 Firemen fight fire with fire
2/08/10 Do it by yourself with a partner.
2/09/10 Humans used to have 20% more carbon in their bodies.
Cory: What do you mean, like the element carbon?
Yes.
Cory: You're saying they had more atoms of carbon in their bodies?
Yes, because carbon is an element with a half life.
*pulls down periodic table & points to carbon*
Cory: Yeah, but you don't get your carbon from your parents.
But you get your genes from your parents!
Cory: Nevermind.
2/09/10 In college my professor had us stare at a burning candle. There are actually 132 ways to describe a burning candle.
2/09/10 The lab table is two meters high.
2/09/10 A hypothesis is not a guess. (repeated atleast 5x within a 1 minute period) A hypothesis is an educated guess, it is a guess.
2/12/10 The probability of sharing a birthday with someone is actually 18,334,330.
2/17/10 A $500 ruler is more precise than a 25 cent ruler, even though they do the same exact thing.
2/18/10 All the Olympic events are measured in distance over time, so they're measured in seconds.
2/18/10 A liter bottle that you drink, well, it's not a liter, but it is a liter.
2/18/10 ..the water displacement for the gold crown was greater than the other because it was more dense.
2/22/10 The atmosphere layers have pauses in between.
2/22/10 Vancouver has no snow, but we have snow here.
2/22/10 The continents will all become one again. You will be able to walk from New York to London.
2/24/10 The mass of water on the Earth is 71% of the Earth's surface.
2/24/10 When you walk outside onto the parking lot, you are moving.
2/24/10 Did you know that the ice caps on Mars are melting? And there's no people there!
3/05/10 Discover films have 700 options that sometimes do not fit.
3/05/10 How many miles is 4 miles?
3/05/10 What do animals exhale? I think it's methane.
(the whole class says CO2)
*gives puzzled look*
*picks up worksheet*
Oh, it's CO2. They exhale methane out of their butts.
3/08/10 I hear what you are saying, but I don't hear what you are saying.
3/09/10 Only 3% of the Earth's water is liquid.
3/09/10 This is called a Wild Beast. (pointing to a picture of a wildebeest)
3/10/10 Fungi (pronounced "fun-gee") are mushrooms.
3/10/10 (pointing to a marlin on the food chain) "Mammals."
3/11/10 A hawk was cycling around my yard, circling, to eat a bird, which ate a cricket presumably.
3/11/10 Turn around, and don't turn around again. (said to student facing forward)
3/11/10 A whale will eat a crab. (in response to a student asking if crabs would eat dead whales)
3/11/10 Why do you have a different shirt on?
Student: I'm not wearing a different shirt.
Yes you are! You were wearing a different one!
Student: I never changed my shirt.
Did you go to your locker and change your shirt?!
3/12/10 The pollutants are used for cellular respiration.
3/12/10 If you are exposed to nuclear radiation, mutations may be passed on for generations by bio-accumulation.
3/12/10 Some of you have, wait, most of you, some, most of you have parts of carbon in you.
3/12/10 People used to have more carbon in their bodies.
Cory: That makes no sense.
Excuse me!
Cory: You're saying that people had more carbon atoms in their bodies?
Yes, because, carbon is an element, and it has a half life.
3/12/10 If you are a parent with 4 carbon molecules, and they have 6 protons, when you progenerate, your children will have less, because of carbon decay, so they will have less, thus it has been factually proven that humans once had more carbon.
3/12/10 Carbon is cycled, so sometimes it will be in the body and the ground, you will lose some. (in response to a student asking how humans have less carbon if it's cycled)
3/12/10 Flammable ("flah-mobble") becomes, it, the, eh, deh, the useful, for, uh, petroleum.
3/12/10 There's something called white phosphorus, well, technically its red, and it's in matches. (She just found a picture of a red match in her Word document).
3/18/10 I have them scored, but I just need to grade them.
3/18/10 In the desert, pine, you're gonna have needles, so the water can needle, to run down the needle.
3/18/10 For savanna, you're going to be close to Savanna, Georgia, Gulf of Mexico. (explaining the savanna biome to the class)
3/19/10 ..the tropical rainforest can't support trees. (click link for dialog & recording)
3/22/10 I don't make mistakes.
3/25/10 Aboriginals are considered the most intelligent people in the world. They walk around in loincloths.
3/25/10 Whenever you have a graph, the whole idea is to see what the graph is telling you.
3/26/10 Excuse me, eh, Jack, Zack, Mister, 'Jurremy'
3/26/10 The stone wasn't from the island, so it must have been transported with advanced machinery. (referring to Easter Island)
3/26/10 I don't think there's an answer here. It actually has no answer. It's how you think. (She forgot to put the answer on her Word document.)
3/26/10 These are bacteria. (picture of blood cells)
3/29/10 Biodiversity is just another name, for, (reads computer screen), biological diversity.
3/29/10 It's just one organism on the planet. Because bacteria mutates, it absorbs the antibiotics.
3/29/10 So when a child does not eat (much?) for 5 years its DNA will be altered, and it will not grow as tall.
3/29/10 Think today about all of the species that you know exist, and we'll learn some that don't.
3/29/10 The dodo bird lived off of a tree. It was called a (?????) tree. It needed the fruit. It was symbiotic, and its droppings fertilized the tree. When there were no more trees, the bird went extinct.
3/29/10 ...for example, if they don't go through the bottleneck, and the gene is split, then the offspring will have them.
3/31/10 ...I don't think so... I don't know every single animal. (student asked if saber-toothed tigers still exist)
3/31/10 How many of you know that panthers lived in Florida at one time?
3/31/10 A triangle means change, because it's a Greek letter in the alphabet called Delta, and it means change.
4/01/10 They might take Dolly, a sheep, and mix it with a llama, or something like that (explaining Selective Breeding to the class).
4/26/10 (She told our whole class that the shrimp would eat the phytoplankton and therefore accumulate UV radiation.)
4/26/10 (the shrimp would obtain these mutations via bio-accumulation)
5/27/10 "uneven, uneven...uneven, uneven..."
5/27/10 If you go out to the shore in the summer, you will see the oil.
5/27/10 Fuel may not exist because there will be no tiny little marine organisms.
5/27/10 Natural gas... works by... burning......(*stands waving arms with silence*) the production of the organisms.
5/27/10 Canada covers Canada and some of the United States.
6/01/10 ...it has the protons and neutrons, which are attracted to each other because of opposite charges... it also has electrons, which...
6/01/10 (poor observation skills & smugness)
6/01/10 France.. supplies the nuclear ("nucular") energy to all of Europe... and certainly the whole country.
6/02/10 What is a placer deposit? (displaying picture of a tornado)
6/02/10 ..to separate water from the dioxide (explaining hydrolysis)
6/04/10 If you have an apple, it has a core that it grows from. So in essence, the core of the apple is what you eat.
6/09/10 Your computer will not work - there is no Google today!
6/09/10 I don't remember, when I was nine. I don't know what I knew then.
6/11/10 The last I heard, it was called, in short, The Soviet Union. (Marsha tried to explain to the class that Russia was not a country, and it was actually the Soviet Union for about 3 minutes while the class tried to explain that it had been dissolved.)
6/15/10 Pangaea! (displaying picture of modern continents)