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"We help students develop skills to take apart what they see and put them back toigether. We want our students to know that they have abilities within themselves to open up new alternative ways to think about things." So we are creating tools that help students scaffold what we're teaching them.

Are students in suburban disricts more like sponges that soak up what's being thrown their way? Many of the inner city students I taught for the past three years liked science, but did not seem interested in learning science, but many did enjoy doing science. I was trying to be their "guide on the side" and they became my emergent learners. Students seemed excited about science, but not committed to staying focused on my lessons.

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Perception is influenced by genetics and experience. I honestly think my mother gave me the ability to look at things from a warped angle. Maybe I inherited this or maybe i learned it from watching her. Either way, we both look at things from nature and make faces out of the angles. Now I am wondering- do sculptors see things like that too? Does anyone else see faces when they look at the pipes under sinks or in the designs of urinals? Is there more matter (than in other folk) in my (part of the) brain that contains images?