Short but Sweet

Once again, I roll my eyes at reading an article about how lawmakers are wasting time and tax payer money. If you couldn’t tell, I’m quite opinionated on this topic. I personally don’t drink pop, so my views and opinions may not be warranted as this law would not affect me in the least. I don’t drink pop because it’s my choice. It’s my choice because I am well informed of the effects of it. I personally believe that no one should be drinking that much pop, but laws like this bother me because they only mask the underlying issue. It annoys me that so much time and money is spent on a solution that doesn’t attack the heart of the problem. Now that’s out of my system...

On to teaching! I’ve struggled with coming up with incorporating this into a lesson plan, as far as Physics anyway. Every idea that came into my head pertained to English, government, debate, biology, chemistry, health, and even foreign language and math. Honestly, the only physics ideas I came up with had to do with destroying the article like “what force was needed for me to rip the paper?” and “at what angle did I have to throw the crumpled paper in order to land in the garbage can?”, etc. 

After some struggle, I asked Jeff if this assignment had to relate to our field and he said no. So I’ve decided to make it easier on myself and pick an idea I already came up with for the other subjects… let’s say math, my minor. My first math idea was percentages. I would bring different containers of different sizes to class and have the students calculate the percentage of the daily recommended value of calorie intake in each container. Perhaps even compare it to other drinks such juice, milk, water, sports drinks, and energy drinks. In assignment would involve tasks such as looking up what the daily recommended value of calorie intake is, multiplication, division, as well as obtaining the knowledge (and hopefully the consciousness of) what the students are putting into their body every time they drink a pop. As far as ingredients (especially diet pop and energy drinks), I’ll leave that up to the biology and chemistry teachers.