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'Earth Revolves on Its Axles'
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16454 |
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LIFE
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5 / 1989 |
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Mark Evans
Mark Evans is an elementary school teacher and free-lance
writer residing in Ballwin, Missouri. |
During the thirty-odd years I've been teaching elementary school youngsters, I've continually been bestirred by their beguiling ideas about science. Many of their observations are hilarious.
"A scientific fact was only a theory as a child."
"The internationally used scientific system of measurement is hips, waist, and bust."
"There are some things about electricity we still are not sure of. These things are called whats."
"Mechanical energy changes into electrical energy by being a miracle."
"Gravity is with us most in the fall."
"The top of the room's air is hotter than its bottom."
"Once I used a microscope and saw some germs in a pond water drop. Pond water germs are very interesting folks. All their ways are herky ways and jerky ways."
"Germs are so small because things like penicillin scrunch their growth."
"For some reason, when I looked in the microscope I could not see anything."
"We have to send light through a prison before it will show all its colors."
On The Rocks
The grade-schooler's fund of knowledge is obviously a glittering store of wit and wisdom, happily free of inhibitions. Each new subject is a fertile field for off-base interpretation and lopsided logic. Digging into the subject of geology produced such notable nuggets as these:
"We call a small rock pebble, and we call a big rock bolder. Being bigger, they are."
"A rock weighs less under water, in case I ever want to know."
"Some rocks have bands in them. The streaky kind. No
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