Happiness Journal 28/7/25

It has been 3.5 years since I last taught Science. Nevertheless, I think my previous experience has compounded dividends. For my remedial class today, I went the extra mile to seal a piping hot cup of cup noodles inside a ziplock bag. Thus lay an authentic opportunity for them to think about how water vapour turned into water droplets - an explanation process that can come across as so convoluted that this teacher came up with the mnemonic WCLCW. 😅 I also brought in two cups of ice cubes - one crushed and the other uncrushed. But I left them for too long, so they couldn’t really see how the crushed cubes were melting faster than their uncrushed counterparts. Anyway, I don’t know about my students, but I applaud myself for bringing in real-life phenomena into my classroom.