Cheerios

This is Bridgeport High School. The upstairs windows on the left close to the flagpole belong to my room. My room is fairly small with one sink. It is not the best situation for teaching science. I do not have any counter space. I have eight lab desks for the kids to work on. It is okay. I didn't realize how very blessed with stuff and space I was at Buffalo High School. Currently, I am teaching CATS 10, Earth Science, and Physical Science. My CATS 10 class is a special education inclusion class. It has four regular kids and ten special education students. Today, I was teaching about the cell membrane and talking about the phospholipid bilayer. I was telling them it was made of a phospholipid that had a phosphate group and a fatty acid tail. Then the membrane also has channel proteins, which move things in and out of the cell. And the last thing I was going to teach them about the structure of the membrane was that our cells have cholestrol in them which increases the flexibility of the membrane. I asked, "What do you know about chlolestrol?" A sweet girl raised her hand and said, "It is bad for you if it is to high, and can hurt your heart, and that's why we have cheerios." I loved it. It made me smile for awhile. Then I went on with how the phospholipid bilayer is both polar and nonpolar. And then we did a lab. It was a good class. Don't forget to eat your cheerios. :)