I came across this video today on how some teachers in the Bronx are trying to make science interesting and fun. A very hip way to get students interested in subject content and connecting it to things students are interested in.
http://www.upworthy.com/an-incredible-teacher-made-up-a-curriculum-to-get-this-kid-to-laugh-at-a-photosynthesis-joke
There is definitely a very wrong way to make content-related jokes, and then there is this. I remember my Chemistry teacher doing this really hokey Solid, Liquid, Gas dance and it was just the most ridiculous thing I'd ever seen. It wasn't as if we were little children, this was Sophomores and older. Gimmicks like that tend not to work because they have no purpose. But funny things that provide richer understanding of content are great and under used.
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