That said, you *do* sound just a little bit...um...nuts.
You're not the first one to think so!
The kids LOVE it when I perform my simulations for them. It engages them and it helps them understand the concepts in a way they can understand. (Even though it completely drains me by the end of the day!)
You think that one sounded crazy? The last one I did involved the acts that the British Parliament imposed on the American colonists and the colonists' reaction to them. For the writs of assistance, I dumped out their backpacks looking for smuggled contraband. I taxed them for having paper (Stamp Act), writing in pencil (lead from the Townshend Acts), etc. When they ran out of pennies, I threw them in "debtors' prison". And when we got to the Boston Massacre, I pelted them with paper "snowballs" until they fought back - I probably had 100 paper balls thrown back at me until I fell dramatically to the floor and "died." How often do you get to throw things at a teacher without getting in trouble for it?!
Oh yeah, the kids are still talking about that one!
