An Update

I am so excited--I was struggling with how to get my visually impaired students to diagram Lewis structures of molecules when I had an epiphany--I asked the art teacher. And she said "Use clay or play-doh." So that's what I'm going to do--today in Chemistry we're going to use clay to make 2-D models of Lewis structure molecules. It may be a little messy (and I'm wearing beige today--yikes) but it's okay! I am just happy that they get to do it.

I know Play-Doh or clay probably seems so obvious to you, my readers, who I trust are more creative than I. But being rather used to using my left brain, sometimes it's hard for that old right brained thinking to kick in. When I was younger, I was very creative with drawing and building things and I was also a fairly decent creative writer. But as I said, these days I spend more time thinking with my left brain--math, science, logic--and I guess I'm getting a little rusty.

Actually, over the Christmas break, I bought myself a book on creative writing prompts for teachers or writers and have been doing it for fun in my (limited) spare time. Just because I'm a biology/math major doesn't mean I can't enjoy my right brain!!! But lately it's been collecting dust on a shelf because I'm engrossed in "The Nazi Doctors" by Robert J. Lifton (Holocaust studies being my OTHER passion). Which, despite being historical, is also pretty much a left-brained book.

I resolve: in my next bout of free time (whenever that may come) I will take the book out and do a few more writing prompts. They're really fun and the book itself is a wonderful compliation of funny prompts and zany illustrations and colors, colors, colors. I need some distraction. :)

One right-brained scientist, coming up.