5-14

Dateline Manheim Township H.S.


 * Mr. Stick’s reflection. ||

On May 14, 2009 in room 019, beginning at 9:41 ante meridiem, Christopher Manning, a science teacher, had his third period class complete a variety of activities over the course of 48 minutes. The class began with students coming into the classroom and picking up a ruler, along with a piece of graphing paper. Manning then went over Hershey Park ‘Stuff’, as was indicated by the notice on the board. This included Permission slips and that groups were due Friday, May 15. He did not indicate what students were going to do if they did not get their own group by that time. Several students also were told if permission slips were not turned in they would be prevented from going but given their ticket for other use. Manning then went repeatedly over page 2 and 3 which were worked on for a period in class following the Hershey park dialect. He elaborated on the laws of reflection, which the students called “easy.” Manning later explained it would get more complicated when curved mirrors were calculated, and that was the purpose of the activity, although it was simple. In the demonstrations Manning demonstrated how different lines of reflection could recreate the same point opposite a mirror and had the students do this graphically independent of him until the end of the period. In this activity Manning also was able to demonstrate how each angle was the exact same once it was reflected off a mirror. Although he had a protractor it was not a requirement for the activity, but it enabled for a person to check their answers to make sure all of the angles were equal.