Thursday, June 18, 2009'♥
This picture depicts a scene of a school science laboratory. I can see a few groups of students in the foreground and background. They seem to be carrying out a physics experiment about pulleys. In the foreground, I can see a group consisting of four students, a bespectacled girl and three other boys. I can also see an experienced bespectacled physics teacher with curly hair on the left of the picture. She appears to be explaining the principle of the pulley while demonstrating how the pulley works. This can be seen by her act of pulling a string connected to the pulley. The bespectacled girl along with the boy with a name tag next to her are taking their mechanical pencils and flipping open an exercise book. Perhaps they are about to jot down what the teacher had just explained to them in the exercise book. I can also see a short bespectacled boy jotting down information in his exercise book. He is looking attentively at the set-up and I assume that he is jotting down details such as measurements so as to find out how useful the pulley actually is. The last member of the group is a boy wearing a dark watch found on the right of the picture. His head is tilted at an angle. Perhaps he is curious about how the pulley works and is trying to get a clearer view of the set-up from another angle. Having a curious mind is a good thing as it is very important to question the facts of Science and see for ourselves whether the fact is believable or not. However, he had been paying so much attention the set-up that he appears to have forgotten to record the results of the set-up. The teacher may have been setting up the set-ups and carrying out the experiment repeatedly to different classes in the day. Despite this, she is still not bored of repeating the experiment over and over again, which can be seen by the smile on her face. What she had done is worth our respect as she tries to provide each class with the same amount of energy and curiosity level. However, this is not seen on the faces off the students. The students are not smiling, perhaps this is because this is their last lesson of the day and the students are already exhausted from the overload of information given by subject teachers earlier that day and they need some time to absorb all this knowledge. However, I believe that they should still maintain smiles despite having a long curriculum time as it is encouraging for the teachers to see students appreciate the lessons and putting forth relevant questions.