Love it, not enough humour in this very serious world. Plus I never knew the moon was made from kitty litter. No wonder they ain’t been back 😂

Thoughts: you should win the award for the best HS science teacher.  Really - that is so cool and what a great way to make science fun and memorable! 

Second: Ouch!  I looked up the diameter of the typical marble- 1/2 inch.  Since my clearance is only 7/8, your doctor's advice (jokingly) would land me in the big house.

PS- you are raising lots of interesting questions such as is clean kitty litter ok to ingest even minimally?  Hmm. I typed in "is it ok to eat a piece of kitty litter?"  This was shortly after I read an article about how every search you do is fed into your lifelong Facebook "info about you" file, so I may start getting some odd ads in my feed. :-)

@lynne

Yes.  Sometimes a student, with genuine curiosity, asks something like how a nuclear bomb works.  I say, "let's Google it."  Then I say, "on second though, you Google it."  😆

Ha ha ha Glenn,

I would have loved to see those kids faces when you picked those M&Ms out and ate them. That is priceless!!

I have to say, please don’t swallow marbles!!  Though the thought of them shooting out across the room is very funny!!  

Your students are lucky to have such a creative teacher. When learning is fun, it tends to stick with you.  I’m sure those kids will remember how craters are formed on the moon for years to come. 

@lynne

Hi Lynne.  Since it seems that I'm drinking about 10 gallons of water a day now (still not over the paranoia of dehydration since surgery), I think any kitty litter dust was flushed right out.  😆

@squeakyandliza

Yes, no marbles.  😂. But, I think this would be a great idea for a movie hero.  Maybe an ostomate is held with a bunch of other hostages and saves the day with the marble-abdominal-maneuver?  I think we need to pitch this to Hollywood.  It would be a hit, and bring lots of positive attention to ostomates.  

@glenn-giroir

If you aren't their favorite teacher by now, you probably will be by the end of the school year! LOL 

Glen...I would have given my eye teeth to have been in your classroom when you  dug up the candy!!!  Maybe for greater  affect use a new poop scoop next time,  and be digging thru the litter as they enter class.  I can well imagine the disgust of some students, confusion,  and yet, admiration of others! Way to go teacher! Keep it interesting and to classes they need to think about after.

I once, thru the help of a popcorn ball ingested a popcorn kernel. About three days later after a very unusually quiet bowel, while  in the kitchen with my husband we heard a very well defined loud POP!   This was one pop  that would  make  you think popcorn. On investigation we discoved that Rose, my stoma had loudly shot "one single kernel" to the outside world  after a three day journey thru what  is left of my intestines.  The noise that kernal made when it hit the other side of  the pouch had us chuckling here and there all evening long. The  force of that hit did actually  leave  a tiny dent in the plastic so we knew it had hit hard.  If you go with the marbles be sure and use the peewee ones!

@dlkfiretruck

That is a great story, Linda (the popcorn kernel).  I'm still laughing! 

Glenn,

It would be nice if my pouch was full of M&M's when I clean it, but ...

You are a great teacher, and those kids would probably tell their kids about you.

Keep up the good work.