Not just the kids, but me, also.
I'm just getting over a nasty respiratory infection. As I am 90% healed, I decided to take advantage of the school's offer of H1N1 virus shots. So, yesterday, I lined up and got needled.
The kids are also in a slump. They don't particularly want to learn something new, so are somewhat resistant to learning right now. We've had the End of Course test, so I can't hold that over their heads. We DO have a final, which is 15% of their grade, so they do have an incentive to work.
Which, to be fair, most of them are. God bless them.
I had a brainstorm yesterday. I decided to use the last week of class having the students create podcasts on some aspect of either Physics or Chemistry. I'm going to sign up for the laptops today (I'll only need about 10), and this weekend, I'm going to find some audio and video podcasts for examples. They need to understand that the audio medium is different - without pictures, they'll need to have more detail in their script.