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At the height of its popularity quicksand appeared in one out of 35 Hollywood films. It has since disappeared from the mainstream psyche. Regardless of quick. In a tree branch. Caught in someone’s hair (or your hair) In a dog’s mouth. In a waiting room. Mysterious Places. For these poetry writing prompts, we’re going to ask you to stretch your imaginations beyond the world of logic and fact and imagine that you can inhabit “in between” spaces.
Alex, a fourth grader in my class at Ashlawn Elementary School, in Arlington, Virginia, broke into tears. He'd been working on the design for Marsville, a colony on the fourth planet from the Sun. Through the project, sponsored by the Challenger Center for Space Science Education, kids not only learn facts about Mars, they also grapple with the problems humans would encounter living and working in an alien environment.
Alex was trying to figure out a way to cook his favorite food -- hamburgers -- in space. He'd been consulting with a British scientist via the Internet about the question. The tears started when the man told Alex that he'd soon be visiting Washington, D.C., for a National Science Foundation meeting. Could he and Alex get together and 'do lunch?' 'I didn't tell him that I'm only in the fourth grade,' sobbed Alex, thinking he'd done something wrong. 'I don't know how to 'do lunch.'
Such are the wonderful -- yet sometimes bumpy -- educational adventures that arise when students take responsibility for their own learning. Traditionally, the teacher is an all-knowing fountain of wisdom spouting facts that students are expected to soak up. During more than three decades in education, however, I've come to believe that the proper role of the teacher is to be a learning guide, an educational facilitator, and a broker of learning opportunities.
In my early days of teaching -- during the 1960s and '70s -- the classroom sometimes felt like a cell; it seemed that both the students and myself were prisoners of time and the educational climate. As I explained lessons to the students, their little faces would glance longingly at the real world outside the classroom window. One day, a little boy stood up and said, 'I'm tired of all of this talking. You just talk, talk, talk all the time.'
He was bored to death, and, frankly, so was I. I wanted to be a creative teacher inspiring students to learn. I wanted my students to care about being in school. So I decided to reinvent my teaching. Rather than trying to dominate my class, I learned to make it a shared experience.
In the spirit of such self-directed learners as Thomas Jefferson and George Washington Carver, I taught kids that they didn't have to depend on someone else for their education -- they could learn on their own. My job was to observe, to assist, to suggest, and, when things were going well, to fade into the corners of the classroom.
The most important change I made was to see my job through the eyes of children and to really get to know the students in my care. I began to devote the first month of school to learning about my kids -- a mixed group of fourth and fifth graders. We made visual maps of their family trees, interests, and ideas. We created timelines and wrote autobiographies. I arranged camping trips and museum visits that bonded the class into a group. Each child got a new start with me; I trusted and believed in them no matter what their official records said.
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My goal was to tap into the spirit of curiosity and exploration that all children share. When kids are allowed free time on playgrounds, they form little groups to investigate a mud puddle or trace the paths of ants. They are forever solving problems and making things -- tree houses, drawings, model airplanes.
So I filled our classroom with a treasure chest of goodies, making it a hands-on learning laboratory for kids to explore. There were rocks and rockets, petrified wood and fossils, pots and pans, maps and atlases, paintings and posters, calculators and incubators, greenhouses and butterfly boxes, masks and artifacts from around the world, and even a tile from a space shuttle.
Occasionally, students sat at desks as I talked to them, but most of their time was spent doing projects that combined knowledge with creative problem solving. As part of a National Geographic Kids Network project called 'What is Water?,' we measured and monitored the water quality in a stream outside our school.
We took field trips to Chesapeake Bay and stomped through mud in search of plankton and tiny crabs. We observed the effects of acid rain on historic buildings in Alexandria, Virginia. We created stories, poems, magazines, and murals based on water themes. Using computers, we mapped and graphed and shared and compared data about water resources with other children around the world.
Over the years I took advantage of every opportunity to learn about -- and obtain grants for -- high tech tools for my classroom. Finally, we had computers, CD-ROM players, and modems that allowed learning to reach beyond the confines of the school into the real world. Through the Internet, a virtual faculty of teachers, students, and experts was available to me and my kids. This global networking allowed the tiniest fingers to explore the biggest ideas.
I saw myself as a co-learner with my kids, and I gave myself permission to learn as much as I needed to be a good teacher. I studied marine biology and met huge mosquitoes as I tromped in wading boots through creeks and marshes. As a Challenger Center fellow, I set off a rocket, stood in a wind tunnel, flew kites, and piloted a glider.
A couple years ago, I left the classroom to expand my role as a change agent in education. I worked with the National Infrastructure Information Advisory Council to bring electronic networking to schools, libraries, and homes, so that every student can have the kind of access to learning that my kids did. I've also helped launch the Online Internet Institute, an electronic network dedicated to teachers teaching teachers, a place in cyberspace where educators can learn and grow together.
The underlying goal of this work, however, is the same one I've always had: to offer kids the rich education I never got as a child. The most important role for a teacher, I believe, is to introduce children at early ages to a wealth of wonderful learning opportunities so they are inspired to think about who they can be and what they can do for the rest of their lives.
Bonnie Bracey is an independent educational consultant.
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Updates every few weeks! - There are 15 movies available for download
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These sets are currently online in the members-area:
Part 3 of the great Mandy and Daphne movie, the oil-on-your-shirt-and-mud-in-your-ears washing of scene :-)
Movie of Eileen in a wool pullover and long pants, she finds some wet mud to enjoy her wamming!
Eileen is wearing nothing but a tiny white dress over a string.
She writes with mud on her stomach and rolls down a muddy hill, to end up soaking in wet mud
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Rerun of one of the best sets of Brenda, in a plaid skirt with leggings underneath,
and a jacket over a red shirt, she gets herself muddy in a puddle
Movie of Esther, who actually went to the beach to do a bikini-shoot, but found a spot with wet clay.
Dared by her friend she rubs herself all over with the mud to get that 'soft-skin-feeling'.
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Young and cute, blond Eileen is wearing jeans pants and jacket, with a blue shirt underneath.
She gets totally muddy and takes off the jacket to get every part fully covered.
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And right away another great movie: Veronique in a denim shirt over a dress that crawls up to reveal a lot.
Lovely girl and great mud!
4 classics of Ania have been posted on www.wetlookstore.com
Desiree is a very nice girl wearing a skirt and jacket over a blouse.
She jumps into a not-so-deep quicksand pit and gets herself dirty.
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Movie of 2 girls Daphne and Mandy on a rainy day in a dried-out mudfield.
They brought some canisters with vegetable oil which they poor over each other, making them greasy and slippery.
Then they try to apply some hard mud but the oil makes that very hard.
Chubby girl Deveny truly enjoys mudding and even covering all of her face in the clay.
She is not wearing a bra in this set, but very wide, baggy clothes which she washes at the end.
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Movie of Louise in a blue Adidas trainer pants with a very yellow Adidas trainer jacket :-)
She goes with bare feet into some good old Dutch clay.
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Monica is wearing her regular bra and panties when she finds some great clay at the bottom of a river
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Very nice set of Chrissy in a jeans outfit getting herself all mudded up!
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Eileen in simple pants and a shirt gets herself covered in wet mud and washes it at the end.
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Eileen in brownish tight pants and a red shirt becomes a mudmodel!
Deveny in a black and white striped dress can't wait to jump into the mud and cover herself :-)
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Louise with bare feet in the wet clay, wearing a Kappa trainer and nothing underneath :-)
Chrissy in Diesel jeans works up a sweat in a mud pit and loves to show!
Lovely Louise in an Adidas trainer gets muddy
By request, Louise wears a velvet skirt, velvet blouse and velvet headband with even a velvet necklace..
Guess the theme here is... velvet :-)
It's still october, so here is, especially for the OktoberFest.... Louise in a dirndl in mud.... Lovely set!
Unintended mud shoot with mature Esther, she found some clay during her bikini shoot and decided it would be good for her skin :-)
Our video-lady joined in at the end ;-)
Cute Eileen paints her white dress with Mudmodels and then takes a full mud bath!
Very pregnant, very private set of Maud enjoying her time in the mud!
Deveny and Chrissy get completely mudded!
Desiree in quicksand wearing skirt, jacket and blouse
HUGE set of Patricia and Melanie having a very special wedding..
From beginning till the end it's just one big laughing, messing and great happening!
Please note that this set will only be available in the members-area for a limited period of time,
Chrissy in c-thru white outfit gets muddy and washes it, trying to get it clean again...
Movie of lovely Veronique in denim shorts and her fathers pullover. She gets dirty! :-)
Eileen is very happy in her white pants and wool pullover, especially after she gets muddy
Deveny is a cute girl with baggy pants and a taste for mud!
Pregnant Daphne came out in an all white outfit and bare feet to have some mud fun! :-)
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Chrissy in a pink dress and little heels plays dirty
Superb set of Eileen in a mint dress with many layers, a good sample of 'trash the dress'!
Movie of pregnant Daphne in all white outfit on bare feet!
Army-babe Sietske in combat wear getting all muddy, she takes off her coat half way to get her shirt done as well.
Movie of Melanie in a summer dress rolling around on a muddy shore and doing her belly-slide
Chrissy in short jeans, Converse and a sleeveless downjacket over an orange shirt
Deveny is a lovely big girl and she enjoys the mud as you would!!
Eileen in white pants (well, at least the first few seconds) and a sleeveless jacket (daunenjacke) over a blue pullover.
Great movie of lovely Nienke on Adidas sneakers and an only jeans which she rips to shreds.
Also a nice hoodie over a shirt. To see a 3-minute demo on youtube click here!
Chrissy is wearing a tight jeans pants and jeans jacket over a white blouse without bra.
She has fun jumping, diving and rolling around in the mud!
Such a gorgeous and willing girl and not enough mud to be made! Scraping she managed to created
some dirt but she looked forward to rolling in the deep mud which simply wasn't there that day.
But still, very nice clothes to see naturally played with in the dirt :-)
Movie of Silvie in black dress getting herself dirty in a self-made mudpit
Eileen in jeans jacket which she takes off to get herself even more muddy, she really enjoys it :-)
Movie of Lieneke in jeans and a shirt under a vest, which she takes off halfway
Eileen in jeans and red shirt under a blue body warmer.
This actually body-warmer is for sale, so write to info@mudmodels.com if you are interested.
Desi in D&G jeans and a hoodie gets herself completely covered in mud, very nice.
Movie of Melanie in jeans playing around in the mud, she poses and does some sliding :-)
Eileen in red shirt gets her pretty looks covered in mud
Deveny diving face first in the wet mud, her sheer dress soon is covered in mud!
Movie of Veronique, a very fun girl with long hair, running and playing in great mud!
Doing a belly slide, getting dirty for the first time and washing it off.
New babe Desiree came to do some mudding, but one our way to the mud-location we came across this great piece of quicksand!
Sandy fun is good fun as well! :-)
Unexpected.... Janny came to do a wetlook-shoot, but she stepped into some clay and decided it would be fun to play with it.
Not a real mud-diving-set, but very natural and spontaneous makes it even better :-)
Just shot yesterday, this new girl Deveny is really enjoying herself in the mud!
She told us she loves the feeling, as she wasn't allowed to do this when she was a kid :-)
New girl Eileen in a smashing jeans outfit wades in thin mud and merges herself under the mud
Gorgeous but just a little bit mud... Yael came to do a mudshoot but due to flooding our whole area was covered in water.
She was very forthcoming, trying to make her own mud, but it just wasn't enough to roll in....She will come back soon!
Tanja, aka Abby Winters' Iskra in a pink gypsy wedding dress in some sandy mud shows her dress
Patricia in a fantastic black dress, elegant even when covered in mud! Very big set
Laura in an exclusive wedding dress complete with shoes, pantyhose, veil, gloves and a whole lot of mud! :-)
New girl Daphne is a real wamfan, but she never tried mud before. So we invited her to our mud pit and have a taste.
Well, she loved it so much, she even ripped her white clothes off to feel the scrub on her skin!
From pretty blonde to mudmodel, new girl Laura has fun in the wet muddy swamp
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Sylvie in black dress creates her own mud hole and covers herself completely before washing it off again
Melanie in floral shirt and jeans gets muddy, then takes off her shirt and gets even more dirty!
Trash the dress: Mandy is wearing a shiny white weddingdress with 6 layers, gloves, jewelry, matching shoes and a tiara!
She obviously enjoys it very much! It's a nice way to do something creative, so if you have your dress still hanging around somewhere,
let us do something funny with it! Write us :-)
Pink top and dark jeans on Veronique to get her nice and muddy in!
'Here's another fine mess you got us into!'
Our friend Daphne had a mud shoot when she noticed another girl we had with us for something else.
Interested in her and the experience of girl/girl mudplay, she asked Mandy if she wanted to 'assist her' in poring vegetable oil over her.
Hm hm.. soon they got each other oily and when it started to rain, there was enough mud to go around!
Notice how Daphnes white shirt hardly gets stained because of all that oil! Great set of two great girls.
Veronique in skirt and jeans top in great wet mud
Melanie in a pink Adidas jacket and shorts puts wet mud over her clothes
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Valerie and Leonie in plaid skirts and little black tops play and (friendly) fight in the mud
Naughty Daphne is back! She is one hell of a mudmodel! She first has a fag, then takes a big leap and splashes into the mud!
At the end she takes off nearly all her clothes to get completely muddy for you.
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Patricia is very wild in good mud! She is wearing a ass-enhancing jeans with a vest made of wool and denim.
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Lieneke in Only jeans and sweater with a white tanktop underneath enjoys a good mud bath in the sun!
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Very big set of very muddy girls Amber and Jessica.
They play and fight getting all covered in good mud!