It took me two weeks to prepare an hour-long lesson on the subject of refraction for Grade 8 science pupils in a rural township school outside Worcester. Two weeks. Though I have a Bachelor of Science degree, I had not taught high school science for a long time and my training was really to teach senior biology - or what they call the "life sciences" these days.
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