At the end of the day, I’ll ask my students if they have any questions. No hands will go up, I’ll act a little disappointed and say, “You know, I’m always asking if you all have any questions, and no one ever asks what my favorite dinosaur is.” and I just let it hang in the air.
Without fail, a hand will slowly go up, and I call on them. “What’s your favorite dinosaur?” and I respond immediately with, “That doesn’t count, it wasn’t organic.” and then I kick them all out of class.
The correct favourite dinosaur is triceratops (if dealing with small children) or archaeopteryx for kids old enough to know that birds are raptor dinosaurs.
The coolest moment of my life was when my favorite dinosaur, the coelacanth, was discovered to still be alive. I was obsessed with this little known fish (for kids, no idea if it was better known among adults) and was super proud to be able to spell it, and then they found one!
And I told you that story because I so rarely get to, because nobody asks adults about their favorite dinosaur.
I just looked it up, and they were rediscovered in 1938, too. I’m absolutely not in my late eighties, so I guess this is just a good example of how weirdly wrong our early memories can be (at least mine are).
Ok so first of all you were right it was a big deal when Coelacanth was rediscovered. Don’t give up so easy, that person is just saying it was a fish not a dinosaur.
At the end of the day, I’ll ask my students if they have any questions. No hands will go up, I’ll act a little disappointed and say, “You know, I’m always asking if you all have any questions, and no one ever asks what my favorite dinosaur is.” and I just let it hang in the air.
Without fail, a hand will slowly go up, and I call on them. “What’s your favorite dinosaur?” and I respond immediately with, “That doesn’t count, it wasn’t organic.” and then I kick them all out of class.
The correct favourite dinosaur is triceratops (if dealing with small children) or archaeopteryx for kids old enough to know that birds are raptor dinosaurs.
why triceratops? trex is way cooler
Those are both cool, but neither is a Stegosaurus, which is obviously the coolest.
What’s your favorite dinosaur? I’ve personally always been a huge ankylosaurus fan.
In all seriousness, my favorite is actually Ankylosaurus as well. These things just look so cool
The coolest moment of my life was when my favorite dinosaur, the coelacanth, was discovered to still be alive. I was obsessed with this little known fish (for kids, no idea if it was better known among adults) and was super proud to be able to spell it, and then they found one!
And I told you that story because I so rarely get to, because nobody asks adults about their favorite dinosaur.
…fish are not dinosaurs
That’s… absolutely not a dinosaur.
I just looked it up, and they were rediscovered in 1938, too. I’m absolutely not in my late eighties, so I guess this is just a good example of how weirdly wrong our early memories can be (at least mine are).
Ok so first of all you were right it was a big deal when Coelacanth was rediscovered. Don’t give up so easy, that person is just saying it was a fish not a dinosaur.
Some of my favourite dinos:
ljook at all those chickenn