Breathe easy

COVID safety in the classroom can have unintentional results. After a comprehension exercise in Biology, a student wearing her voice muffling facemask, put up her hand and asked me to explain “How do spiders breathe?  I spent several minutes boarding up diagrams and asking Socratic questions so the class would eventually ‘discover’ the answer. I asked the student “Does that answer your question?” She replied “No, Miss”. I asked her if she didn’t understand the explanation. The reply came……”Yes, it was easy to understand, but what I wanted to know was how spiders BREED!