My kids are currently in middle school.
I can not believe how fast they are growing up! It actually seems like yesterday that I was their age, doing the same thing.
But a lot has changed since my era of school. The other day, my youngest son came home and told me about what he had learned in science class. It wasn’t the usual things that I was used to to as a kid. My son was telling me that they were learning about today’s heating and air conditioning technology! I was a little confused how HVAC technology had anything to do with science class. But, my boy went on to explain. He was telling me that they were going on about how science was partly the reason for the great heating and air conditioning technology we have today. The best example they were giving the kids was about radiant heated floors. They said that it was actually rumored to have been a science teacher doing an experiment that discovered how hot water pipes can be used as a form of heating. I had never heard about that in my life, but after all, they did say it was just a rumor. My youngest boy was so interested in heating and air conditioning technology after this lesson, that he ended up going on the internet later than night and looking up a lot of information on heating and cooling via a google search. I really thought this was pretty darn awesome to be honest. In my day, we would have never learned a little about HVAC technology in middle school!