Compiled by the Minnesota Environmental Education Association

 

-You regard tornadoes and floods as teachable moments.
 
-Almost nothing in your classroom is now being used for its original purpose.
 
-For at least part of your career, all your worldly belongings fit in the back of a beat up car.
 
-You can quote the Lorax chapter and verse for any environmental situation.
 
-Your binoculars cost more than your car.
 
-Even your good shoes are muddy boots.
 
-You think hip clothes? are waders.
 
-You have a script of vague phrases memorized as the explanation of your field of study.
 
-You check other on forms where it asks for the science you teach.
 
-When someone says you are outstanding in your field,they mean you are out, standing in a field.
 
-Your spouse will no longer drink tap water or eat oysters after hearing about your students research in water quality.
 
-None of your adult friends want to go for walks outdoors with you for fear of having to sing Bats Eat Bugs? with you.
 
-Your briefcase is full of weird little toys and gadgets.
 
-You pick apart any scat you find.

(Email from "J. Michael Nolan" <mnolan@RAINFORESTANDREEF.ORG>, 12 Oct 2006)