Filson Company<\/a> has been selling tin cloth since 1879.<\/p>\nThe project is a practical one for Good, who raises beef cattle, poultry and vegetables on his acreage a few miles from Eastern Mennonite School campus, in addition to teaching science full time. The timing of his outdoor adventure education class and the need to re-coat his pants was serendipitous.<\/p>\n
The semester-long elective class is made up of mostly juniors and seniors, the vast majority who are staying \u201cvery engaged\u201d in this time of distance learning, says Good. \u201cI ask them to put in an hour block outside on the days we have class,\u201d he says. They do an activity from the list of outdoor challenges he provides \u2014 or one they identify on their own \u2014 and then write about it.<\/p>\n
Activities include:<\/p>\n
\u2013 walking or hiking in nature and paying attention to what you see, hear, small and touch
\n\u2013 cooking wild foods using recipes provided by Good
\n\u2013 bird watching and listening to their songs
\n\u2013 mountain biking<\/p>\n
The tin cloth recipe is simple, explains Good, while tinkering away in his lab. \u201cJust melt together the wax and linseed oil, \u2018paint\u2019 it on the cotton cloth, and then bake it to soak in. I hang it in my furnace room.\u201d<\/p>\n
Wet spring days are a perfect time to put the tin cloth pant covers to use, and a lesson the students will remember along with all their COVID-19 out-of-the-classroom learning.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Lee Good, science teacher and gentleman farmer, loves a hands-on, practical project. The projects are more fun with students in the room, but COVID-19 didn\u2019t stop Mr. Good from cooking up a lesson for himself and students to try at home. The project: making your own \u201ctin\u201d cloth. Tin cloth is essentially waxed canvas fabric.\u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":28543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28542"}],"curies":[{"name":"gracias","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}