Phys Ed; Friday, Third Period [03/10].

[sword_chocobro]

Class had been rerouted over to the Danger Shop today, but when the students arrived, they'd find Gladio scratching his head a little bit over the controls. Apparently, it was just not a good week for him and technology, and though he had something entirely different planned for the day, all he seemed to be able to pull up right now was an obstacles course very much in the style of a very classic platformer game, complete with little mushroom-like enemies and floating gold coins.

"Right," said Gladio, sighing as he realized he wasn't going to get this fixed in time, especially now that class was beginning. "So I guess we're doing obstacle courses today. Should be fun, right? These ones look like a lot of jumping in involved, so I guess you could kind of compare it to parkour, which is sort of figuring out how to move through an environment in interesting ways, usually with a lot of climbing and jumping to get past obstacles that most people would just walk around. And it can definitely be a good work-out, so let's take some time to stretch and warm out, we'll go over a few basic parkour moves, and then....well, we'll hit the courses, I guess, since the Danger Shop's not really giving me any other options right now.

"And definitely watch out for those little mushroom guys, they'll give you some trouble. The weird turtle guys, too...Anyway, lets'a go!"

....no, Gladio had no idea why he said it that way, and he didn't really care to find out, either.

An Introduction to Zoology - Friday, 1st Period

[itsananomaly]

Cutter’s date with Connor to the museum and been very … inspiring to say the least and it had given him at least one topic to cover in his class. He had actually been working on his lesson notes all week because there was so much to cover in this particular topic that he was considering that maybe expanding it to two lectures wouldn’t be a bad idea.

Rex was sleeping in Connor’s jacket on Cutter’s desk, he hadn’t been able to pry Rex from the jacket since it was still a little cold for him but decided to let him keep sleeping.

“You might remember this little guy from class last semester?” Cutter said with a fond smile while he gave Rex a gentle chin scritch as he slept, “this is Rex, he’s from the Permian period and the reason I brought him in today for class is to highlight just how prevalent the Cambrian Explosion was,”

Cutter had been a bit distracted by Rex so had decided to hand out notes notes before class started so that they were already on the students desk when they arrived.

“I did briefly talk about the Cambrian Explosion last week but I feel that it is such an important topic when talking about Evolution that it deserves a topic on its own, well really I could do an entire course on the Cambrian alone but that’s a topic for another time,” Cutter explained, “now the reason I brought Rex in specifically for today is that he was around at the same time as some of the creatures that were a result of the Cambrian Explosion, namely Trilobites - Trilobites are especially important to understanding our concept of Evolution and they were arthropods, marine animals and we know this because of the type of rocks they were found in.

“Trilobites first appeared in the Cambrian Period and became prevalent during the Cambrian and Ordovician Seas, they went extinct at the end of the Permian Period,”

At this moment, Rex began to wake up, letting out a sleepy yawn and perked right up when he saw Cutter and started chirping rather excitedly. Cutter gave him more scritches as he continued the lecture.

“There was no life on Earth at this point in the early Cambrian period,” he went on, “so life was contained to the seas, particularly in the ocean shallows … no life inhabited the ocean depths as well so that is what makes this explosion of life particularly fascinating, that they were able to form here and diversify in these regions,”

Rex continued to chirp happily and then at that point he took off and happily began flying around the room, it was a good thing both the door and windows were locked.

“I would like you to do a report on the Trilobites for next week and in particular I would like you to focus on their development and the role they played in early aquatic ecosystems,”

Library - Friday

[onlyajones]

When Jo came into the library after her class, she was surprised that all the books had turned green, which she found a little odd at the choice of colour and then it dawned on her why the books were green.

“I thought St. Patrick’s day was next week?” Jo blinked at all the green books in the library before shrugging and going to reshelve the books she had to put away before finding a couple of books on Trilobites so that she could begin her work for her report for class.

Practical Engineering - Friday, 4th Period

[notagoose]

Goose had actually remembered his class that week and had been organised enough for the topic that they were going to be covering.

“Good afternoon,” he began, “for today’s class we’re going to be working on a Mechanical Pick and Place Mechanism, earlier in the semester we looked at pulleys and this is compliments this component of mechanical engineering quite nicely” he explained.

“So I’d like you to spend the lesson working on mechanical pick and place machines, paying particular note to how it relates to the pulley mechanism,”