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Here’s a website worth checking out for creating random groups for the classroom and beyond: https://www.randomlists.com/team-generator

The following picture is inspired by how Andy Goldsworthy arranges leaves with their naturally bright pigments to make vivid photographs.

You can see some much more amazing leaf designs from Andy Goldsworthy here:

https://www.goldsworthy.cc.gla.ac.uk/image/?id=ag_03127&t=1

He painstakingly pins the leaves in place using thorns.

Below is a cartoon musing about a scientist/biomimic/leaf hunter looking for especially aerodynamic leaves, fall leaves that have dried in unique configurations, that he tests in a portable wind-tunnel. He finds a good one and is pleased, imagining a new kite or airfoil design that will help generate energy.

Today, the hues of the world are unbelievably vivid. In the woods, the yellow leaves gleamed. The red leaves shone. The greens popped. Walking from tree to tree, the blanket of leaves underneath would change in texture and color, from the bright serrated red leaves to the greener leaves of an oak and the smooth lobes of a sassafras.

I watched a red eft navigate the leaves. If we were the size of the eft, we would be scaling a world of layers, of papers as tall as refrigerator boxes. Scaling first one wet leaf, and then another.