Each person took it, transformed it into something different, and passed it on. The ball became a moth, then a smile, then an umbrella, then something different. Activities like this are helpful in warming up the imagination, enlivening the body, and awakening attention. We usually expect students to arrive at school in a machine, cross an engineered intersection, pass down a hallway that consists of externalized equations, enter a Euclidian classroom, remove the headphones connected to the Walkman, turn in their IBM cards, sit in a quadratic chair, open a book manufactured with computer technology, adjust the chemical fabrics of their synthetic clothing, peer through the laws of optics automated into designer frames, and suddenly be able to respond to Shakespeare. Compared to this jump, space travel seems a trivial journey.
Some transition helps.