I have a class that meets first thing in the morning or last block of the day, every  other day.  Its hard because when its first, I feel everyone is still asleep and when its last everyone is ready to get the heck outaaa here!  How can you manage something like this?  I know my class management skills aren’t in the excellent range but I also know that I can handle a class, so that’s not the immediate issue.  How can you help kids to focus in these situations.  It is an intro science course so I can do pretty cool things and have leeway to do what I want but I still find I am running into the same issues!  Does anyone have any thoughts as to handling situations like this?  Has anyone been in a similar scenario?  Do I need to just power through?