Because it was the first day of school — and because she had experienced that very sensation that morning — fourth-grade teacher Julie Tozer asked her students, “What does it mean if your hands get clammy?”

“Hard?” one of the students at Flora M. Singer Elementary School in Silver Spring ventured, before another student responded: “Slippery and soft and sweaty.”

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