RESET CEO and Classroom Volunteer Harold Sharlin:
I teach science to two, three and four year olds at the NSF Child
Development Center in Ballston, VA.
Last Tuesday when I was working with my two year old day care
children I learned something about teacher involvement. I had
brought some small bar magnets for them to play with and discover
what magnets can do. When one boy found that he could not make a
North pole attract a North pole, I realized that he did not know his
letters (he was two after all) so I just turned the magnet around and
he was satisfied.
Then I heard laughter and looked at the end of the table where a
teacher was playing with three two year old girls and some magnets.
The teacher had never seen a bar magnet and was finding out what they
could do in attraction and repulsion. She and the girls were having
a grand old time learning the basics about magnets.
Isn't that what ReSET is about showing that science is fun?
Harold