1. Professional Development School Collaboration Department of Elementary Education and Reading ~Coralee Smith, Ph.D West Hertel Academy Mrs. Michelle Brown Mrs. Ann Thomas EDU 312 Teacher Candidates

3. Common responses: a fat textbook white lab coats bubbling beakers  All of those images reflect some aspect of science, but none of them provides a full picture because science has so many facets.

4.  Recipe:  15 Teacher Candidates ~ Created science experiences  75 Kindergartners ~ Participated  4 Teachers ~ Organized groups ~ snacks  6 Teacher Aides ~ Supervised groups  2 Administrators ~ Organized times ~ lab coats  1 School Science Teacher ~ Shared resources  1 College Professor ~ Facilitated

5. We Got Up and Roared! We Did Science Galore! An Afternoon of Hands-on, Minds-on Science for Kindergarten Students!

9. HANDS- ON, MINDS- ON SCIENCE! THEY DID ROAR!

10.  Include this experience every semester!  Expand to other grade levels  Have this experience at Open House

11. You are invited to “Get Up and Roar! With our Teacher Candidates THE ART OF TEACHING IS THE ART OF ASSISTING DISCOVERY. Mark van Doren

12. SPRING 2012 Ryan Cummings Stacey Suto Fall 2012 Cory Martin Andrea DeMonte Elizabeth Scholl Michael Masich Chelsey Broderick Andrea Hopkins Cory Martin Caitlin Labert Samatha Emmons Richard Beck Jessica Parzych Shanae Nunn Dorcus Dejesus Brandon Hodgins Mary Johnson Jin Yong Zheng Baomei Zheng Kari Barmore Garrett Pierce Danielle Lisbon Amanda Bullers Julie Goodrich