Kevin Keller/ Science Detectives/ Ignite@ASU #4

Kevin: "My major is Chinese and I'm a senior in the Barrett Honors College. During the spring of 2009 I lived in Guilin, China, and worked as an English teacher for approximately 200 teenagers. My sixth grade class had science lessons right before English; one day I walked in to find the blackboard covered with complicated electricity diagrams and equations, and when a student asked me help I was completely unable to respond. Here was a group of fifty 12-year olds, all of them completing sophisticated physics calculations! I was astounded and I was inspired to create Science Detectives.
Working with several longtime friends, I hammered out a semester long after school program at elementary schools. Each week an ASU student would act as class instructor; each lesson was based on a mystery (for example, how do whales stay warm?), and we focused heavily on familiarizing the kids with the scientific method." Watch his video to see how small solutions can create big change.

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