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17 Tell kids how you became a scientist show by your example that they could too.If youre trying to help out at your neighborhood school a lot of it is just exposure. A lot of my kids dont know what scientists do. A lot of my kids dont have exposure. They can sayI want to be an engineer but theyve never met one. Tansey has an example of a battleship scenario he uses. He tapes a grid on the floor of the classroom and tells the kids they need to stop three battleships from coming to D.C. They see the trajectory on the grids and they figure out where to lay mines to stop the ships. Then they turned those results into equations using lengths of yarn to show how far different engines could travel in ten seconds. He also uses M.C. Escher drawings to figure out how to isolate variables and figure out what aspects of the drawing make it trick your eye. What To Do What NOT To Do David Tansey Share Your Joy Dont lecture.Thats never exciting. Sometimes you have to but let that be the teachers problem. Dont be adding to the boring parts of class add to the active parts. Dont make them think scientists just sit around all day listening to lectures. Dont come in unprepared.Youre not adding to their world by just showing up. If youre going to do it do it right. Image courtesy Robin Kempster