Dr. Albert The Scientist!

I thought this activity deserved it's own blog post. On our first day, one of the very first assignments we had was to Draw A Scientist. Now, from being in a collegiate education program for almost 3 years now, I knew the catch to this was to find the stereotypes of a scientist, but I let my my first day of class excitement and my inner child take over and I doodled away.

Some of the stereotypes of a scientist are:
- they wear glasses
- have crazy hair
- work in a messy work place
- are male
- are lonely

It does need to be addressed that these are ONLY stereotypes. Plenty of women have had amazing impacts in the world of Science and have had their hand in many crucial scientific discoveries. I conformed to the stereotyping even more when I named my scientist Dr. Albert. Yes, I was thinking of the infamous Albert Einstein when I drew this, but him being one of the most influential scientist of all times, I thought it was only appropriate to dedicate this picture to him.

After we were all done, we took a walk around the classroom to see what everyone had drawn. It was a lovely gallery walk. It gave everyone a chance to see the thought process that each person in the class had. I think this is a great way of sharing with out taking the time of each individual person sharing their work.

I think this activity was awesome. It was fun for college students, I can't imagine how fun an elementary school child would find it. I definitely plan on adding this to my teacher tool box to use in the future!