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They made elephant toothpaste. Moved like a river. Stirred up a batch of fake ice cream that actually looked delicious.<\/p>\n

What could those endeavors possibly have in common?<\/p>\n

They\u2019re all recent adventures enjoyed by local elementary school students, thanks to a variety of community and civic engagement programs staffed by Chapman University students and faculty this spring. Such activities are a mainstay of student life and community engagement at Chapman, but this semester was a particularly wriggly and gooey one for local youngsters.<\/p>\n

Following are just a few highlights of new activities launched this spring semester.<\/p>\n

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Alumnus Arnulfo Acosta introduces his former teacher, Jan Osborn, Ph.D., associate professor of English, to his fifth-grade class during a visit to Chapman. \u201cShe is the reason I am a teacher,\u201d he said.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

An electrifying visit<\/strong><\/p>\n

A field trip to Chapman is a tradition for the fifth graders at Jefferson Elementary School in Santa Ana, where alumnus Arnulfo Acosta \u201996 (teaching credential \u201900 and MA \u201904) has taught fifth grade for 20 years.<\/p>\n

But this year Chapman greeted the young visitors with an extra boost of science pizazz during the field trip they call \u201cJefferson Elementary Goes to College,\u201d organized by Jan Osborn, Ph.D.<\/a>, one of Acosta\u2019s former professors. Students oohed and aahed as Elaine Schwartz, Ph.D., associate professor of chemistry, invited two lucky volunteers to the front of Irvine Lecture Hall to make elephant toothpaste by combining hydrogen peroxide, food coloring and a chemical catalyst to create a spume of fluffy foam.<\/p>\n

In the next demo, sparks really flew. Using a Tesla coil and a keyboard, physics students wowed the fifth graders with a mini concert of crackling electricity that hopped in sync to music. The students, along with Justin Dressel, Ph.D.<\/a>, an assistant professor in Schmid College of Science and Technology<\/a> and a member of the Institute for Quantum Studies<\/a>, explained the science behind the show.<\/p>\n

Later the fifth-graders toured campus and lunched in Attallah Piazza. Acosta says the school can afford only one field trip a year for its fifth grade, and the Chapman visit continues to be the trip of choice.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe stuck with this one because we see how valuable the whole experience is for them. They get many things out of it. They get a sense of what it is to be at a university,\u201d he says. \u201cFor example, in the science presentation, they can see that college can also be very fun. Yes, we do make them aware that, of course, they\u2019re going to have to work hard, but it can be very fun and the things they learn will open their minds.\u201d<\/p>\n

When creative movement meets science<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Chapman dance students and youngsters from Sycamore Elementary School mimic flying as part of a creative movement class.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

What does it feel like to slither across a dance studio floor, mimicking the action of sand in motion?<\/p>\n

\u201cAwesome,\u201d said Anthony Thomas Salazar, a third grader from Sycamore Elementary School in Orange.<\/p>\n

And it was a memorable way to learn about creative movement, dance and the dynamics of erosion. Those lessons came together in the revised curriculum for the course Dance Education and Outreach. The course was redesigned and co-taught this spring by Julianne O\u2019Brien<\/a>, professor and chair of the Department of Dance, and faculty member Jennifer Backhaus<\/a> \u201994, founder of the award-winning Backhausdance company.<\/p>\n

Teaching Chapman students how to apply creative movement principles in K-12 education was the main goal. So first the Chapman students learned how to teach creative movement, which varies from dance technique. Then they used that knowledge to create science lessons they taught at the YMCA afterschool program housed at Sycamore Elementary School.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur students came up with great ideas that taught principles of erosion, tides, moon phases, the three different states of matter, and nutrition concepts through movement,\u201d O\u2019Brien said.<\/p>\n

The dance of sandy erosion the kids performed alongside their collegiate counterparts was part of the semester-end recital hosted at Chapman\u2019s Partridge Dance Center. And they even drew an audience of faculty from the Department of Dance and the Schmid College of Science and Technology.<\/p>\n

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Chapman students and their cohorts from Palmyra Elementary School in Orange display fake ice cream they dished up during a media literacy workshop.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

An extra scoop of media literacy, please<\/strong><\/p>\n

Luis Herrera and his wife Patricia were eager to learn more about how they could manage their children\u2019s television and computer time. So they signed on for a Tuesday evening media literacy workshop taught at Palmyra Elementary School by students from the School of Communication Studies<\/a>. Good decision, they said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe information about the TV ratings surprised me. That was a big awakening. They have their own rankings and they can say whatever they want in regards to the content level,\u201d Luis Herrera said.<\/p>\n

The advisory ratings and research about advertising\u2019s impact on children were just a few of the topics covered in the parent education program created by Chapman students, under the guidance of Riva Tukachinsky, Ph.D.<\/a>, assistant professor in the School of Communication Studies.<\/p>\n

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Sadly, the \u201cice cream\u201d is fake but the fun is for real as students stir up a gooey treat to fool the eye.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In an adjacent room, the families\u2019 children met with another group of Chapman students for a related program that showed them how to be wary of the flashy television ads for toys and snack foods.<\/p>\n

Palmyra parent Diana Cereceda especially enjoyed the parent comradery in the workshop.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re all parents facing some of the same problems and we can have solutions together,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The kids, however, might argue that the real fun played out in their room, where they enjoyed games, stories and a gooey craft connected to the evening\u2019s theme. The \u201cice cream\u201d they stirred up looked delicious, but it was mostly white glue mixed with starch and hair conditioner. As the evening ended, the kids delighted in pranking their parents with scoops of strawberry, mint and blueberry \u201cice cream.\u201d<\/p>\n

No doubt, it was a buyer-beware lesson everyone will remember.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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