Draw a Scientist — eigenmotion

Hi.

I’m Victoria, and this site mostly has my sewing projects and science writing, with a sprinkling of older poetry & etc.

I’m a prairie kid, parent of two, celiac, and like lane swimming. I love to research. I did my undergrad in physics & English with a math minor. I’m now doing a Master’s in economics.

A note about the blog title: in math and physics, the prefix eigen means one's own. It comes from the german, but mostly I always liked thinking about a particle's eigenvalues, and thought I might apply the same thought to my excursions.

Sep 22

Sep 22 Draw a Scientist

Victoria Martinez

Kids' Science, Science

The Draw a Scientist test is a classic, and one that I think about a lot (see my communications talk). Kids tend to draw a very specific type when asked to draw a scientist, and I bet you can guess what that looks like. If not, see the paper linked above. I hope that teaching science as an oddball 25-year-old shifts what my kids think of as a scientist. In fact, one of the kids in class explained to another kid "That a scientist is like Victoria the Teacher. She does science for little kids! And other science too."

And then one of the 6 year olds drew this in her science notebook from summer camp. Perfection.

A sampling of other beauties: [WRG]