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Hi, my name is mingh whitfield. I am a pre/k-k teacher at lansdowne friends school. I enjoy participating in an inquiry based science education. The approach allows my students and me to experience, explore, and wonder about our world together. It also posits me as a learner too! The most interesting suppostion of the morning's session that your "take" on science is authentic, as long as it inspires cuiosity and skepticism. The virtual games of the afternoon contained useful lessons for teaching theory, ie sometimes order comes out of chaos, both genetic and environmental influences contribute to behavior. I often find computers helpful in gaining personal knowledge. But, I do not use them in the class with very young children. They are mainly about the magic of pushing buttons and playing games, or several children watching a few do such things. In short, for the very young, science should be about doing, experiencing, and fully engaging all senses in order to experience, question, and understand the world.