How the performing arts can teach kids concepts in science

Inside a second-grade classroom at Speas Global Elementary School, students learn science from a couple of special guests — students from Wake Forest. Theatre professor Brook Davis created the class more than 20 years ago. “I started to realize that there were a lot of theater students who ended up in classrooms… that didn’t have a lot of practical experience about how you work with students,” Davis told WFDD. Davis and education professor Alan Brown created a course that merged the two groups to design creative and engaging ways to teach.