Helen Patrick

Dr. Helen Patrick is a Professor of Educational Psychology in Purdue University's College of Education. Her teaching and research focus on promoting positive classroom environments that promote students' learning, understanding, and motivation. Sh has worked in numerous elementary schools in Michigan, Illinois, and Indiana. For the past seven years she has worked with teachers and children in ethnically-diverse kindergartens, focusing on ways to successfully integrate teaching "big ideas" of science with reading and writing activities. Read more about this Scientific Literacy Project, funded by the US Department of Education, at http: //www.purduescientificliteracyproject.org/.