Dani's Intro

     Hi, my name is Dani Newell. I am a Junior at Drake University. I am majoring in Elementary Education, Early Education, and Special Education. I love kids and everything about them. I've been told since I was younger that I'd be a wonderful teacher someday. I love to cook also. I studied culinary arts for a couple years. Ultimately someday I would love to own my own business and teach special needs children how to cook. I'm from Plymouth, Minnesota. I love Minnesota but HATE the cold. Ironically, I love to play ice hockey and played for 11 years. I work as a nanny and for Caribou Coffee both at school and at home.

       I think our team was named Pike because of the things she and her team are doing in science. Some of the things I saw in the video I found very interesting. She is most certainly not following a stereotypical scientific method approach to her observations and research. As a future teacher I found her to be very intriguing. She is a very confident speaker and that is a very good quality to have as a teacher. I hope to at least seem as confident as she is when I am in my classroom teaching science someday.