Back when I attended M.S. 101 in the Bronx, I tuned out the science teacher because I didn't think science was for me. I viewed the subject as something distant and inaccessible. I never saw myself becoming a scientist.
Things changed, however, when my physics teacher at Marie Curie High School used hip-hop to make connections with science. We learned about the physics of pendulums by using hip-hop artists' chains as examples and participated in call-and-responses to remember science information.
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