ABSTRACT
This chapter summarizes the classroom study, and presents additional examples of teaching science through embodied learning. The study expanded what it is to comprehend text by having the students embody a new text based on information in the original text. The chapter also summarizes how students represented main ideas from science information texts as a tableau. The synthesis is divided between the process of representation when students discussed the text and practised their ideas for a tableau and the final tableau representation presented to the rest of the class. The creation of tableau was a collaborative activity conducted in a particular classroom context. Embodied actions based on concepts of the dissolving process and reversible changes that occur in different materials were based on re-enactments of liquid into ice and watching and listening to an effervescent tablet being placed into a glass of water.
