Jackie Chan's Show of Class

By Stephen M. Silverman

07/22/1998 at 12:00 AM EDT

There was nothing dry about yesterday's class visit at the Achievable Dream School in Newport News, Va., reports the Associated Press. While the kids were expecting to hear about flying from some visiting NASA scientists, they instead got movie star Jackie Chan -- who stepped out of a white limo on campus to film an episode of "The NASA 'Why' Files," to be broadcast on PBS stations next month. "Anything that can help children about education, I go," the "Shanghai Noon" star, 46, told the AP as he visited classrooms and even demonstrated a kung fu move or two. "When I saw him my heart started to beat fast," said student Shatasha McPhatter, 11. "I felt like I was dreaming."