Science Day 2019 Sign Up NOW OPEN!
This year on Reading Day (December 5th), Scientific Thinkers™ will be putting on our annual Science Day event at Innis Elementary. The day will go from 9am-3pm, with volunteer blocks from 9am-12pm and 1pm-3pm. But for this amazing day to happen, we need YOUR help!
We’ll have lots of different stations that we will need volunteers to help run. If you’re interested, sign up using the link below! As always carpooling will be coordinated for the day!
https://forms.gle/hht5SWSCoP5qF1xKA
Founded in 2010 by Professor Nandini Trivedi, Dr. Marci Howdyshell, and Michelle McCombs, Scientific Thinkers™ was an initial partnership with one teacher that over the following years gained both the support of additional teachers, multiple schools and the Center for Emergent Materials. Today, Scientific Thinkers™ is a partnership between the Center for Emergent Materials (CEM) at OSU and three Columbus Elementary Schools. Through the Scientific Thinkers™ program, undergraduate and graduate students from OSU STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) departments work with the first through fifth-grade science and mathematics teachers at the elementary schools to develop and teach hands-on science lessons to first through fifth-grade students. Everyone involved benefits from participating in this program.
Through the engagement with undergraduate and graduate students and faculty, our aim is to give the elementary school students an opportunity to learn what it is to be like a scientist and think like a scientist, giving them confidence in their own abilities and thinking skills which they will use in and out of school.
The Goal of the Program
This program encourages first through fifth-grade
students to always be curious and ask questions about the world around them. They gain confidence in themselves and their scientific abilities through interactions with scientists and exciting hands-on science experiments.
The teachers are given resources, in the form of ideas and supplies, that help them continue to integrate hands-on science into the classroom.
The undergraduate and graduate student volunteers gain unique practice at communicating scientific information to those outside the field. They also have an opportunity to reach out to the Columbus community and motivate the next generation of scientific thinkers!
Funding and support for Scientific Thinkers™ is provided by the Center for Emergent Materials at The Ohio State University.
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