COSI In The Classroom Traveling Workshops
You can now bring several of COSI’s popular Field Trip Workshops right into your central Ohio classroom. These traveling versions of our workshops last one hour for up to 35 students at a time and are facilitated in your classroom by a COSI educator. Pre-visit materials are provided.
Price: $150 for session. Please call COSI at 614.228.2674 for reservations and program availability.
Please note these programs are currently available only in Ohio’s Franklin, Union, Delaware, Madison, Pickaway, Fairfield, & Licking Counties.
Please call 614.228.2674 for reservations and details. All workshops align to respective Ohio Academic Content Standards.
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Magnets Are Fun Grades K-3
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Discover how the world around us pushes, pulls, drops, soars, and has its up and downs in a variety of hands-on activities. Your students develop an understanding of magnetic forces by building and racing a maglev train.
Standards - GLIs:
Science, Physical Science, K.1-5, 1.1, 1.3, 1.5-7, 3.1-4, 4.5, 5.3-4.
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Fight Germs, Stay Healthy
Grades 1-3
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Discover how our bodies protect us from germs and what we can do to keep germs from making us sick.
Standards - GLIs:
Life Science: 1.5, 2.2; Scientific Inquiry: 1.1-3, 2.1-5, 3.1-2, 3.4; Scientific Ways of Knowing: 1.2, 1.3, 2.4, 3.4, 3.5
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A Visit from George Washington Carver
Grades 1-6 |
Bring a famous African-American scientist into your classroom. “Dr. Carver” (played by Leonard “Mr. COSI” Sparks) will describe his life and times, and will engage your students in a science experiment.
Standards - GLIs:
Science, Physical Science 1.3, 1.4, 4.1, 4.3, 6.1, 6.3, 6.4
Social Studies, People in Societies, 2.4, 5.3.
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Gross Science: Inner Workings of the Human Body Workshop
Grades 4-6
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Students will gain a better understanding of blood, runny noses, and upset stomachs.
Standards - GLIs:
Life Science: 6.1; Scientific Inquiry: 4.1, 5.1, 6.2, 6.3; Scientific Ways of Knowing: 4.1, 5.2, 6.3, 6.4.
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Garbology
Grades 4-8
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Explore the impact trash has on our planet, and redesign a common product to reduce its impact on the earth.
Standards - GLIs:
Understanding Technology 5.1, 6.2; Science: Science and Technology: 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.2; Science: Physical Sciences: 4.2, 4.3; Science: Earth and Space Sciences: 5.5
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Crazy Coasters
Grades 4-8
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Learn how physics makes roller coasters possible and how physics concepts relate to our world.
Standards - GLIs:
Physical Sciences 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 8.4, 8.5
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Sugar: Friend or Foe
Grades 5-8 |
Examine a simple food chain to understand how photosynthetic cells convert solar energy into chemical energy in food.
Standards - GLIs:
Life Sciences: 5.1-4, 7.7; Scientific Inquiry: 4.1, 5.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.3, 7.4, 8.1; Scientific Ways of Knowing: 5.2, 6.3, 6.4, 7.3.
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DNA: The Foundation for YOU
Grades 9-12 |
Explore the structure of DNA and how it relates to the cellular structure and expression of characteristics.
Standards - GLIs:
Life Science: 10.5, 10.6, 10.7, 12.1, 12.4, 12.5, 12.6
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