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Field Trip Workshops
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 conducted in your classroom by a COSI educator. Pre-visit materials are provided.

Introductory rate: $125 for the first class; $100 for additional same-topic classes (scheduled back-to-back). 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.

COSI In The Classroom Traveling Workshops

Magnets Are Fun! Grades K-3

 
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.

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.
 

Spy Intelligence  Grades 3-6
Crack codes and determine "whodunit" by using process skills, scientific inquiry, and intuition to solve a mystery.

Standards - GLIs:
Science: Physical Sciences 4.1, 4.2
Science: Science & Technology 3.1
Mathematics: Number Sense & Operations 3.3
Mathematics: Data Analysis & Probability 4.13
 

Technology & Culture
Grades 6-8
Explore how innovations in science and technology shape us as human beings.

Standards - GLIs:
Science: Science & Technology 6.1, 7.1
Technology: Technology & Society Interaction A.6.2, A.7.2, A.8.3.
 
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