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 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.
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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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Coming Soon! 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. Available early 2010.
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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Spy Intelligence Grades 3-6
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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
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Coming Soon! 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. Available early 2010.
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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Coming Soon!
Cooking with Chemistry
Grades 4-8
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Using their senses and items from the kitchen, your students will explore chemical and physical changes that are part of cooking. Available early 2010.
Standards - GLIs:
Physical Science: 4.1-4, 6.1-4; 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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Coming Soon!
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. Available early 2010.
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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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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Coming Soon!
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. Available early 2010.
Standards - GLIs:
Life Science: 10.5, 10.6, 10.7, 12.1, 12.4, 12.5, 12.6
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