Programs for K–12 Students

Overview

CCMR Educational Programs Office (EPO) collaborates with teachers and the community to provide high-quality science education to K-12 students.

The CCMR EPO currently runs numerous programs that seek to improve the quality of K-12 science education. Faculty, postdoctoral associates, graduate students, undergraduates, and staff have developed and enhanced hands-on science lessons for classroom use.

In the past year, we have offered 160 separate educational outreach events and presented over 60 unique modules reaching approximately 55 undergraduates, 2,100 K-12 students, 295 parents of school children, 245 schoolteachers, and 15,000 Ithaca Journal newspaper readers.

The following are some of the modules: Edible Glass (Glass Transition); The Tortoise Always Wins (Friction); Wild Solutions, and Crystal Radio.

Graduate student Gil Toombes explaining magnetism to students at Groton Elementary School.