Our STEM Outreach in Schools program (stemOS) visited 6th grade science classrooms in the Fall of 2022. Visit the stemOS page for more information about our program! We are currently recruiting volunteers for curriculum design for classroom visits to an 8th grade classroom in the Spring of 2024.
With the stemOS program, we partner with a local school and work with classroom teachers to design experiments and activities to help enhance their STEM curriculum. Through collaboration with these classroom teachers we assess the effectiveness of these activities. Interested graduate students and post-doctoral scholars can e-mail Kendra if they are interested in becoming involved in this NSF-funded outreach program.
As scientists, we are sometimes asked or would simply like to “do something sciency” for a local school or a kid for whom we’re an important adult. Here are a few “DIY” or “open” science activities that I’ve designed to be both didactic and fun and have done in partnership with classroom teachers at the lower elementary level.
Frederick Lab 