It helps to remind students that scientists and engineers can make higher salaries than lower paid professions. Do you think your elementary school students are starting to think of their long-term financial and lifestyle prospects?  The information below may be of use to supplement ReSET volunteers’ discussions of what sparked their interest in science and…

ReSET Volunteer George Pick sent the following message.  It could be hard to persuade our students it’s not magic… Hello everyone; Somebody sent this fascinating U-tube video. It is worth watching. George Pick Pendulum waves.  

Report on Ed Rock’s PreKindergarten experience:  “You almost always leave the pre-school with students telling you they LOVE you.  This is pretty life affirming, especially if you’re having a bad day!” Edward Rock may not have volunteered with RESET for very long, but he’s already feeling the love. The last six months, Rock, who has…

ReSET volunteer John Emler recently attended a science teaching session at the Greenbelt, MD Community Center.  Additional sessions are scheduled: June 22nd & 23rd: Chemistry: Introduce the basic concepts of chemistry and show how chemical reactions can be controlled. July 27th & 28th: Fluids: Introduce the concepts of viscosity, lift, drag and entrainment. John reports that the…

Mike Fritz, who helped me in the classroom this term, shared his experience with his co-workers at the US Environmental Protection Agency: As I strode to the front of Ms. Molly Moran’s second grade class at Annapolis Elementary School one June morning in downtown Annapolis, I was confident in my lesson plan, so elegantly simple…

Look at those smiles! ReSET finds creative ways to make science and math fun! “We’ve got to lift our game up when it comes to technology, and math, and science,” said President Obama in April 2011 at a town hall event held on Facebook’s Palo Alto, Calif. campus. President Obama’s remarks underscored his intention to…

The Washington Post on May 24 ran an article comparing average annual income of graduates with various majors.  It included the snarky joke (payback for all those nerd jokes)?: The scientist asks, “Why does it work?” The engineer asks, “How does it work?” The English major asks, “Would you like fries with that? Check it…

Bailey Elementary’s Science Coordinator Lynn Riggs sent the note below on this term’s ReSET program by Volunteer Kojo Opoku:   We had a great experience with Kojo. He worked very well with me as well as the classroom teacher. He was very dedicated, designing and preparing interesting experiments in electricity for the 4th grade students….

Report from RESET Volunteer Beverly Yett: The two things the students seemed to be most excited about were the facial reconstruction and what they called the bird beak experiment.  This was a bit of a diversion for me but I wanted to demonstrate both biodiversity and adaptive changes to the environment. The students made “cootie catchers” a simple origami form…

Better late than never: The final 2009 DC CAS Science Results released last year. The progress was small, but heading in the right direction… Press Release – The Progress Continues — DCPS Students Make Steady Improvement in Science Proficiency – DC Public Schools, Washington, DC