Now That’s Using Your Cerebral Cortex! ReSET volunteers are passionate about science, and they’ll go to great lengths to communicate that passion to their students. These scientists-in-the-classroom employ some unique and truly innovative methods of engaging children in their STEM field of expertise: Philip Posner, who has a Ph.D. in Medical Physiology, shows his students…

Field Trip Report from RESET Program Specialist Shaheen Khurana With the school year drawing to a close, students from J.G Whittier school, along with their RESET volunteer Mike Goldstein, set out on a field trip to see “DREAM BIG: Engineering the World,” a giant-screen film about engineering showing at the Lockheed Martin IMAX Theater at…

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Thanks to ReSET volunteers Meghan O’Donoghue and Mariana Pavon, who led a science program they called “Goo!” at E.L. Haynes Elementary in DC this past term.  They have shared their experiments, which I’ve posted on the ReSET web site at the link below. “Our five week class finished last Tuesday, and I think it went…

RESET Volunteer Meghan O’Donoghue provides  descriptions of the goo curriculum below. SCIENCE Spring 2013 — At E.L. Hayes RESET Volunteers What Is a Polymer? A polymer is a substance formed from long chains of repeating units. The chains can be linked to each other. Polymers can be flexible, strong, and stretchy. How to Make Ooblek You will…

Cell bodies or synapses? https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/memories-may-not-live-in-neurons-synapses/?WT.mc_id=SA_Twitter#science