Scientists In Action

Grades 4-8 - Connecting Students with Scientists

Want to take your students on an amazing field trip? Scientists in Action connects students directly with scientists during a live broadcast from field sites or research labs. During these conversations, scientists demonstrate research techniques, share new discoveries, and demystify the scientific process. This educational telepresence creates a "being there" experience and opens a window into science careers. Students interact with and look over the shoulders of scientists who are conducting exciting, real world research. A previsit video is provided that highlights the scientist's work, familiarizing students with the content.

  • A previsit video is provided that highlights the scientist's work, familiarizing students with the content.
  • This virtual connection requires IP video-conferencing equipment. Colorado school districts with this capability included Aurora, Cherry Creek, Durango, Jeffco, Littleton, Pueblo, and Salida.
  • The system must be tested two weeks in advance.

FREE, 45 minutes

Session times: 9, 10 a.m., or 1 p.m.
Times listed are mountain standard time.

Questions? 303.370.6097 or gianna.sullivan@dmns.org

View archived video content by clicking here.

Distance Learning is supported by Ameriprise Financial.

  • Artful Science!

     

    Wednesday, February 29, 2012
     From the World Ethnology Collections storage area, get a peek into where and how we care for rare treasures of Latino and Hispanic culture, and have the chance to speak directly with one of the Rocky Mountains' leading Chicano artists.

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  • Ice Age Death Trap

     

    Wednesday, March 14, 2012
     In 2011 scientists raced against time to uncover a unique Ice Age dig site packed with astonishingly well-preserved bones of mammoths, mastodons, and other giant extinct beasts, opening a vivid window into the vanished world of the Ice Age.

     

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  • Bugging You

     

    Monday, April 16 and Tuesday, April 17, 2012
     Paula Cushing, PhD, curator of invertebrate zoology, will share her research on spider and solifugae diversity, as well as some of the live spiders that aid in her research.

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