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Opportunities for Faculty

Help Create Programs and Assist in Writing Curriculum.

Science Explorers: Each year Science Discovery staff, faculty, and other scientific experts create a curriculum around a particular theme to be presented to teams of teachers and students across the state. Faculty are recruited to assist SD staff in creating activities, writing background information for the teacher curriculum, editing the curriculum for scientific accuracy, and to serve as a scientific resource for the presenter training. This is fun, creative work.

Time commitment: This will vary a great deal depending on how you want to contribute and how much time you are willing to give, anywhere from 10 to 40 hours.

Science From CU: Science From CU is a perfect vehicle to fulfill outreach components of research grants. Each year Science Discovery publishes a catalog of presentations that go to K-12 classrooms, senior centers, and libraries all over the state. Many of these presentations are developed in collaboration with individual University of Colorado at Boulder faculty or departments. Often a research grant will support the development and delivery of these programs. Science Discovery provides the infrastructure for booking and presenting the programs. Usually 50 minutes in length, Science From CU programs are designed to be highly interactive, exciting, and utilize materials that are not usually available in a teacher’s classroom. If you are not interested in creating a completely new program, we can use your assistance in reviewing existing programs, help make the presentation more reflective of current research, infuse the program with additional exciting demonstrations, or work on pre and post activities and information for teachers.

Time commitment: To create a new program will take a minimum of 40 hours working with SD staff. This can be a fun and interesting project for graduate students or a dedicated undergraduate student. Time commitment for upgrading an existing program will vary.

After-school and Summer Classes, The Outdoor Classroom and Wilderness Camps: Help us create a new class or a segment of one of our Outdoor Classroom programs or summer camps. Refine an environmental study for the Outdoor Classroom. Science Discovery is always on the lookout for new ideas for classes and camps. We need your scientific expertise.

Time commitment: Depends entirely on what you want to do.

For more information, contact Carol McLaren by phone at 303-492-4839 or e-mail jeffrey.kidder@colorado.edu.