Utilizing interactive distance learning in the classroom, your students can explore science concepts, technologies, and events previously limited by geography. With the ability to connect multiple classrooms, distance learning allows students from different schools and environments to work together, teaming up for a highly effective learning encounter. Interactive distance learning transforms students from passive to active participants in the education process and into integral pieces in a virtual science experience! 

COSI's Virtual Museum

These forty-minute sessions were developed using established National Science Standards as a framework for fun interaction! Prior to the sessions, teachers are mailed a package of materials, curriculum, and extensions for their classes to participate in during their upcoming lessons. These live sessions present science concepts featuring a COSI WOW! introduction, followed by group explorations between the COSI Team and your classroom. These learning modules complement classroom curriculums, and all sessions are personalized with the format adjusted according to the ages and ability levels of the participating sites.

Physical Science Modules include:

Motion Mania: Grades K-8, 45 minutes
Introduce your students to the forces of movement by performing experiments implementing Newton's Laws of Motion.

Electricity: Grades K-8
Students will explore the concepts and principles of electricity. Activities to be do on like and unlike charges, current flow, conductors, static electricity, and parallel and series circuits.

Energy: Grades K-12, 45 minutes
Find out the principles behind Energy and its many forms, none of which looks like Energy.

Heart of the Matter: K-12, 45 minutes
Everything around us is Matter is one form or another. The air we breathe, the food we eat, the books we read, our bodies-all of these things consist of Matter.

Sports Physics: Grades 9-12, 45 minutes
Gyroscopic Motion, Rotational Inertia, and Gravity are concepts covered in this session geared toward older students.

20/20 Science: Grades K-12, 45 minutes
Light, Lasers, and Optical Illusions are used to describe the journey light takes from formation until it becomes an image in our brains.

Roller Coaster Science: Grades K-8, 45 minutes
The fun of amusement park physics is revealed in this fun and exciting session.

Magnetism: K-5
This learning module will investigate, and discuss concepts of magnetism. Activities will be done on magnetic properties, magnets from magnetic substances, and electromagnetism.

Sounds of Science: Grades K-8
Waves, vibrations, compressions, and rare fractions are all a part of this session discussing sound energy.

Simple Machines: Grades 4-12
Simple Machines make-work easier by using Mechanical Advantage. This session uses levers, pulleys, and inclined planes to show how.

Space Science: Grades K-8
Space Science shows why it is necessary to have an understanding of Space before we attempt to travel in it.

The Never-ending Chain: Polymer Science: Grades 8-12
Monomers, cross linking, and super absorbent polymers are examined in this session about the importance of Polymers in our everyday life.

Life Science Modules include:

Fill'er Up: Nutritional Chemistry to Fuel Your Bodies: Grades K-12, 45 minutes
Using foods like marshmallows, cereal, and Jell-O, this session explores how food provides our bodies with essential nutrients they need to build and maintain themselves.

“That’s Just Sick!”: Grades K-8
Burps, farts, poop, pee, vomit, and boogers are part of this fun program studying the science behind some of the disgusting parts of the human body.

Journey Inward: Exploring the Human Body: Grades K-12, 45 minutes
This session describes how the basic units of our bodies work together to form the internal working systems of the body.

The Healthy Heart: Grades 7-12
Through the use of dissection components of the heart, blood flow, and heart disease are examined in this very hands on session. To assist this program, COSI Toledo will provide sheep hearts to the classroom. Classrooms will need to furnish dissection trays and dissection kits. Eye protection is strongly recommended.

Earth Science Modules include:

Atmospheric Adventures: Grades K-8, 45 minutes
Following this session, your class may be able to "forecast" the weather better than the 6 o'clock news.

Science Rocks: Grades K-8
Properties of minerals of rocks and minerals, the different types of rock, and the Earth’s layers will be studied in this session.

Dinosaurs: Grades K-5
Explore a variety of fossil replicas and animal artifacts as we help students understand how scientists learn about dinosaurs. Discover some of the things we may never know about dinosaurs!

Mathematics Modules include:

What’s the Chance?: Grades 1-8
Students explore probability or “chance” by observing the predictable and unpredictable outcomes associated with games of chance.

Cost for each session is $170 plus line charges
Purchase 30 sessions for $125 each plus line charges
Purchase 60 sessions for $100 each plus line charges

Price includes Class interaction kit for 30 students including:

• Teacher's Guide
• Module Outline
• Sample Hands-on Activities
• Interactive Group Exploration Materials
• Post-event Extension Activities
• References and Resources

Faculty Interactive Distance Learning Q&A

These thirty-minute interactive sessions are designed to demonstrate distance learning technology possibilities to teachers, administrators and curriculum directors. These fun sessions highlight COSI Toledo’s usage of IDL and challenge schools to exploit the "boundary-free" technology for learning. Cost per session is $60 plus line charges.

iSCI - Interactive Science

Have you ever looked to the stars and wondered what it is like to live in space? Would it be safe for teenagers to travel in space?

How would you design a habitat for a leatherback sea turtle? How would you monitor its health, diet, and environment?

The NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio and the John G. Shedd Aquarium in Chicago, Illinois are just two well respected science organizations that have partnered with COSI Toledo to explore these questions through the iSCI Project. Students have joined us for videoconferencing sessions connecting them directly to NASA and Shedd Aquarium scientists, researchers, and engineers.

Utilizing distance learning technology and project-based learning methodologies, this program connects students with scientists and the latest science, math and technology research. Students consult scientists from NASA, Shedd Aquarium, Fermi National Accelerator Lab and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute to gather research and solve real problems. A great interdisciplinary project for 7-12 grade classrooms! This is a FREE program offered to Ohio classrooms.
For more information, visit the web site at www.cositoledo.org/isci or please call Andy Campbell at 419.244.COSI, ext. 150.