Ohio State partners with K-5 schools for teacher training in science

The Department of Chemistry’s Wonders of Our World program (W.O.W.) is hosting a training session to help elementary school teachers gain the tools for teaching science to K-5 students. The teacher training session is set to begin at 8:15 a.m. on Wednesday (4/10) at Wright Elementary School, 2335 W. Case Road.

Initiated in 1999, Ohio State’s W.O.W. program teaches basic concepts of the physical and biological sciences through hands-on elementary-level experiments. The program involves a close collaboration between Ohio State faculty and students, the entire faculty of each of the five Columbus-area elementary schools and local-area scientists.

The goals of the W.O.W. program are: to enhance the science literacy of elementary students and elementary school teachers; to increase the science material that elementary school teachers are comfortable presenting to their students; to increase the involvement of local area scientists, undergraduate science students and parents in important community projects; and to generate a model that can be used nationally by other scientists to assist science programs in other elementary schools.

The schools that take part in the program are: Chapman and Wright elementary schools in the Dublin City School District; Gables and Medary elementary schools and Ecole Kenwood in the Columbus City School District. The program involves about 2,500 elementary school students in 78 classrooms, approximately 90 elementary school teachers and about 130 volunteers from the science community.

WHAT:The Ohio State University’s Wonders of Our World program (W.O.W.) to host a training session for K-5 elementary school teachers.

WHEN: 8:15 a.m. on Wednesday (4/10).

WHERE:Wright Elementary School, 2335 W. Case Road.

WHY:To help K-5 elementary school teachers gain the tools for teaching science to K-5 students.