Engagement Options
Ways to Share Your Science
Delight K-6 students as you lead amazing, engaging science lessons in East Bay schools through our Bay Area Scientists Inspiring Students (BASIS) program.
Give teachers and students the opportunity to interact with real-life scientists and engineers, changing students' perceptions of who scientists are and what they do.
CRS will train your team to communicate your research, conduct experiments, and share your love of science with the next generation!
- 45-60 minute hands-on lessons, Grades K-6
- Choose to visit one classroom per month or at the frequency that works best for you.
- Your team(s) can consist of 1-6 colleagues per lesson
Become a vital part of the science teaching experience! With regular visits to the same classroom.
Over the course of your visits, you will have the opportunity to share about your science journey and assist students in multiple science experiments.
CRS will train your team to communicate your research, conduct experiments, and share your love of science with the next generation!
- 4-6 weekly sessions with the same class of students for Grades K-7
- Your team(s) can consist of 1-6 colleagues per series of lessons
Lead a table at one of our “Day of Science” Science Festivals. We set up 3-4 tables of activities that students rotate through. Each table teams presents simple, fun science activities for multiple class groups of students throughout the school day.
Days of Science are a great option for a staff day of service.
CRS will train your team to be succesful in leading these table top activities.
- Sessions last one whole school day, from 8:30-3:00 and can be broken into multiple shifts.
- Your team can consist of 6-20 colleagues per Day of Science (in one or more shifts during the day)
Help bring science to life, and show connections to kids' lived experiences, by sharing a story featuring African American, Latinx, Native American, or other underrepresented men and women of color in science. Our list of books is growing, and we welcome your suggestions.
Following the featured story, you will lead the class in a simple hands-on science experiment. such as the chromatography of coloring markers or an engineering experiment about storm water drains.
CRS will train your team how to read to a classroom and conduct the experiment.
- 1 hour sessions for grades TK-2 (about 30 minutes for each section).
- Teams consist of 1-2 people