p>Preferred qualifications include: • At least 60 college credits, where required by the applicable assignment or site;
• Experience teaching, tutoring, coaching, mentoring, or leading activities with school-age students;
• Comfort explaining age-appropriate science concepts through engaging, hands-on instruction;
• Strong communication, organization, and classroom facilitation skills;
• Availability to provide services for the accepted assignment schedule and communicate schedule issues as soon as reasonably practicable; and.
Assignments may include topics such as:
• Everyday chemistry using safe household materials;
• States of matter and simple chemical reactions;
• Kitchen science and food chemistry;
• Cleaning science and how soaps and surfactants work;
• Simple machines, force, and motion;
• Engineering and design challenges using common household materials;
• Environmental science, recycling, ecosystems, energy, and sustainability;
• Observation, experimentation, measurement, and the scientific method; and.