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COSI Columbus

333 W. Broad St
Columbus OH 43215
United States
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Contact: Electronic Education
Email: electroniceducation@mail.cosi.org
Phone: (614) 228-2674 ext. 0

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COSI Columbus is among the country's most highly respected science centers. For over 40 years, COSI has empowered more than 15 million visitors by helping each to find their true learning potential. COSI distinguishes itself by creating programs and experiences that make science learning fun through hands-on discovery.

Connect to COSI Columbus to Explore Science and Discover Fun! Our videoconferences are designed to be learner-led and involve the whole class. All programs involving hands-on activities come with a kit of materials that has everything you need, including a teacher's guide that classroom teachers helped develop. Join us for live surgery, simple machines, weather, autopsy, or experts!

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Educator Comments:
Our Forensics class has had the COSI Columbus Autopsy program presented for several years now. It is well done and very informative. The kids get a new understanding of the reality of an autopsy rather then the entertaining ones commonly shown on TV.

COSI Columbus is one of my all-time favorites. The quality of the teacher materials that accompany the videoconferences is a great selling point.

COSI Columbus offers a variety of programs and experts. I connect with this content provider more than any others during the course of the year.

COSI Columbus has great programs for students at all grade levels. Their content integrated seamlessly into our curriculum.

COSI's presenter Andy is always engaging with the students.

Their Gadget Works program is great!!!

The pre and post conference preparation was excellent as well as the conference. We did the autopsy conference. The teacher and other staff who participated were very impressed with the focus on science and detective work that made this fun and safe for all.

The surgery sessions from COSI Columbus provide students with experiences that they would not otherwise get. The Gadget Works session exemplifies hands-on interactivity during videoconferencing.

COSI offers academic programs aligned to the needs of the children our building serves.

COSI, with the engaging Professor Gadgeteer, actively involves students in discovering simple machines.

I have experienced the GadgetWorks program with my students the last 4 years and they come away with a great knowledge of simple machines.

Our students particularly enjoyed the COSI lesson with hands on experiment and a presenter that had demonstrations for each concept discussed.
Both of these had several schools involved in the same conference and the students were a bit disappointed they weren't called on for more questions.

These providers offered positive experiences for our distance education learners.

They always offer multitudes of learning opportnities for the student and teacher

Excellent presentations and support.

cosi was a great interactive experience for my kids

Quality of content and activities pre and post events powerful and standards aligned in the lesson plans.

Our students love their programs and can't wait for them to be presented. The interaction is wonderful!

Loved the Gadget Works from COSI Columbus and the DLN overs such diverse, free and interesting sessions how can they not be rated the best!

Variety of programs offered for different grade levels. Shares "stuff" with students to make presentation meaningful

excellent presenter

Our schools love the COSI Columbus autopsy and surgery connections! They are top notch.

They provide hands-on materials for students and the presenters are always focused on the interaction components

COSI Columbus continues to provide amazing opportunities for our students through their Surgical Suite and Autopsy programs. Connecting to one of these programs is enough to energize teachers and to get administrators excited about videoconferencing opportunities.

They offered intriguing hands-on activities that they offered.

The live knee surgery is an amazing program and very informational.

Hands on activities were provided, which students enjoyed. Great for younger students.

COSI programs are exciting and always include authentic learning.

Really creative presenter

COSI offered a delicious selection of offerings. The one we selectecd was done in an organized way and delivered with excitement for the experience of videoconferencing in addition to excitement of the content of the lesson.

This content is appropriate for numerous grade levels and is very interactive.

They did a fantastic job of providing materials for our students to use during the videoconference. They made the conference a fun hands-on learning activity. Their experience with children was evident in their questioning and management techniques to keep the children focused. It was an overall GREAT experience with them.

very interactive, use of kits and movement activities for students. students use kits to do activities

I have participated in several COSI programs and they have been excellent programs.

They have quality presenters who are excellent working with students AND teachers in professional development situations.

This was a very useful science project involving the hands-on activity of dissassembling gadgets to discover what simple machines made it work. It was a great presentation and I hope to do it again next year. It really added to my simple machine lessons.

COSI provides excellent content, presenters and are very organized.

COSi Columbus - Lots of great programs from the surgeries to the expert programs. Something for everyone and always knowledgable instructors.

COSI's hands on activities can't be beat.

COSI Columbus offeres programs that are engaging and interesting while addressing curriculum standards.

COSI Columbus is always easy to book, fast with their confirmations, great with back-up for test calls, prompt with answers to questions and their programming is always in demand!

COSI always provides an excellent resource to jazz up classroom lessons. The kits sent ahead of the presentation make the whole process run smoothly.

COSI Columbus for the Surgical Suite Knee Replacement - very informative for students.

COSI Columbus has excellent medically related offerings including Open heart surgeries They have great presenters in other areas as well including crab disection.

Their video conferences are the best. They have really neat lessons and aways send kits so that the students can conduct their own experiments. Students get a lot from COSI Columbus

COSI Columbus offered live operations. Our health classes have loved them!

COSI Columbus offers SUPERIOR surgical suite opportunities. The packets and interaction are top-notch. Michele Carlisle, Gift and Instructional Technology Specialist - TCHESC

COSI has been simply wonderful at every age and every program every time! They are #1 in this class.

The COSI presentations are engaging and the classroom materials supported the v.c.

This information was last updated on: 12/03/2009