P-12 Programs
Explore programs, services, and resources available to P-12 audiences. These include workshops, exhibitions, and performances.
Alternative Breaks
Alternative Breaks is a program of the Volunteer Resource Center. The program sends trips across the country (Spring) and abroad (Summer) to take place in a week long service project with a group of peers. Alternative Breaks accepts and trains leaders each fall. It is these leaders that guide their...
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American Music Research Center
The American Music Research Center is a joint venture of the University Libraries and College of Music devoted to the discovery of new information about American music and to the sharing of those discoveries with the wider community. The AMRC sponsors concerts and scholarly activities related to American music of...
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ArtsBridge
ArtsBridge is a community service learning project that engages public school students in hands-on arts education. In the classroom, high performing undergraduate and graduate art students provide exemplary models of arts teaching while focusing on integrating arts across the curricula. Teachers and college students develop projects collaboratively based on the...
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Astronomy Day at CU
Every year for the past decade, Sommers-Bausch Observatory and Fiske Planetarium have opened their doors to the public for a free, day-long CU Astronomy Day celebration. The Saturday date varies from year to year, but is usually held during the last two weeks in April shortly before school lets out....
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ATLAS Institute - Digital CUrrents
The ATLAS Institute (Alliance for Technology, Learning, and Society), in partnership with the National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT), sponsors a three-week hands-on summer workshop called Digital CUrrents. This program offers minority (e.g., African American, Native American, and Hispanic) and female high school and middle school students...
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Attention, Behavior, and Learning Clinic
The Attention, Behavior, and Learning (ABL) Clinic in the Department of Psychology provides comprehensive evaluations for children and adolescents in Boulder and surrounding communities. The program specializes in assessment of learning disabilities, attention problems, and other cognitive, emotional, or behavioral difficulties. The clinic is operated on a sliding scale so...
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AVID Tutoring
This is an outreach program that meets a requirement for a course taught in the School of Education. The collaboration involves sending CU-Boulder students that are participating in the Knowing and Learning teacher licensure course to various middle and high schools in BVSD to serve as AVID tutors. AVID is...
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Best of the CU Museum: Highlights of the Collection Guided Tour of the CU-Boulder Museum
(Recommended for 6th - 12th grades, and adults)
The CU Museum has the largest natural history collection in the Rocky Mountain region with more than four million objects. Sample the best from each of the exhibit galleries in this hands-on, interactive exploration of the Museum.
Guided programs at the University of...
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Biological Sciences Initiative
The Biological Sciences Initiative (BSI) envisions scientific literacy among all citizens, increasing their understanding of the relevance of science to their lives and empowering them to make informed health, environmental and political choices. To promote diversity and inclusiveness in the sciences and scientific literacy, BSI provides research, classroom and professional...
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BOLD Center
The BOLD (Broadening Opportunity through Leadership and Diversity) Center of CU-Engineering is committed to graduating an innovative and competitive engineering work force that is diverse in gender, ethnicity and socio-economic representation. BOLD's purpose is to break down the barriers that keep too many of today's young talent from reaching their...
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BUENO Center for Multicultural Education
The BUENO Center for Multicultural Education is an integral part of the School of Education at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Through a comprehensive range of research, training, and service projects, the Center strongly promotes quality education with an emphasis on cultural pluralism. The Center is deeply committed to...
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Business Research Division Outreach
Serving Colorado since 1915, the Business Research Division (BRD) of Leeds Business at CU-Boulder conducts economic and fiscal analysis, market research, and customized research projects. The division also annually produces a sector by sector economic forecast of the state's economy. This work helps companies, associations, nonprofits, and governmental agencies make...
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CARLA Lab: Comprehensive Adaptive Reading and Learning Assistance
The CARLA Lab is located at Institute of Cognitive Sciences (ICS) in Computational Language and Education Research (CLEAR) and is headed by Dr. Barbara Wise. Her team has conducted studies in computer-delivered reading assessment and intervention since 2004, working with other CU researchers and with St. Vrain Valley Schools, the...
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Center for Asian Studies K-12 Outreach
The Center for Asian Studies (CAS) on the Boulder campus of the University of Colorado brings together faculty, students, and community members to encourage and support Asian scholarship across disciplinary and college boundaries.
Through its three principal K-12 outreach programs, CAS annually offers opportunities for teachers ranging from Saturday workshops to...
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CIRES - Climate Literacy & Energy Awareness Network (CLEAN)
To provide students with accurate information about climate and energy science, educators require scientifically and pedagogically robust teaching materials. To address this need, the Climate Literacy & Energy Awareness Network (CLEAN) assembles a new peer-reviewed digital collection as part of the National Science Digital Library (NSDL) featuring teaching materials centered...
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CIRES - Education and Outreach
CIRES researchers explore all aspects of the earth system and search for ways to better understand how natural and human-made disturbances impact our dynamic planet. CIRES strongly supports and encourages education outreach. Programs exist for K-12 school districts, teachers and students, undergraduates at CU and elsewhere, and other community groups....
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CIRES - Education and Outreach Evaluation Services
Evaluation and assessment methodologies are designed and implemented for programs and proposals on an individual basis. Various tools and approaches are developed to assess how well a program's goals and objectives have been met. This often includes front-end (e.g., user needs assessments), formative (e.g., quarterly evaluation reports), and summative (e.g.,...
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CIRES - Geomagnetism in the MESA Classroom: An Essential Science for Modern Society
A four-part after-school module that allows students to explore geomagnetism with compasses, navigation exercises, and a caching activity, followed by a field trip to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's David Skaggs Research Center in Boulder.
Grade Levels: 10-12
Cost: Free
Time Needed:
One 90-minute in-class session
Students will receive
- an overview of...
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CIRES - Inspiring Climate Education Excellence
The Inspiring Climate Education Excellence: Teacher Professional Development for Effective Instruction in Climate Science Literacy. The ICEE project provides a face to face workshop, an online course and self-directed learning modules to help teachers learn to be Climate Literate. ICEE addresses important climate science content and the pedagogical skills necessary...
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CIRES - Regional National Ocean Sciences Bowl - NOSB
CIRES hosts the only regional National Ocean Sciences Bowl (NOSB) competition in a land-locked state, and receives teams from a large geographic area - Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Kansas. This quiz-show style competition is more diverse than most competitions, engaging schools which do not usually compete and...
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