Hands On Science
Outreach

Our Approach
Adult Leader Training
Locations
Research & National
    Standards
Meet Us
- Staff
- Board of Directors

Adult Leader Training HOSO Adult Leader training shows participants how to: Lead informal science activities using our guides. Connect science and play. Use simple, common materials to set up experiments and explorations. Ask questions that will engage a child's natural curiosity.

Adult Leaders come from your community to encourage informal science education (non-compulsory education) as a lifelong involvement for everyone: They are parents, teachers, researchers, business professionals, graduate students and retirees who have college degrees and prior experience working with children.

We provide two types of Adult Leader training.

• A three-hour New Leader Orientation focuses on our style of informal science education. Participants learn to lead small groups of children in a relaxed, inquiry-based environment. Adult Leaders attend this only once.
• A materials training workshop is offered prior to each eight-week session. Adult Leaders are given teaching tips and a complete box of materials. These workshops typically last one and a half hours and give leaders a chance to review all of the activities that they will engage in with the children.

In some locations, teachers can receive Continuing Professional Development units for HOSO training.