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Teachers Asking Scientists
Questions (TASQ)
GOING LIVE IN OCTOBER 2024!!!!
GET YOUR QUESTIONS ABOUT SCIENCE CURRICULUM ANSWERED!
If you see this before then, please come back!
Teachers Asking Scientists Questions is a way for all, but mostly elementary school teachers, to get rapid answers to questions about their science curriculum. Science is Elemental (501c3 nonprofit) views supporting teachers as vitally important to science education. Elementary school teachers have to be able to teach all subjects, and we are here to help those who want to ensure they fully understand the concepts associated with the curriculum to provide the best instruction to their students.
What is TASQ? For teachers, it is the ability to send a text or email with a question about the science curriculum they are teaching. Teachers will not need an account, a password, or to go to a website.
For questions about the science concepts and facts, a scientist on the network will get back to each teacher quickly. Our goal is to get everyone an answer within an hour. However, as this is a new endeavor, please extend us some grace as we get going. We have both scientists and former science teachers in the network.
For questions about how best to teach those concepts to students, recognizing that teachers are the experts and know their students best, that may be a longer conversation, and we will send teachers who ask those questions an email for a follow-on discussion so that we can get them the information they can use.
For Scientists
Thank you so much for volunteering to support teachers as they provide students with the best possible education, and joy of learning science.
If you are a new volunteer, thank you for reaching out. Please send an email to nos@scienceiselemental.org and we will get you set up for a training session. The link below requires a password, which you will get upon completing the training.
Training materials can also be found by clicking the Read more link button below.
For Teachers
To ask a question, simply email it to askascientist@scienceiselemental.org or text it to: (301) 969-2212 (AFTER WE GO LIVE. PLEASE CHECK BACK!!)
We will acknowledge your question as soon as it is received, and get you a response as quickly as we can.
Please, when you ask your question, include the grade you teach and any other information you think we would need to make our answer as useful to you as possible.
Also, if you have a chance to do so after getting an answer, please let us know how we did. This is a new endeavor and we appreciate any help possible in making it as useful to you as we can.