2025-26 ScienceLIVE WPMS Teacher Sign Up Form

Instructions - please read carefully

For ScienceLIVE 2025-26 in-person classroom visits:

At least two practicing UMass Chan scientists will be present for each of your class periods.
We will bring the materials for a fun, hands-on experiment for each of your students.
All of this is FREE!

For teachers with multiple sections of the same grade, we schedule all classes for one teacher in the same day. We will return to the school to complete the activity with another teacher's classes on another date.

For 6th Grade, we offer Project BioEYES (exploring genetics and the life cycle).
In this interactive week-long experiment, your students will learn about development, habitat, and genetics by caring for real zebrafish embryos.

For 7th grade, we offer The Building Blocks of Life (exploring cell and molecular biology).

In this 45-minute module, your students revisit the characteristics of all living things, cells as the basic units of life, and the role of DNA, with our scientists. They engage in the steps of the scientific process as they perform a hands-on DNA extraction and compare the extracted DNA from different foods.

For your 8th grade classes, we offer Doctor's Orders: Finish Your Antibiotics (exploring microbiology).

In this 45-minute module, your students demonstrate the real-world application of classroom concepts by performing a modeling experiment illustrating the consequences of mutations in a pathogenic “strain of bacteria” and the importance of following the directions for an antibiotic prescription.

We also offer programming for K-5 and 9-12 and all-ages community events. Indicate your programming request under "other" in Question #3.

Please contact us at sciencelive@umassmed.edu if you have any questions.

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* 1. Please fill out your contact information, including your school, school address, and a cell phone number, should we need to reach you urgently.

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* 2. Please provide any parking instructions for our volunteers (if any).

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* 3. Please share the following pertinent information for your classes:

How many grade 6 class sections would you like us to visit?

In total, how many grade 6 students? (This number will determine the amount of student journals we bring.)

Please list the bell schedule (start and end times) for EACH ONE of your 6th grade classes.

How many grade 7 class sections would you like us to visit?

In total, how many grade 7 students? (This number will be the total number of DNA extraction kits we bring.)

Please list the bell schedule (start and end times) for EACH ONE of your 7th grade classes.

How many grade 8 class sections would you like us to visit?

In total, how many grade 8 students? (This number will be the total number of Dr.'s Orders kits we bring.)

Please list the bell schedule (start and end times) for EACH ONE of your 8th grade classes.

Please describe all other programming requests (K-5, high school, community, etc) here.

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* 4. Efforts will be made to complete all of your classes on one day. Date options for classroom visits will be 9/22/25- 6/5/26. Please indicate your top 3 dates you would like us to visit.