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The holiday season is in full swing, with music and magic in the air, lights twinkling in frosty windows… and letters from scientists being torn open in classrooms across the US! All of our pre-scientist students have received their first letters and have enjoyed “Opening Day” with their classmates, learning about their new pen pals …
by Jen MacCormack 
Pen pal matches are out, and hundreds of scientists are busy writing wonderful letters for their students! If you received a match email, and haven’t started your letter yet, please don’t forget that the letters need to arrive by November 13th – that’s only a week away! If you’re looking for ideas about what to …
by Jen MacCormack 
Thank you! The response to our call for scientist volunteers was absolutely outstanding! Over 620 scientists have signed up and requested a pen pal, which means that none of our excited students will be left out. So what happens now? This year, we have 400 students in several classrooms, eager to start chatting with scientists. …
by Jen MacCormack 
Letters to a Pre-Scientist is delighted to welcome four new members to our team of dedicated volunteers! Matching eager young students to scientists, and keeping track of all of their emails and letters, is a huge job. LPS has recruited three new Science Classroom Program Coordinators to share that important work, and with their help, we’ll …
by Jen MacCormack 
Do you know someone who loves science education? Someone who wants to work on a fun project with teachers and scientists? We want to meet them! Letters to a Pre-Scientist is run entirely by volunteers, and this year we’re trying something new. We are offering two unpaid internships: Social Media Coordinator and Science Classroom Program Coordinator. As …
by Anna Goldstein 
Welcome to Letters to a Pre-Scientist! Notice anything different? We are so excited for the 2015-2016 school year to start, and we decided that the website could use a fresh coat of paint before getting started. We hope that visitors to our site can quickly and easily find the information they need, whether they’re using a desktop or …
by Anna Goldstein 
All of us on the organizing team give thanks often to the scientists who donate their time and energy to Letters to a Pre-Scientist. We remind our pen pals that they are making a difference in a young person’s life. However, it seems like that the message gets across more clearly when it comes from the young people themselves. We did …
by Anna Goldstein 
It’s crazy to believe we only have about 5 more weeks left of school! We’ve been very busy in 5th grade science. We’re wrapping up our ecosystems unit this week. Students created “biobottles” and are currently competing to see which ecosystem in a bottle can survive the longest. Students collected producers, consumers, and decomposers from …
by Johanna Parker 
As letters are piling up and we are preparing for letter opening day #3, my students are becoming more and more excited. They ask me every day if it is time to open pen pal letters yet. It is just as exciting opening letters in February as it is in September. With that being said, …
by Kate Mullen 
It’s hard to believe that we’re already at the half way point of this school year. Students came back on January 5th and we’ve hit the ground running. Currently we’re studying meteorology and learning all about forecasting the weather. In just a few weeks we’ll be making weather predictions of our own. With all the …
by Johanna Parker 
Students at KIPP Academy of Opportunity in South Central Los Angeles had a blast during Letter Opening Day #2 this past Tuesday! The smiling faces and weeks of anticipation make each opening day just as exciting as the first. It is amazing to see letters of all shapes, sizes and colors, differently tattered by the …
by Lucy 
This year, my 6th grade students have a unique opportunity. My students participated in the letters to a pre-scientist program while they were in 5th grade and many of them were able to keep their same penpals! Johanna Parker told me about this program last year and I could not wait for this year to …
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