Motivating Teachers and Students to Learn Plasma Physics via Engaging Activities

Informal science education activities (ISEA) have long played an essential role in helping create and recruit the next generation of scientists. Researchers not having constraints from the curriculum, textbooks, and tests have a freedom that allows creative and culturally relevant learning experiences of science. This freedom can present opportunities for engagement by presenting key concepts to the K-12 teachers and students and communicating exciting results from the researcher's work allowing K-12 teachers and students to have more access to science. The audience is the focus of this presentation, which is one of the four stakeholders that benefit from ISEAs – the audiences, the researchers, the institutions, and the field of plasma physics. This presentation will demonstrate the use of the two-way interactive method to bring science "alive," spark interest and stimulate curiosity.