A sampling of units to be taught with some relevant concepts:

• Slides and ramps (gravity, friction, potential and kinetic energies, slope)
• Physics of sports (angles, force, mass, acceleration, trajectory, gravity)
• Plant biology (cell structure, photosynthesis)
• Cooking (heat, chemical reactions, acids and bases)
• Physics of music (frequency, amplitude, period, interference)
• Climate change (gases, greenhouse effect, solar radiation, atmosphere)
• Big structures – bridges, dams etc. (vector forces)
• Simple robots (programming, constructing for motion)

Tzipor is the founder of Science is Elementary. She has a passion for science education along with solid experience in the corporate and non-profit sectors. While a grad student at Stanford she co-taught an interdisciplinary course in "science for non-scientists" and realized that by the time students got to college, if they hadn't already developed an interest in science, it was too late. Hence, the idea for Science is Elementary was born.

Tzipor worked with Fortune 500 and startup clients as a business strategy consultant at Helmer & Associates, consulting on matters ranging from a technology spin-off to corporate business opportunity analyses. She serves as President of the non-profit Hadassah Sequoia Action group, responsible for fundraising and contributing to programming of events and education. Previously she was elected to, and served on the board of, The Hillel Foundation at Stanford University for 4 years where she instituted cash flow procedures for the organization's annual budget of $500K.

In college, Tzipor was a mentor/tutor and later a site coordinator for Project Step-Up, a mentoring and tutoring program in some of Cleveland's toughest inner city schools.  She was a volunteer math and science tutor at Mountain View High School and private tutor for public and private school students.

She is the proud mother of 2 boys in whom she has instilled a curiosity about the world and the way things work. She has a PhD in physical chemistry from Stanford University and a BSc in chemistry from Case Western Reserve University.