Educational Innovations

Ron Perkins taught high school chemistry for 33 years and was a master of discrepant event lessons. He was Connecticut's first recipient of the prestigious President's Award for Teaching. Ron has presented more than 800 teacher workshops in the United States and abroad. He founded Educational Innovations in 1994 and worked tirelessly to find unique, scientifically rigorous, and FUN products to add to our catalog. Ron retired in 2010, but his passion for teaching lives on at Educational Innovations.

It's human nature to take for granted what we cannot see. Nothing proves this more than the air that surrounds us! We live on the bottom of an ocean of air, and yet most people (our students, especially) never give it a second thought. But thanks to the pressure that air exerts upon us-and objects around us-amazing things happen every day! Air doesn't just take up space; it has mass and pressure. This workshop is filled with jaw-dropping discrepant events and hands-on science phenomena that will prove to your students that air is much, much more than "just" the stuff we breathe!