Friday, April 3, 2009 8:00 am to 5:00 pm University of California, Berkeley This workshop will focus on using cloud chambers and Geiger counters to help teach the principles of radioactivity and radiation. Participants will receive a wealth of materials – a cloud chamber kit and Geiger counter, workbooks, and classroom activities. This workshop will include a tour to the Advanced Light Source and lectures by leading scientists. The educational material is targeted for high school science teachers, grades 9-12. A review of the workshop is available online: http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/news/Sci_teachers_workshop/index.htm Preliminary Topics What is radiation? How is it measured? Where does…
Month: March 2009
The program for our Spring 2009 meeting/gathering is now available online. NCNAAPT Spring 2009 meeting/gathering Saturday March 28th, with a Friday evening social the day before. Everyone is invited, and first-time attendees are free. See the program for complete details.
Once again, the GLOBE community is invited to participate in the annual global sky observation known as GLOBE at Night. GLOBE at Night brings people outside to observe the constellation Orion from 16-28 March 2009. Participants simply choose a clear night on which stars are visible, take measurements of stars in this portion of the sky using GLOBE’s Magnitude Charts, and enter observations into the GLOBE at Night Web site. Students — alongside teachers, parents and community members– amass a data set from which they can begin to explore the concept of light pollution and to research the patterns of…
Modeling Workshops in high school physics, chemistry, and/or physical science will be held in summer 2009 in Arizona, California, Miami FL, Kansas, Maine, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Philadelphia PA, Pittsburgh PA, Tennessee, Dallas TX, and Wisconsin. Pending funding, also in Columbus GA, Chicago, New Orleans, and Kansas City MO. Visit http://modeling.asu.edu/MW_nation.html for details. Modeling Workshops are peer-led. Modeling Instruction is the only high school science program recognized by the U.S. Dept. of Education as EXEMPLARY. Stipends and/or free tuition are available for in-state teachers at most sites. Teachers greatly value Modeling Instruction. Modelers from all over the nation wrote:…
Friday, March 20, 2009, 11:00 a.m. Nobel Laureate Carl Wieman Oak West, 2nd floor of Tresidder Union, Stanford University Refreshments served at 10:45. Open to public. The Physics department will host a special lecture on March 20, 2009 by Nobel Laureate Carl Wieman, Director of the Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative at the University of British Columbia. Science Education in the 21st Century: Using the methods of science to teach science Guided by experimental tests of theory and practice, science has advanced rapidly in the past 500 years. Guided primarily by tradition and dogma, science education meanwhile has remained largely…