2012 Update: There will be a two-week mechanics workshop at Carondelet High School in Concord June 18-29. Full information here: https://ncnaapt.org/modeling
Modeling Workshops in high school physics, chemistry, and/or physical science will be held in summer 2010 in Arizona, Alabama, Miami FL, Iowa, New Orleans LA, Maine, Michigan, Minneapolis MN, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pittsburgh PA, northern Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Dallas TX, and Wisconsin.
Modeling Workshops will be held also in Georgia, Chicago IL, Kansas, South Dakota, and Washington, pending funding.
Visit http://modeling.asu.edu for details. Click on “Modeling Workshops Nationwide in Summer 2010”. http://modeling.asu.edu/MW_nation.html
Modeling Workshops are peer-led. Modeling Instruction is one of two K-12 science programs designated by the U.S. Department of Education as EXEMPLARY.
Stipends and/or free tuition at some sites: usually for in-state teachers. Ask your principal for Federal Title II-A funds. For information and more funding sources: http://modeling.asu.edu/MW_nation.html
Outstanding peer leaders at sites include Larry Dukerich, Rex and Debbie Rice, Michael Crofton, Matt Greenwolfe, Rich McNamara, Kathy Malone, Kathy Harper, Jeff Steinert, Earl Legleiter, Jim Stankevitz, Nicholas Park, Jamie Vesenka, Ed Wyrembeck, and more!
Teachers nationwide greatly value Modeling Instruction. They wrote:
- In thirty years of teaching, nothing has impacted my teaching like the ideas I’ve learned in modeling. It is the best idea to enter the teaching methods I have ever seen.
- After the first year of teaching using the modeling method, I wished I had learned about modeling years ago.
- Most useful course I have taken since becoming a teacher.
- Thanks to taking physics modeling course work, I am highly qualified in physics.
- I learned a tremendous amount and am all fired up to teach physics this fall!
- I learned more about teaching and physics this summer than in 5 years of college!
- It was, without a doubt, the single greatest professional development experience of my career.
For more information, contact:
Jane Jackson, Co-Director, Modeling Instruction Program
Box 871504, Dept.of Physics, ASU, Tempe, AZ 85287
480-965-8438/fax:965-7565 http://modeling.asu.edu
Jane.Jackson@asu.edu
Saul Perlmutter heads the Supernova Cosmology Project, which pioneered the use of precise observations of exploding stars to study the expansion of the Universe. His international team was one of two groups who independently discovered the amazing phenomenon known as dark energy, and he led a collaboration that designed a satellite to study the nature of this dark force. He is an astrophysicist at Berkeley Lab and a professor of physics at UC Berkeley.
David Schlegel is a Berkeley Lab astrophysicist and the principal investigator of Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS), the largest of four night-sky surveys being conducted in the third phase of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, known as SDSS-III. BOSS will generate a 3-D map of two million galaxies and quasars, using a specially built instrument outfitted with 1,000 optical fibers and mounted on the SDSS telescope in New Mexico.
Alexie Leauthaud is Chamberlain Fellow at Berkeley Lab. Her work probes dark matter in the Universe using a technique called gravitational lensing. When gravity from a massive object such as a cluster of galaxies warps space around it, this can distort our view of the light from an even more distant object. The scale and direction of this distortion allows astronomers to directly measure the properties of both dark matter and dark energy.