In the Footsteps of Galileo: A Hands-on Workshop on Astronomy for Teachers in Grades 3 12 Saturday, April 24, 2010, 9:00am 4:30pm Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, CA (see map at bottom of this post) Presented by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) Workshop participants will explore: The realms of astronomy, and our changing perception of the universe Recent NASA moon missions (with information and activities about the Moon from the NASA Lunar Science Institute) An introduction to Galileo, his life, work and legacy Ideas about student reasoning about science and how to help students think like…
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CAIS Professional Development Day March 12, 2010 to be held at the Exploratorium in San Francisco 8:30 am – 9:00 am: Welcome, coffee, bagels and ice breaker, 9:00 am – 10:00 am: Two floor tours happening simultaneously; a bio and a physics tour, both led by Exploratorium Teacher Institute staff (Paul Doherty and TBD), 10:00 am – 11:30 am: Two hands on workshops happening simultaneously: Fruits of the Genome Project – Personalized Medicine given by Karen Kalumuck In this hands-on interactive workshop, we’ll model laboratory techniques such as DNA microarray analysis that are set to revolutionize the practice of medicine. By…
Friday & Saturday April 16th & 17th, 2010 American River College Sacramento, CA (see map below) Local Host: Chuck Hunt: email: Huntc@arc.losrios.edu Sign up to present Call for Presentations We solicit presentations of 15 minutes in length. Suitable topics include teaching ideas, research projects, laboratory techniques, novel demonstrations, computers and instruction. Please send an abstract of your talk, with title, your name and affiliation, AV and equipment requests, and other requirements to the Program Chairman, Paul Robinson, preferably by email at laserpablo@aol.com. Deadline for submission is Friday, March 5, 2010. Call for Demonstrations Bring your favorite 5-minute demonstration for the…
The following colloquium is free and open to all. Dr. Chris Fassnacht, UC Davis, will present his lecture, “Measuring the Universe with Gravitational Lenses” on Thursday, February 11, 2010, at 4pm in Mendocino Hall 1015, Sacramento State University. This lecture is free and open to the public. Chris Fassnacht received his AB degree from Harvard College and immediately afterward joined the Peace Corps, where he served as a secondary school math and science teacher in Ghana, West Africa. After returning, he received a PhD from Caltech. He held postdoctoral fellowships at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Socorro, NM and…
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.…