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…
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You are invited to attend Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s (LLNL) Teacher Research Academy (TRA). TRA offers middle- and high-school science teachers unique professional development experiences. TRA provides teachers a continuum of standards-based instruction divided into four separate workshops, or Levels. Teachers taking the four Levels can progress from novice to mastery in three exciting scientific disciplines: Energy Technologies and the Environment Fusion and Astrophysics Biotechnology Details about the programs are available on our web site: http://education.llnl.gov/academies Earn a Master of Science Degree: Participation in the TRA program can lead to a Master of Science in Education degree from California State…
Student COSMOS summer program It’s time for talented teens to apply for COSMOS, a math and science summer program. Students that love math and science and do well in them have a chance to spend four weeks at UC Davis, UC Irvine, UC Santa Cruz, or UC San Diego this summer learning about astronomy, biomedical sciences, engineering, computer game design, robotics and more. The California State Summer School for Mathematics & Science (COSMOS) is a four-week residential program for talented and motivated students who are completing grades 8-12. Students work side-by-side with outstanding university researchers and faculty exploring advanced topics…
Physics Teacher SOS spring 2009 workshops: Electricity, Magnetism, and Light: “Come See the Light” March 7, 2009: Rio Americano High School (Sacramento area); Dean Baird & Steve Keith. Rio Americano HS Campus Map (PDF). March 14, 2009: San Mateo High School (SF Peninsula); Paul Robinson & Dan Burns. Complete workshops descriptions and registration information at PTSOS.org.
CJ Chretien has started a channel on YouTube for NCNAAPT members to share their favorite videos. Please visit www.youtube.com/ncnaapt to see videos and add your favorites. From CJ: Call for Videos I am in the process of getting a YouTube channel going to promote NCNAAPT. Since there has been a few messages going around about video I thought I would put this out. If you have any videos of demos that you have done and you want to have them put on the NCNAAPT YouTube channel send them my way. These do not have to be videos of anything out…