THIS YEAR TECHNOLOGY VERSION; DATA ACQUISITION WITH COMPUTER AND SENSORS; INTEGRATE MATHEMATICAL SKILLS, GRAPHS, CONCEPTS, LESSON PLANS, AND MORE.  GET GRADUATE CREDIT!

Activity Based Physics and Astronomy Summer Institute for Middle and Junior-High School Teachers: 

Year FIVE (new activities in heat, machines, and more added),

TECHNOLOGY VERSION; DATA ACQUISITION WITH COMPUTER AND  SENSORS

June 4-8, 2007

The University of Tennessee at Martin,  Department of Geology, Geography and Physics

    Sponsored by The Tennessee Higher Education (THEC)

YOU CAN GET GRADUATE CREDIT IF YOU SIGN UP FOR PHYS691 IN THE SECOND SUMMER SESSION-2005 WHILE ALSO ATTENDING THIS INSTITUTE . TUITION AND FEE ARE WAIVED BY UTM.

Contact: Cahit Erkal, cerkal@utm.edu  Office: 731-881-7432 (or Janice Lee at 881-7430), Fax: 731-881-7434

I would like to bring  a sample experiment/activity set  to your school  to field-test and receive your feedback.  The purpose of this is to find out whether or not such activity would be suitable to be used in teaching science by the attendees.  If you are interested in being visited, please drop me and e-mail. I will try to schedule visits to several schools during the next few months.

This is the official home page of the Institute.  Announcements will be posted here. Here is an  info sheet.!

The Institute is designed for West Tennessee science teachers in 6th-9th grades,  and will focus on the science standards in the areas of

  • physics

  • physical science

  • astronomy

The Institute will consist of
  • hands-on activities
  • discussion sessions
  • laboratory experiments
  • building experiment set-ups
  • demonstrations
  • unit lesson plan writing that promotes scientific inquiry
  • multimedia

 

 

 

Teachers participating in the workshop will receive:

  • a $250 stipend
  • a teacher kit worth approximately $1400.00
  • meals and housing for the week.
  • physics simulations produced by Dr. Richard Taylor, who volunteered to provide free copies for you to use in teaching( see one of the simulations about gravity)

Activities/teaching strategies in the areas of:

  • Measurements

  • Motion: speed, displacement, graphing

  • Waves: amplitude, energy, sounds..

  • Force: Concept of force, Newton's law

  • Optics

  • Electricity

  • Astronomy: Earth, Moon, Sun, building a telescope and observing techniques

  • Heat

  • Simple Machines(pulleys, inclined planes, levers)

  • Measurements

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