From Now to Thanksgiving.... (sounds like a movie title?)

Find below our ideas for the second half of the course; these may change depending on the depth of our discussions. However, the goals remain the same.


October 2
-Discussion:
---Meet with/Present to a Scientist (articles will be approved by scientist then placed in DropBox or a URL given)
-Evaluating your Concept Maps (a rubric will be handed out to assist you in assessing your maps)
-Lecture: The development of ideas on the nature of the atom (atomic theory): 2 PPTs
-Models/Nature of the Atom project (see blog: goal is to educate middle grades students about the development of ideas of the atom)
-Energy Lab: What's Cookin'? Burning A Cheeto! (introduction to heat)


October 16
-Science Talk: development of ideas on the nature of the atom and the nature of science
-MidTerm Quiz
-Moon Journal discussion
-Science in the Media
-Introduction to heat
-Energy Lab: What's cookin'?
-Meet with a Scientist: create teams
-HWK



October 23: Heat
-Science in the Media
-Team Time: Meet with a Scientist: articles distributed
-Conversations about Heat and Models of the Atom
-Energy Lab: What's cookin'? Science Writing Heuristic
-MidTerm Quiz Discussion
-HWK: Heat Problems; (assigned reading: bring Primary Science (first 2 chapter); bring text to class
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-MidTerm Quiz
-Moon Journal discussion
-Museum Exhbit discussion
-Introduction to heat



October 30: Happy Halloween
-Halloween Costume Competition
-Science in the Media
-Team Time: Meet with a Scientist
-Conversations about Heat and Models of the Atom
-Heat Problems
-Concept maps
-MidTerm Quiz Discussion
-HWK: bring Primary Science text to class; bring in Moon Journal and artifacts



November 2
NSTA Regional Conference (Atlanta, GA)



November 6
-Science in the Media: several teams

-Heat Lab: Boiling water lab
-Primary Science conversation
-Team Time: Meet with a Scientist
-Concept maps
-Moon Journal Activity/Lab
http://www.winkatthemoonnight.com/
http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/lunar-lander
-Chalk Talk
-HWK:Preparation for Present to A Scientist event

 

November 13: Panel discussions
-Meal (4:30 PM)
-Present to a Scientist (panel)
-HWK: Science News Jigsaw articles; Newton's second law of motion (Great Equations)/Chapter in Bryson's book Newton's Laws reading and responses to prompts; reading from Primary Science; Atom Exhibit



November 20: No class
-The Physical Science of Thanksgiving



November 27: Informal Science Education (ISE)
-Science in the Media
-Science Writing Heuristic/Models of the Atom/Newton's second law of motion (Great Equations)/Chapter in Bryson's book
-Museum Exhibit: final plans

-Lab: Newton's Laws
-HWK: bring Primary Science text to class
-Evaluating Science News: Science News Jigsaw
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-Science in the Media
-Primary Science text to class
-Creating an interactive museum exhibit (L. Chandler)  
-Museum Exhibit: final plans 
-Moon Journal Activity/Lab
http://www.winkatthemoonnight.com/
http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/lunar-lander


December 4-Museum Exhibit: exhibit on display
-Informal Science Education 
-Chalk Talk


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November 27: 
-Creating meaningful, interactive museum exhibits (L. Chandler): Natural History Museum (1st floor Hery Hall)
-Museum Exhibit: final plans
-Science in the Media 
-Lunch (30 minutes)
-Moon Journal Activity/Lab
http://www.winkatthemoonnight.com/
http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/lunar-lander
HWK: bring in researched responses to your questions

December 4 
-Museum Exhibit: exhibit on display
-Bring it all together: The Nature of Science and the Nature of the Atom: hypotheses, theories (including Shrodinger's, Newton's, etc.), models, light, heat, KMT, 
-Informal Science Education 
-Chalk Talk
-SALG