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1
GK-12 Teaching Experience
  • Christopher Russell

Funded by National Science Foundation Graduate
Teaching Fellows Program in K-12 Education
(GK-12) DGE 0538555
2
Graduate Student-Teacher Pairing
Mr. Christopher Russell Dept. of Physics
Astronomy Theoretical Modeling of Massive Stars
Mrs. Lisa Nowak Delcastle High
School Integrated Science Teacher
3
Role
  • Assist with Science education in any way possible
  • Design new activities/Transform old activities
  • Teach subject matter in my specialty
  • Facilitate group work
  • Answer the I dont know, lets ask Mr. Russell.
    questions
  • Increase student appreciation of science
  • How has science made our lives better?
  • Why is science funding important?

4
Scale of the Universe
  • Misconception of Space Travel
  • Landed on Moon with Apollo in 60s/70s
  • Pres. Bush go back to Moon and eventually to
    Mars
  • Whats the big deal?
  • Why not go to other stars galaxies?

5
Scale of the Universe
  • Misconception of Space Travel
  • Courtesy 20th Century Fox

6
Sun Planet Sizes
Picture
  • Turn ceiling
  • into Sun
  • Scale planets
  • onto Sun
  • Reinforce math life skills of scale factors
  • See life size depiction of size differences

50 ft. radius
7
Sun Planet Sizes
Picture
  • Turn ceiling
  • into Sun
  • Scale planets
  • onto Sun
  • Reinforce math life skills of scale factors
  • See life size depiction of size differences

5 ft. radius
8
Sun Planet Sizes
  • Turn ceiling
  • into Sun
  • Scale planets
  • onto Sun
  • Reinforce math life skills of scale factors
  • See life size depiction of size differences

0.5 ft. radius
9
Sun Planet Distance
Picture
  • Turn ceiling into solar system
  • 56 ft. from Sun to Neptune
  • Scale planets from Sun
  • How close is nearest star?
  • 90 miles away

10
Wrap-up Sizes Distances
  • How large would the planets be on the distance
    scale of the entire room?
  • How far away would the planets be for the three
    size scales on the ceiling?
  • More realistic understanding of space travel
  • Going to Mars is not simple, but not impossible
  • Never going to be able to visit far reaches of
    the galaxy

11
Final Thoughts GK-12
  • Immense respect for teachers
  • New respect for educational researchers
  • Hard to create interest in a subject, but
    relevance to their life is crucial for their
    engagement

12
Final Thoughts My Career
  • Much more willing to do outreach programs
  • Much more able to explain why science is
    important
  • Better ability to explain science and my research
    to non-scientists
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