QuarkNet Associate Teacher Institutes, or What do I do next year?

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QuarkNet Associate Teacher Institutes, orWhat
do I do next year?

• Fred Nelson
• Manhattan High School
• Manhattan, Kansas

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Have you read the Teacher Expectations for next
summer?

• Working with the mentors to plan a year-2
  three-week local institute for the associate
  teachers
• Working with the mentors to recruit year-2
  teachers
• On average, ten new associate teachers should
  join the collaboration

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So where to begin. . .

• Find learning activities for your classroom
• Topics in Modern Physics
• Particles Interactions
• The Particle Adventure
• Online QuarkNet activities
• Reading writing

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Find some more teachers!

• How were you recruited?
• College of EducationScience ed advisor
• University physics department
• AAPT section
• State Department of Education
• State science teachers association (NSTA chapter)

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Dont be a snob

• Dont assume you can only invite physics
  teachers!
• Adjust activities for your audience
• QuarkNet can help meet requirements of the
  Elementary Secondary Education Act

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Tell your story!

• Short presentation
• Deliver wherever you can
• Give away stuff
• Posters
• CD-ROMs
• Pamphlets
• Business cards

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Find a rationale

• Survey of Kansas High School Physics
  Teachers2001
• Confidence in teaching selected physics topics

Topic Highly confident Confident A little confident Not confident
Basic classical physics 34 40 22 3
Basic modern physics 13 37 40 10
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Another opportunity presented from survey data

• Approach to teaching physics
• Use of computer data collection technology

Topic Highly Confident Confident A Little Confident Not Confident
Using an Inquiry Approach 11 37 37 14
Using Computer Interfacing 10 27 35 28
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Do the right thinguse the Standards

• Science is for all students
• Learning science is an active process
• School science reflects the practice of science
• Improving science education is part of systemic
  education reform

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Free stuff for teachers to use

• Posters
• Videos
• CD-ROMS
• The Particle Adventure
• The Atlas Experiment
• Rulers
• Topics in Modern Physics
• FermiNews

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Cheap stuff for teachers to use

• Simulated particle detector
• Iron filings
• Magnetic marbles
• Shoebox lids
• Simulated Rutherford experiment
• Plywood wood blocks
• Marbles
• Crude woodworking skill

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More cheap stuff

• Indirect measurement
• Carbon paper
• Marbles
• Simulated Millikan experiment
• Envelopes
• Index cards

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Institute content resources

• Videos
• The Creation of the Universe
• Race for the Top Quark (Nova)
• Powers of Ten
• Video
• CD-ROM
• Understanding Uncertainty (TLC)
• The Quantum Universe (Annenberg)

• Magazine reading
• Discover
• Scientific American
• FermiNews
• Book reading
• From Quarks to Cosmos (Lederman)
• The Particle Garden (Kane)
• Websites
• QuarkNet
• CPEP

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Pedagogical ideas to consider

• Inquiry learning
• Constructivism
• Learning cycle
• Learning styles
• Cooperative learning
• Assessments
• Traditional
• Alternative

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Logistics at the QuarkNet Center things you have
to figure out

• Dates
• Graduate credit
• Rooms
• Schedule
• Computers
• Lab equipment
• Other equipment
• Follow up with mentors
• Money (300/week)
• Teacher selection
• Expenses

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Day 1

• 900 1100
• Orientation
• Parking permit
• Paperwork
• Center tour
• 1115 1200
• Faculty presentationA very brief history of
  particles
• 1200 100
• Lunch on your own
• 100 245
• Browse The Particle Adventure

• 300 400
• Particles Interactions activity Fundamentally
  speaking

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Day 2

• 900 915
• Questions answers
• 915 1030
• Faculty presentationCurrent experiments
• 1045 1200
• Particles Interactions activity Rutherfords
  discovery
• 100 400
• Active Learning workshop

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Some other ideas for sessions

• Cosmology
• Fusion
• Nuclear science
• Current events
• National Board Certification
• Science standards
• State assessments accountability

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Other things you can do

• Whats your expertise?
• Global positioning system
• Nuclear radiation experiments
• Modeling method
• CASTLE electricity
• Physics with computers
• Tours of other facilities

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By the way, spend your mini-grant

• 250
• Reimbursed
• Simple classroom transfer plan
• Books
• Equipment
• Materials
• Software

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Adult learners

• Select faculty speakers carefully
• No more than 90 minutes per session
• Breaks
• Activities
• Parking lot
• No stupid questions
• Have more than you think you need

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Other considerations

• Produce something
• Document your workshop
• Reflection time
• Bonding time
• Laughing time
• Have fun!

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Goals

• Learn something about particle physics
• Experience science being done
• Take it to your students
• Keep the dream alive
• University-High School Partnerships
• To infinity and beyond
• Year 3 Institute

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Thanks for your interest

• http//classrooms.usd383.org/fredn/
• fredn_at_manhattan.k12.ks.us