Participants will develop and share lesson plans and learn how to use dinosaurs to teach concepts of geology, biology, and earth's history while at the same time teaching students about the scientific method. Fossil specimens and a field trip will be included. This course will discuss basic minerals and rocks for science teachers. It will include lectures, labs, demonstrations, computer simulations, internet activities and Saturday field trips developed around the concepts of crystals, mineral properties, identification of rock-forming minerals, plutonic igneous rocks, volcanic igneous rocks, sedimentary rocks and metamorphic rocks. The course has a large laboratory and curriculum component and is designed for secondary teachers.
Admission is by application only.
Temperature, thermal effects, calorimetry, laws of thermodynamics, kinetic theory of gases, entropy and applications to engines, heat pumps and refrigerators. The course includes laboratory. Admission is by application only. Admission is by application only. This course is an introduction to the basic properties of lasers and their uses in modern physics.