Tuition wavers, travel coupons, and lodging stipends make this U.H. Manoa summer course accessible to K-12 educators and librarians statewide. Studying electromagnetic spectra of gases is a real eye-opener with these fashionable diffraction lenses. A cloud of flour rises above the target box after a successful shot.
Participants examine the impacted target of layered flour and dry paint.
The characteristic bowl-shaped craters and streaks of material thrown out by the impacts are outstanding. Muddy hands are half the fun in Scott Rowland's activity that uses clay to simulate properties of active lava flows. By measuring the rate of movement and the geometry of the final flow, we can learn to characterize real lava flows. A culminating activity of the workshops is a geological field trip along the southeast coastline of Oahu to gain first-hand experience with the many geological processes learned in class. More course information .