UCSC Physics Seminar for High School Teachers

Supported through the Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics (SCIPP)

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Date: Spring Quarter 2000, March 31 - June 2, 2000

Time: 4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Day: Seminar class will meet every Friday

Location: UC Santa Cruz Campus

Participants: Open to 12 High School Teachers

Stipend: $1000 stipend, and *academic credit available*

Focus and Goals

The Syllabus presents to be an appropriate mix of results in physics research and of topics in scientific method. A preliminary list of topics is given below.

Week

Subject

Professor

03/31/00

Relativity

T. Schalk

04/07/00

Quantum Mechanics

H. Sadrozinski

04/14/00

The Big Bang

T. Schalk

04/21/00

The Standard Model

J. Dann

04/28/00

Physics Seminar

J. Dann/S. Kliewer

05/05/00

The Transistor

D. Dorfan

05/12/00

Scientific Methods: Statistics

D. Dorfan

05/19/00

Scientific Method: Deduction

D. Dorfan

05/26/00

Special Relativity

S. Kliewer

06/02/00

Development of Physics Concepts

M. Nauenberg

06/09/00

Final Presentations

Seminar Participants

It is assumed that each topic will be discussed in the seminar and that one participant will work out a module for classroom teaching.

At the end of the seminar, the modules, including possibly audio-visual material, will be made available to all participants and to interested parties for use in the classrooms.

The seminar will meet twice a week. Once every Friday at 4:30 p.m., with the following structure:

The other meeting will be scheduled around the participants groups formed once their projects have been chosen.