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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

Discuss important modern physics concepts
Develop methods to teach a contemporary physics class
Develop modules for classroom use

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:

Presentation of subject matter of the week by faculty (1/3 time)
Discussion of class room implementation by the entire group (1/3 time)
Review of modules worked on/out by participants (1/3 time)

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