Summer Institute 2003

Conceptual Physical Science for High School Teachers

by Paul Doherty and Don Rathjen

Here is the draft of our day-by-day plan for the Summer Institute.

Topics by Day

• 1. Welcome, What is Science? Perception
• 2. The Eye
• 3. Eye and Brain
• 4. What is light, a historical approach with experiments.
• 5. Friday Share session by Explo staff, Iron Science Teacher.
• 6. Color, spectrum, Atoms
• 7. Images
• 8. Magnetism at project RAFT San Jose.
• 9. Thursday Share Session.
• 10. July 4 holiday
• 11. Waves
• 12. Sound and the Ear
• 13. Music
• 14. Electrostatics
• 15. Friday Share Session and Iron Science Teacher.
• 16. Electric Current
• 17. Electric meters
• 18. Electromagnetism
• 19. Heat and temperature
• 20. Friday Share Session and Iron Science Teacher

Scientific Explorations with Paul Doherty

© 2003

7 May 2003