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(PS.D-SU-12) Sharing Best Ideas: Teacher Training and Enhancement + Learning Planetaria
8/1/2021 | 2:00 PM to 3:15 PM
Moderator: Jeannette Lawler / Co-Organizer:
Session Code: PS.D-SU-12 | Submitting Committee: / Co-Sponsoring Committee:
PS.D-SU-12.01 | Contributed | Using a planetarium to demonstrate the scope of the Universe
Presenting Author: Maureen Hintz, Utah Valley University
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Students with all types of experience register for our Descriptive Astronomy class (Astro 101) and many have no concept of the size and scope of objects of the Universe. I use our planetarium extensively during the semester to show actual astronomical objects, but especially to give students a better understanding of the scope and scaling of those objects. I will share some of the planetarium (Digistar 5) experiences that have been effective at helping students appreciate the scope and scale of the universe over the years.
PS.D-SU-12.02 | Contributed | Planetaria beyond the Introductory Level
Presenting Author: David Klassen, Rowan University
Additional Author | Amy Barraclough, Rowan University
Additional Author | Benjamin West, Rowan University
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Our introductory astronomy courses have made use of our planetarium for the "standard" lessons, such as teaching students about celestial coordinates, the ecliptic, etc. We have several advanced courses in our minor in astronomy, including a sophomore-level course on the solar system and exoplanets, and introductory astrophysics, and junior courses on observational astronomy, stellar astrophysics, and galactic astronomy. We recently began thinking about using the planetarium to help with instruction at these higher levels.
In the fall of 2019, we started teaching lessons for our solar system course in the planetarium, which would have been modified and expanded upon in 2020, but for the COVID-19 shutdown. We will present our initial work from 2019 and plans for improvements and additions for fall 2021, and preliminary ideas for our stellar astrophysics course planned for spring 2022. We hope to spark a further discussion on the use of planetaria for higher-level courses.
In the fall of 2019, we started teaching lessons for our solar system course in the planetarium, which would have been modified and expanded upon in 2020, but for the COVID-19 shutdown. We will present our initial work from 2019 and plans for improvements and additions for fall 2021, and preliminary ideas for our stellar astrophysics course planned for spring 2022. We hope to spark a further discussion on the use of planetaria for higher-level courses.
PS.D-SU-12.03 | Contributed | Integrating energy and equity: A case study from teacher PD
Presenting Author: Amy Robertson, Seattle Pacific University
Additional Author | Tra Huynh, University of Washington
Additional Author | Clausell Mathis, University of Washington
Additional Author | Lauren C Bauman, University of Washington
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Multi-cultural education and culturally responsive pedagogies invite teachers to support students in critiquing the foundations of the discipline, with the aim of reimagining the discipline and the purposes it serves. The Energy and Equity Project is creating professional development for high school physics teachers that integrates physics content with equity learning, including supporting teachers in understanding ways in which inequities are built into the concept and applications of energy. In the first iteration of our summer workshop, high school physics teachers regularly named both a desire to integrate equity and the concept of energy and confusion about how they might accomplish this. This talk will look at a case of a teacher who made progress in her thinking about the integration of equity with the energy concept of efficiency. We use this case to pose some hypotheses about how to support learning of this kind.
This work was supported in part by NSF Grant Number 1907815.
PS.D-SU-12.04 | Contributed | #Leadershipgoals
Presenting Author: Shannon Wachowski, PEER Physics, Wyoming Department of Education
Presenting Author | Nicole Schrode, PEER Physics, Saint Vrain Valley School District
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What are your #LeadershipGoals? All educators are leaders: in their classroom, department, institution, and personal life. During this talk, participants will reflect on how they envision themselves as a leader, engage with a self evaluation tool, and consider the steps in developing an action plan for making change in their leadership life. In anticipation of the soon-to-be-published guide Honoring Teachers as Professionals: Stories and Pathways for Growth in Your Classroom and Career through AIP Publishing, the authors will share how university/K-12 partnerships led to increases in their own leadership capacity, professional networks, and improved professional development opportunities through self-reflective classroom research. We will discuss research and experiences around these partnerships, leadership in education, goal setting, and how participants can work towards the same.
PS.D-SU-12.05 | Contributed | Introduction to microfabrication techniques. An intensive course
Presenting Author: Juan Merlo, Vassar College
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Modern technology is based on well-developed fabrication techniques. Among these techniques, photolithography is one of the most used in industry and research. Unfortunately, the experiences that undergraduate students can have using these fabrication techniques is still limited. In this sense, I have developed an intensive course that allows students to get experience on the equipment, parameters, and skills that are required to successfully create patterned structures based on photolithography by using easily accessible equipment. Over one semester, the students have gotten structures that can reach dimensions in the order of tens of microns and reproducibility in the order of 90%. This intensive opens the opportunity in undergraduate institutions to provide required skills to students that will be part of the upcoming work force.
(PS.D-SU-12) Sharing Best Ideas: Teacher Training and Enhancement + Learning Planetaria
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