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Department
of Energy Academies Creating
Teacher Scientists
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Stanford
Linear Accelerator Center
Teachers as Investigator Program
July 9 - August 3, 2008
Exploring Physical Sciences at SLAC
This four week program for middle school teachers will combine an
introduction to the exciting research done by this laboratory with
a series of inquiry-oriented
and activity-based mini-workshops. Three topics will be explored: Forces
and Motion, Energy, and Matter. Teacher participants will work as teams
of three. Each team will have a research mentor in one of the three
major science areas of the laboratory: particle physics, particle
astrophysics,
and the science of matter as investigated by x-ray and fast-pulse laser
studies (known at SLAC as photon science). The mini-workshops will
cover material in the California, Utah, and/or Nevada physical
science standards
for middle grades; teachers from these three states are especially
invited to apply. The research groups will investigate how these
basic concepts
are integral to the forefront of research at SLAC, and will develop
and present a short lesson or activity on each mini-workshop
topic at a level
appropriate for their students.
We expect that the teachers in this workshop will return to SLAC for
progressively deeper research participation and studies over the three
years of their
DOE ACTS participation. Selection will favor teams of three teachers
from a single region who offer a coordinated plan to use their expanded
understanding
of these basic science topics in ongoing teacher development activity
in their local region.
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