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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 09:32:12
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>From: Elizabeth Cavicchi
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Subject: 2012 Fall Term exploring
Seminar</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>EC.050 (U)/ EC.090 (G) Recreate
Experiments from History: Inform the Future from the Past<br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Elizabeth Cavicchi<i> Edgerton
Center</i><br>
U (1-3-2) [P/D/F]<br>
G (1-3-2)<br>
T2-4 in 4-402, R2-4 in 4-410<br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Students develop perspective for thinking
about the future by studying historical physical science and
recreating these experiments through their own curiosity and
questions. The seminar builds awareness of the unexpected - even in
familiar settings - through observing the sky and conducting lab
activities with light, electricity, and motion. Working alone and in
teams, students hone their skills in observation, exploration, and
evaluation. Students learn by analyzing historical works of Galileo,
Archimedes, and others, and extending these observers' practices to
their own thinking. Lab sessions complemented by museum and site
visits. Students keep an observing notebook and write a reflective
paper on their experience. The seminar's exploratory and
collaborative pedagogy equips students to teach and conduct research
in science, history and other areas. Students taking graduate version
complete additional assignments.<br>
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The fall 2012 seminar theme involves experiencing and observing space,
motions and the moon through responding to each other and historical
examples ranging from ancients to amateurs to Berenice Abbott's
science education photography to NASA's legacy. Class explorations
involve our surroundings, sky observing, instruments devised by us and
others, and our evolving curiosities.<br>
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For more information contact Elizabeth Cavicchi, <a
href="mailto:ecavicchie@mit.edu">ecavicch@mit.edu</a>.</blockquote>
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