<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Elizabeth Cavicchi <<a href="mailto:ecavicch@MIT.EDU">ecavicch@MIT.EDU</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">August 29, 2012 2:37:27 PM EDT</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>MIT Fall term seminar</b><br></span></div><div><br><br>Edgerton Center Seminar<br>EC.050/EC.090 (G) Recreate Experiments from History: Inform the Future from the Past<br>Elizabeth Cavicchi<br>U (1-3-2) [P/D/F for EC.050, A-F grading for EC.090]<br>Students develop perspective for thinking about the future by studying historical physical science and<br>recreating these experiments through their own curiosity and questions. The seminar builds awareness of<br>the unexpected - even in familiar settings - through observing the sky and conducting lab activities with<br>light, electricity, and motion. Working alone and in teams, students hone their skills in observation,<br>exploration, and evaluation. Students learn by analyzing historical works of Galileo, Archimedes, and<br>others, and extending these observers’ practices to their own thinking. Lab sessions complemented by<br>museum and site visits. Students keep an observing notebook and write a reflective paper on their<br>experience. The seminar’s exploratory and collaborative pedagogy equips students to teach and conduct<br>research in science, history and other areas. Students taking graduate version complete additional<br>assignments.<br>The fall 2012 seminar theme involves experiencing and observing space, motions and the moon through<br>responding to each other and historical examples ranging from ancients to amateur experiments to<br>NASA’s legacy. Class explorations involve our surroundings, sky observing, instruments devised by us<br>and others, and our evolving curiosities.<br>Contact: Elizabeth Cavicchi, <a href="mailto:ecavicch@mit.edu">ecavicch@mit.edu</a><br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>