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From: Elizabeth Cavicchi [mailto:ecavicch at MIT.EDU]<mailto:[mailto:ecavicch at MIT.EDU]>
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Subject: MIT fall seminarEdgerton Center Seminar
EC.050/EC.090 (G) Recreate Experiments from History: Inform the Future from the Past (Formerly SP.726)
Elizabeth Cavicchi Edgerton Center
U (1-3-2)
T2-4 in 4-402, R2-4 in 4-409
Students develop perspective for thinking about the future by studying and recreating historically significant experiments. 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. They also read accounts by Galileo and other historical observers. Lab sessions complemented by museum and site visits. Students keep an observing notebook and write a reflective paper on their experience. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments.

The fall 2011 seminar theme is how we come to experience and observe the space around us, through explorations involving our bodily motions, instruments devised by us and others, sky observing and other activities.

You may choose to contribute your participation to educational research.


Contact: Elizabeth Cavicchi, ecavicch at mit.edu<mailto:ecavicch at mit.edu>
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