[bioundgrd] Fwd: MIT fall seminar

[Janice Chang]

>Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2011 12:25:19 -0400
>From: Elizabeth Cavicchi <ecavicch at MIT.EDU>
>Subject: MIT fall seminar
>
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>Edgerton Center Seminar
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>EC.050/EC.090 (G) Recreate Experiments from History: Inform the 
>Future from the Past (Formerly SP.726)
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>Elizabeth Cavicchi Edgerton Center
>U (1-3-2)
>T2-4 in 4-402, R2-4 in 4-409
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>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.
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>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.
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>You may choose to contribute your participation to educational research.
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>Contact: Elizabeth Cavicchi, <mailto:ecavicch at mit.edu>ecavicch at mit.edu
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