[bioundgrd] Fwd: 2012 Fall Term exploring Seminar

[Janice Chang]

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>Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 09:32:12 -0400
>From: Elizabeth Cavicchi <ecavicch at MIT.EDU>
>Subject: 2012 Fall Term exploring Seminar
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>EC.050 (U)/ EC.090 (G) Recreate Experiments from History: Inform the 
>Future from the Past
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>Elizabeth Cavicchi Edgerton Center
>U (1-3-2) [P/D/F]
>G (1-3-2)
>T2-4 in 4-402, R2-4 in 4-410
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>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.
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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.
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>For more information contact Elizabeth Cavicchi, 
><mailto:ecavicchie at mit.edu>ecavicch at mit.edu.
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