Program
for the Energy & Motion Academy 2007
(Information on 2008 to come)
Monday, July 9, 2007
L’Enfant Plaza Hotel
Opening Remarks
Dr. David Evans, Undersecretary of Science, Smithsonian Institution
Playing Around With Energy
and Motion – a Pre-assessment Exercise
Steve Madewell, Project Coordinator, NSRC
Recording Inquiry –
Science Notebooks as a Tool in Teaching and Learning
Sande Sparkman, Professional Development Director,
Center for Science Literacy, Oklahoma
State University
A Source of Electrical
Energy – An Exercise In Inquiry
Presented by SSEAT
Academy faculty
Lunch
National Museum of American
History or L’Enfant Plaza Hotel
Two alternating sessions at the National Museum of American History
Participants rotate through the following sessions:
Hands On Science
Center
Matthew White, Director, Hands On Science Center
Roger Sherman, Curator, Modern Physics Collection
Recreating Benjamin Franklin’s experiments with electrical
energy
Steve Madewell, Project Coordinator, NSRC
Out of the Collections
Steven Turner, Curator, Medicine and Science Collection
Behind-the-scene demonstration of early science teaching methods and
artifacts
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
L’Enfant Plaza Hotel,
Inertia - Analyzing Motion and Newton's
First Law
Presentation by SSEAT
Academy Faculty
Goddard Space Flight
Center
Goddard Space
Fight Center
Presentation by Paul Mason, need title
Lunch
Rocket Launch
Alan Williams, need title
“Go With the
Flow”
Richard Blackmon, Aerospace Education Specialist
Tour of Goddard Space
Flight Center
and NASA Education Resource
Center
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
National Air & Space
Museum, Udvar-Hazy Center
Presentation by SSEAT Academy faculty
Exploring Newton’s second law of motion with a propeller-driven car
Designing Propellers
– A Hands-on Experience
Doug Baldwin, Chief of Education
Special Tour of Udvar-Hazy
Center
Led by Museum Docents
IMAX Movie
Roving Mars
Experience the reality of the Mars surface as seen through the eyes of two
intrepid, Mars rovers – Spirit and Opportunity
Summary Session
Education resources available to teachers
Thursday, July 12, 2007
National Air & Space Museum
on the Mall
Investigating How Wings Work
John Anderson, Curator, Aeronautics Division
The Physics of How Things
Fly
Blake Reid, Museum Program Specialist
Energy and Motion
Transformations in Systems
Presentation by SSEAT
Academy faculty
The Smithsonian Institution
Castle
Academy Celebration Dinner
Keynote Speaker TBD
Friday, July 13, 2007
L’Enfant Plaza Hotel
Final Science Content Activities – Alternative Energy Systems for Cars
Guest Speaker
Robert Rose, Executive Director, Breakthrough Technologies/Fuel Cells 2000
Lunch
Continuation of Fuel Cell /
Solar Cell Car Activity
Reflections, Evaluation, Departure
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