STEM Ed Announcement: Summer Course, Electricity & Magnetism in the Science Classroom

[Morton Sternheim <mort@k12s.phast.umass.edu>]

This is a UMass Amherst program.
Contact information is below.
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NATSCI 691A
Electricity & Magnetism in the Science Classroom

Note:  This is an Online Class

When: 5/17- 7/25                                
Cost: $417/credit, 3 graduate credits
Course number: 61119
Instructors: Chris Emery and Mary Mawn
Email: cbemery@educ.umass.edu, mary.mawn@esc.edu

This course is an introduction to the basic concepts of electricity
and magnetism, and provides teachers with hands-on investigations and
lab activities as an integral part of the course. Through this course,
participants' will recognize and utilize the skills of inquiry
learning in the design and implementation of science curricula in
their own classrooms. Skills such as: designing investigations;
collecting, organizing and presenting data; identifying patterns;
using math as a tool for analysis, and a basis for making inferences;
communicating with others using "scientific language"; learning to ask
new questions and to redesign investigations based on new,
understanding will be presented and reinforced throughout the course.

Register at: http://www.umassulearn.net
More information: http://www.umass.edu/seo