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As part of the workshop, participant's work in small groups of their own choosing when designing new curricula
based upon common needs (teachers from large urban school districts or from
small private
schools, etc.). Each group is given the task of creating a new curriculum with four
separate components: 1) a two to 10 minute classroom demonstration; 2) a one to
three period laboratory investigation; 3) a set of five to ten problems or questions;
4) an advanced project for one or more students given sufficient time and resources.
The participants are not asked to create a new plasma/fusion unit (unless they chose
to) but to weave the new material into their existing curricula.
Newly created curricula included:
- Advanced laboratories using a glow discharge plasma tube
- Demonstrations with Plasma Globes and Fluorescent Lights
- Laboratories on Plasma Spectroscopy and Microwave Optics
- Internet Activities for Astronomy
- Advanced Projects on Microwave Interferometry and Plasma Spectroscopy
- Interactive Software on Charged Particle Motion in a Magnetic Field
- Quiz and Test Questions
For copies of plasma-related curricula, please contact Andrew
Zwicker at the email below.
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