Science Education News
Saturday, January 7, 2012 marked the kick-off of our 27th Annual Science on Saturday lecture series.
As a new extension of our CLOµDS teacher professional development program, we’ve recently initiated a club at Trenton Central High School that gives students the opportunity to build an experiment that will be performed in microgravity.
On Friday, Andrew & Aliya visited the classroom of third grade teacher Susan Franko, a participant in the CLOµDS 2011 campaign. Together, Ms. Franko, Dr. Andrew, and Aliya talked about gravity with the students and answered their questions about space & plasma.
On Friday, Aliya, Steph, and Andrew visited Ms. Hillyer’s seventh grade class as part of the CLOuDS evaluation process. Ms. Hillyer was part of the NASA professional development workshop this summer.
From November 14-18, 2011 many of PPPL’s scientists and students attended the APS DPP Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah. Throughout the week, PPPL staff and 2011 summer students were able to attend talks and poster sessions at the American Physical Society’s Division of Plasma Physi
On November 10 & 11, the Science Education department attended the 2011 NJEA Teacher Convention.
Nearly ten years of planning and a dream becomes a reality. The Sustainability Workshop, an alternative high school in Philadelphia, begins classes in September. Yesterday was an open house for students and their families. My role is small, but wonderfully satisfying.
Each fall, local residents join Princeton faculty, staff and students for Community and Staff Day, a celebration of sports, entertainment and community service at Princeton Stadium.
Time seemed to stop...
Teachers Alison Miller of South Brunswick High School and Darrell Williams of Fisher Middle School in Ewing floated over their science experiments, wearing olive-drab green jumpsuits -- not wings -- and smiles as wide as the Gulf of Mexico.
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