Making Sense of Change Forum Archive

FORUM ARCHIVE

Making Sense of Change:
Summer Institute on Hands-On Science
Throughout the Curriculum
Bryn Mawr College
(July 25-August 5, 2005)

Day 1:
How would you describe the beginning of the Universe?
What is your own relationship to Change?
What was your experience of Day One?
Day 2:
Experiments and Experiences in Chemistry
Day 3: Human Change
Day 4: Evolution (and Revolution?)
What story to account for existing life forms do you prefer? Why?
In what ways has our conversation altered your thinking about "evolution"? In what ways might this affect what you do in your own classroom?
Day 5: Minisymposium and Performing Change in the Community
Day 6: Metamorphosis in Literature (and Life)
Design a lesson plan in which your students write a creation story.
Re-tell a story of teaching.
Day 7: Caterpillers and Butterflies Make Choices
What role you think "choice" plays in the behavior of Langton's Ant?
What have you learned today/what do you think about choice more generally?
Day 8: Making Change with Money and with the Climate
Making "Cents" of Change
List a global environmental change issue, and the #1 question/piece of information you think would help you make sense of the issue.
Day 9: Water Play: Global Climate Change and Computing
Day 10: Assessing What's Changed

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