An advanced seminar on issues of current interest in human and machine vision. Topics vary from year to year. Participants discuss current literature as well as their ongoing research.
In this art meets science activity, learners pack silver, ball-shaped ornaments in a single layer in a box to create an array of spherical reflectors. Learners can use this as a tool to study the properties of spherical mirrors while creating colorful mosaic reflections. This is a great optics activity to use during the holiday season or any time of year.
Integrated, NGSS-designed, project-based curriculum for 6th, 7th, and 8th grades.
Funded by S. D. Bechtel Jr. Foundation and SilverGiving Foundation, this 6th, 7th, and 8th grade curriculum aligns to the California Integrated model in which earth and space science, life science, physical science and/or engineering are integrated within each curriculum unit.
All the units:
are project-based
include Instructionally embedded assessments align to the 5E instructional model (i.e., engage, explore, explain, elaborate, evaluate)
are phenomena-based
provide students with opportunities to generate their own questions to motivate sense-making and/or problem solving
incorporate language development strategies
provide an additional pop-out lesson that allows students to apply what they've learned to delve deeper into the intersection of social justice, science, and the "greater good" (see "Pop-Outs" tabs)
In addition to our four instructional units, there is a unit devoted to groupwork to help teachers establish classroom norms and expectations around effective collaborative work.
What is a star and what shape is it? Students explore both artistic and scientific representations of stars, learn that stars are like the sun but much further away and make their own star hat.
Have you ever wondered what happens to the different stars in the night sky as they get older? The Star in a Box application lets you explore the life cycle of stars. It animates stars with different starting masses as they change during their lives. Some stars live fast-paced, dramatic lives; others change very little for billions of years. The app visualises the changes in mass, size, brightness and temperature for all these different stages.
Have you ever wondered what happens to the different stars in the night sky as they get older? The Star in a Box application lets you explore the life cycle of stars. It animates stars with different starting masses as they change during their lives. Some stars live fast-paced, dramatic lives; others change very little for billions of years. The app visualises the changes in mass, size, brightness and temperature for all these different stages.
This "State Capitals of the USA" freebie includes 3 fun worksheets for Alaska (largest state), Rhode Island (smallest state) and Georgia (my home state!). Each activity aims to build and strengthen the following skillsets for Pre-K thru 1st Grade students:1. Trace it-Spelling and Penmanship.2. Find ...
This is a folder of resources so that districts can have a machine readable file of academic standards for third party products. They can also be used for district work.
50 States and Capitals Quiz...
Students act as chemical engineers and use LEGO® MINDSTORMS® NXT robotics to record temperatures and learn about the three states of matter. Properties of matter can be measured in various ways, including volume, mass, density and temperature. Students measure the temperature of water in its solid state (ice) as it is melted and then evaporated.
Part 1 of a two-part Roadmap introducing the States of Matter to Lower Elementary students. The collaborative portion focuses on completing a Know-Want to Know-Learn chart for Solids, Liquids, and Gases as a class and then breaking out into either solo activities or small group activities (teacher can distribute the 2nd Roadmap as needed to fit either scenario).
Part 2 of a two-part Roadmap introducing the States of Matter to Lower Elementary students. The 1st part was a Collaborative Section and this 2nd map can be distributed to students individually or as pairs or small groups to best fit the needs of the class. Student will be directed to access portions of this map and then return to States of Matter 1 to continue with their collaborative work.
Heat, cool and compress atoms and molecules and watch as they change between solid, liquid and gas phases.
Aimed at 6th graders. Low and high ability word search for solids; liquids and gases. Crossword for states of matter.
In this simulation, you see, on the left, a picture of a box at rest on a table. You can apply a force to the box - note that you set the y-component and the x-component separately. On the right, you can see the full free-body diagram of the box. The free-body diagram shows the gravitational force exerted on the box by the Earth, the normal force exerted by the table, the force that you apply, and, if there is one, the static force of friction. Note that, on the free-body diagram, the force of gravity and the normal force have been shifted horizontally a little so they can be seen more easily. If there is a net force, that is also indicated.
A two-semester course on statistical mechanics. Basic principles are examined in 8.333: the laws of thermodynamics and the concepts of temperature, work, heat, and entropy. Postulates of classical statistical mechanics, microcanonical, canonical, and grand canonical distributions; applications to lattice vibrations, ideal gas, photon gas. Quantum statistical mechanics; Fermi and Bose systems. Interacting systems: cluster expansions, van der Waal's gas, and mean-field theory. Topics from modern statistical mechanics are explored in 8.334: the hydrodynamic limit and classical field theories. Phase transitions and broken symmetries: universality, correlation functions, and scaling theory. The renormalization approach to collective phenomena. Dynamic critical behavior. Random systems.
This course discusses the principles and methods of statistical mechanics. Topics covered include classical and quantum statistics, grand ensembles, fluctuations, molecular distribution functions, other concepts in equilibrium statistical mechanics, and topics in thermodynamics and statistical mechanics of irreversible processes.
Statistical Physics in Biology is a survey of problems at the interface of statistical physics and modern biology. Topics include: bioinformatic methods for extracting information content of DNA; gene finding, sequence comparison, and phylogenetic trees; physical interactions responsible for structure of biopolymers; DNA double helix, secondary structure of RNA, and elements of protein folding; considerations of force, motion, and packaging; protein motors, membranes. We also look at collective behavior of biological elements, cellular networks, neural networks, and evolution.
This course explores the theory of self-assembly in surfactant-water (micellar) and surfactant-water-oil (micro-emulsion) systems. It also introduces the theory of polymer solutions, as well as scattering techniques, light, x-ray, and neutron scattering applied to studies of the structure and dynamics of complex liquids, and modern theory of the liquid state relevant to structured (supramolecular) liquids.
The classic Stern-Gerlach Experiment shows that atoms have a property called spin. Spin is a kind of intrinsic angular momentum, which has no classical counterpart. When the z-component of the spin is measured, one always gets one of two values: spin up or spin down.