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row (left to right): Mike Petro, Emily Wischow, Shanna
Daly, Kelly Hutchinson, Jon Johnson, Fatima Benaissa, Mike
Pennisi, Jim Burton, Alan Szeto.
Middle row: Kent Schielke, Nick Giordano, Lynn Bryan,
Becky Van Damme, Dave Ledden, Jeremy Buchanan, Jerry Cords.
Bottom row: Bill Fornes, Dave Sederberg, Ken Kehe,
Andy Harpen, John Garner, Clark Hadley. |
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| Jerry Cords
and Becky Van Damme do a lesson on intermolecular forces. |
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| (Left to
Right) Jim Burton, Seongmin Ma, JaeTae Seo, and Anssi Lindell
do the Intermolecular Forces lesson. |
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West Lafayette,
Indiana – High school and middle school science teachers from Illinois,
Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio attended a workshop at Purdue University on
9-20 July 2007 to enhance their understanding of nanoscience. The workshop,
led by Department of Physics Professors Lynn Bryan and Nicholas Giordano,
is part of the National Center for Learning and Teaching in Nanoscale
Science and Engineering and provides teachers with the opportunity to
conduct nanoscience experiments and to develop methods for introducing
nanoscience into the classroom. The workshop emphasized the big ideas
of nanoscience including Size and Scale, Properties of Matter, Dominant
Forces, Self-Assembly, and Modeling. NCLT teachers conducted nanoscience
lessons focused on the big ideas and interacted with researchers at Purdue
University to get exposure to current trends in nanoscience research.
In addition to the lessons provided by the NCLT, teachers developed their
own nanoscience lessons for classroom use and will report back throughout
the year on the results of the lessons they are to take back to their
classrooms.
The NCLT is in its third year as a partnership between
Purdue University, Northwestern University, University of Michigan, University
of Illinois at Chicago, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Argonne
National Laboratory, Alabama A&M University, Fisk University, Hampton
University, Morehouse College, and the University of Texas at El Paso.
The NCLT is funded by the National Science Foundation.
Contact Information:
William Fornes, Program Coordinator
Purdue University
765-494-2348 (v)
765-494-0239 (f)
wfornes@purdue.edu
Website: www.nclt.us/pd_activities.htm
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