The workshop schedule:agenda_16.pdf

These pictures are from the workshop held at Lowell 17-18 November 2016. 19 teachers from 11 schools participated, including one university professor from Montana. (Photos courtesy Deidre Hunter, Mary Demuth, and Alma Ruiz Velasco).

Assembling materials in bins.

Volunteers Jeff and Glenda help prepare materials for teacher's bins.

Counting block jigs made by Jeff Gehring for the Venus Topography Box activity.

Teacher bins lined up in the Giclas Lecture Hall.

Black Box activity with Alma.

Black Box activity with Deidre.

Todd talks about expanding an activity into a Project Based Learning unit.

Crater activity.

Crater activity.

Crater activity with Michael and Deidre.

Venus Topography Box activity: making the landscape.

Venus Topography Box activity with Travis: making the landscape.

Venus Topography Box activity with Travis: making the landscape.

Todd talks about standards and Project Based Learning after the Venus Topography Box activity, as Joey cleans up.

Deidre and Joey demonstrate moon phases.

Will talks about the Solar System as introduction to the Thousand Yard Model of the Solar System.

Groups design and build the capsules for their eggs in the Egg Drop activity, led by Alethia.











Egg Drop activity: The ultimate test



















Will talks about the results from New Horizons' fly-by of Pluto.