Magdeburg Hemispheres
Are you stronger than the air?
Magdeburg Hemispheres
 Summer Teacher Workshop

Middle School Science Teachers
June 18-22, 2007

UW-Madison, Dept. of Physics &
Edgewood College, Office of Science Outreach
 Making Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream
Making Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream

Physics Lessons (downloads in pdf format) Diffraction Glasses
Using diffraction gratings to veiw atomic spectra.
Pedagogy
  • How People Learn
  • Scientific Inquiry
  • What the Teacher Does Really Matters
    • Questioning (HRASE)
Guest Lectures
  • Chaos and Complex Systems, Prof. Clint Sprott
  • The Dynamo Experiment, Prof. Cary Forest

Schedule (pdf)
 Construction
Building classroom demonstrations.

Projects & Lesson Plans

 		Mystery Boxes
  • Motors
 Motor
String Racer

Wilberforce Pendulum       Chaotic Pendulum
Newton's Cradle
Inertia Block Construction
Ballon in a Bottle
  • Magnetic Newton's Cradle
 Magnetic Newton's Cradle

Color Wheel
Participants Contact Info

Sarah Alme, Prairie View MS,  slalme@spasd.k12.wi.us
Katie Grundahl, Waunakee MS, kgrundahl@waunakee.k12.wi.us
Rachael Lancor, UW-Madison, rlancor@wisc.edu
David Matthews, DeForest MS, dmatthews@deforest.k12.wi.us
Denise McCulley, Eagle School, dmc@sbcglobal.net
Debra Pfab, SS Andrew-Thomas, dpfab@tds.net
Amy Schiebel, Edgewood College, aschiebel@edgewood.edu
Dan Toomey, Edgewood Campus School, dtoomey@edgewood.edu
Holly Tourdot, Blessed Sacrament School, htourdot@school.blsacrament.org
Mimi Wagner, Wisconsin Heights MS, mwagner@wisheights.k12.wi.us

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University of Wisconsin
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Madison, WI 53706

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 wonders@physics.wisc.edu

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This page updated on July 3, 2007.