Cornell University - July 5 - 17 and 25 - 31, 2009
The CIPT offers high school physics teachers a unique and intensive summer opportunity for professional development. Graduate credit in physics is awarded for CIPT courses by Cornell University. The CIPT offers one-week and two-week graduate courses, covering topics in contemporary physics and related applications, for 20 selected teachers each. Additional teachers with outside funding will be considered for acceptance into the program.
The CIPT graduate courses contain lectures, lab tours, and innovative, inquiry-based laboratory experiments. Lectures and lab tours are designed to update high school physics teachers on recent advances in diverse topic areas. The laboratory component of the course provides teachers a deeper understanding of the subject matter and free access to the CIPT’s equipment lending library. This enables teachers to easily bring their new knowledge and these high-quality, student-centered laboratory activities into their classrooms. Labs are borrowed for 10 days at no expense to the teacher. A CD containing all course materials is provided for both courses and a $1000.00 budget to purchase CIPT hardware is provided for teachers completing PHYS 6501
PHYS 6501 Contemporary Physics for Teachers, 2 credits. July 5 -17. This course is open to high school physics teachers new to CIPT. Lectures are given by Dr. Julie Nucci and many Cornell faculty on topics including: electronics, photonics, nanotechnology, and particle physics. Lab tours provide a glimpse into state-of-the-art academic research. The lab activities, which are co-developed by high school physics teachers and Cornell scientists, are presented by teachers. Approximately 20 lab activities are offered including: building a water analogy to electric circuits, sending and receiving optical communication signals, observing subatomic particles with a cloud chamber, mapping a hidden “molecule,” and examining the quantum nature of light with LEDs.
PHYS 6502 Topics in Physics for Teachers, 1 credit. July 25 - 31. This lecture and laboratory course is open only to alumni of PHYS 6501. Lectures are given by Dr. Julie Nucci and other Cornell faculty. This course, which changes every year, is designed around newly developed CIPT labs. The 2009 course is expected to feature activities on: the physics of baseball, the nature of resistance, static electricity, transformers, a physics view of biological membrane function and nerve signal transmission, and a water analogy to a capacitor.
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