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Outreach. The audience General Public Students Scientists The issues How do we get their attention? What do we do once you have it?. Proven expertise ( The Wonders of Physics ). The Wonders of Physics. Fast-paced demonstration show covering all areas of classical physics
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Outreach • The audience • General Public • Students • Scientists • The issues • How do we get their attention? • What do we do once you have it? Proven expertise (The Wonders of Physics)
The Wonders of Physics • Fast-paced demonstration show covering all areas of classical physics • 20 years, 161 public campus presentations, >50,000 people • 15 years, ~800 traveling shows, ~50,000 people mostly in WI but throughout the USA • 20 hours of videotapes • Teacher workshops • Web sites (2) • Lecture Kit (NSF funded)
Topics • Motion • Heat • Sound • Electricity • Magnetism • Light • Modern Physics
Over 800 shows in 15 yrs Mostly precollege schools Full-time outreach person (Jim Reardon) supported half by DOE (MST) and half by NSF Donations ($100-400) requested per show Some corporate donors Traveling Show
Proposed Activities • Additional plasma demonstrations • Minorities & impoverished areas • Expanded Web presence • Graduate student / postdoc training • Workshops for K-12 teachers • Lesson plans for teachers (?) • Assessment of results (?) • Advisory board (?)
What are Others Doing? • Ultrafast Optical Science (Univ of Michigan) • Cosmological Physics (Univ Chicago) • JILA (Univ Colorado) • MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms • IceCube (Univ of Wisconsin)
Ultrafast Optical Science (U. Mich) • Michigan Reach Out! mentor program • Summer Research Experience for undergrads • Physics Olympiad sponsorship • Public talks by center scientists
Cosmological Physics (U. Chicago) • Weekend courses in cosmology for educators • TA support for hands-on lab for inner-city 7-12 graders • Visiting scholars from other institutions • 6-8 week cosmology curriculum for middle school under development
JILA (U. Colorado) • CU Wizards (Monthly presentations for elementary school students (broadly targeted) • Physics 2000 (Web-based physics lab)
MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms • TOPS (Teaching opportunities in physical science) targets undergrads in science interesting in teaching • Art exhibit • School visits (only one listed on Website!) • Video program for Japanese public TV
IceCube (U. Wisconsin) • 2-week summer workshops for teachers (15 teachers in 2002) • Classroom curriculums developed as part of workshop • Extensive written materials on Web • Message board where teachers can get answers from scientists