Microscopy
Camp 2008
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
Click HERE to see great stuff from Microscopy Camp 2007!!!!
Click HERE to see great stuff from Microscopy Camp 2006!!!!
Click HERE to see great stuff from Microscopy Camp 2005!!!!
Questions: Can we see atoms? What is the current model of atomic structure? What equipment is used to image objects at atomic resolution? How small is nano? Is nanotechnology important for me and my students? How are nanoparticles detected and characterized? What are the ethical and medical advantages and concerns of using nanoparticles? How can we teach students about the particulate nature of matter?.
Wanted: Fourteen enthusiastic Secondary Science Teachers with an interest in learning and applying state-of-the-art microscopy (HRTEM, AFM & SEM) to observe nanoparticles and various chemical and biological particles. Teachers will learn about atomic structure imaging and curriculum implementation for their classrooms as well as explore and work in a research laboratory. The program is designed by a teacher- so you know we’ll have fun too! All fourteen participants last year replied “YES!” they would recommend this class to a colleague!
What: Microscopy Camp 2008
Where: Departments of Chemistry and Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Minnesota
When: July 14 - July 18, 2008
What we will do: See and use state-of-the-art characterization microscopes: Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM), High High-Resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy (HRTEM), and Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM). Explore Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) issues under the framework of Nanotechnology Education. Synthesize and characterize nanocrystalline GOLD and MAGNETITE. Explore curriculum that can immediately be employed in middle school and high school life and physical science classrooms.
What else willwe do? We will make slime, liquid nitrogen ice cream, methanol rockets, and soda geysers. We will explode balloons filled with hydrogen and oxygen and so much more!
Who:
Profs. Lee Penn
and Leslie Flynn
Contact Information
Some
Details:
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Free: no cost to teachers from urban Minneapolis & St.Paul School District
• Graduate Credit: 3 FREE semester credits
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Free lunch and snacks each day; including a special “Lunch w/Scientists” from
around the University to meet and make contacts for future work or questions.
• Free course materials
• $100 cash to spend as you want!
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Helps teachers increase students achievement in these Minnesota Science Standards:
Physical Science, Structure of Matter, History & Nature of Science, Scientific
World View, Scientific Inquiry, Scientific Enterprise, Historic Perspectives,
Nanotechnology.
• Engages secondary science teachers in a full range of concepts across
grade levels allowing productive curricular interactions with varied grade level
teachers.
• Website created by teachers to share findings and curriculum with colleagues
and science classes! http://www.chem.umn.edu/microscopycamp/
Need more information? Contact Leslie Flynn leslie@umn.edu
(612) 625-3267
Click here for the registration form.
Registration priority given to teachers from high needs schools. After
June 1st, 2008 enrollmen is open to other schools on first come basis.
What to bring:
Lab-appropriate clothing (long pants, CLOSED toe shoes)
Something interesting to examine under a light microscope (e.g., a dead insect)
Calculator
U of MN ID number, if you have one.
SSN number (so we can write each participant a $100 check)
Lap-top computer, if possible.
Funds for this project were provided by a grant from the federal Teacher Quality Program of the No Child Left Behind Act administered by the Minnesota Office of Higher Education. This project was financed by $ 44,223 in federal funds and $8,190 from nonfederal sources.