Course Calendar

Homework Assignments*:

1. Introduction to Blackboard & Required Online Tools
2. Stereotypes of Scientists & the Scientific Method
3. Observation - The Initial Step of Science - Full Moon Madness?
4. Experiments: The true test of science: Exploring Gravity & Magnetism
5. Research: What do we know? Global Warming in the News
6. Building Scientific Models
7. Global Warming - So what do we do?
8. Gender in Science
9. Publishing, Science, & the Media: The Doomsday Asteroid!  Should Potential Disasters be publicized?
10. Ethics In Science
11. Funding for Science in Society
12. Investigating Fuel Cells and Catalysts
13. Research Paper on Global Warming Science
14. Research Paper Bibliographies
15. Understanding Earth from Studying the Universe

Lab Schedule & Labs*:

1. Observation, Measuring, Estimation, Accuracy, & Precision: The Mentos Lab!

2. Ballistics: What goes up - and down -  follows a path!

3. (Home Lab) Dropping Paper Cups!

4. Projectile Motion!  (Can you *not* hit the teacher?)

5. Heat: Conductivity

6. (Home Lab) Electrostatics: Sticky Tape and Confetti, Lemons and Vinegar!

7. Circuit Training: Making lemonade from lemons, and electromagnetism

8. Magnetism and Bird Migration

9. (Home Lab) Finding, Recording, and Analyzing Light through Photography

10. Light: Decoding Stellar Chemistry

11. Light: Interferometry

12. (Home Lab) Kitchen Chemistry

13. Are Fuel Cell Cars the Answer?

* Please note: These lists are tentative, and evolving.  Some assignments may be amended, and others added, as the class progresses.