Michigan Tech’s Western UP Center for Science, Math and Environmental Education is inviting children in grades 1-7 to spend six Monday afternoons after school learning about science and engineering.
Classes for grades 1-3 begin Monday, Oct. 14 and run through Monday, Nov. 18. Children will design and build wind turbines and engineer animal sounds.
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Assistant Professor Adam Feltz (CLS) and Associate Professor Edward Cokely (CLS) have published a new paper entitled Predicting Philosophical Disagreement in the journal Philosophy Compass.
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Many area schools participated in a teachers’ in-service day on October 11, 2013. The Western UP Center provided a fun day of science activities for students in grades 1-6.
Grades 1-3: Best of Bugs
Grades 4-6: Cardboard Carnival
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Assistant Professor, Myounghoon “Philart” Jeon (CLS) and his students presented two projects at the 57th International Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES2013), San Diego, Sept. 30 through Oct. 4. The projects were “Sadder but wiser? Effects of negative emotions on risk perception, driving performance, and perceived workload,” and “Increasing physical therapy patient compliance and satisfaction with web-based applications.”
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Teachers learn about peatlands, carbon, climate change at Michigan Tech’s Global Change Institute
Carrie Wilkinson, a science teacher at Grayling (Mich.) Middle School, may begin one of her science classes this fall by showing students how to make “a bog in a bottle” — one of the take-home projects resulting from a week at Michigan Tech’s summer Teachers’ Institute on Global Change July 8-12, 2013.
During the 5-day institute, Wilkinson said she was learning a lot about exposure of soils and peatland to the global carbon cycle and hoped she could apply this new knowledge in her classroom.
Read more at Keweenaw Now, by Michele Bordieu.
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Edward Cokely’s (CLS) paper “Communicating Health Risks with Visual Aids” has been published in the journal “Current Directions in Psychological Science.”
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Apply for Summer Institute for Teachers “Geology of Utah’s National Parks.” The institute takes place June 14 – July 1, 2014. The application deadline is March 1, 2014.
Students take EPA readings
Area teens visit superfund site
Lake Linden-Hubbell High School and Dollar Bay High School students measured plant life at the Torch Lake Superfund site in a Lake Superior Stewardship Initiative project. The data collected by students is sent on to the Environmental Protection Agency for its monitoring of the post-remediation recovery of the Torch Lake area.
On Oct. 1, the students will board the Agassiz, Michigan Technological University’s research vessel, and take samples of sediments in Torch Lake.
“They can go and monitor the lake and see if the nice, healthy plant cover is stopping stamp sand from going into the lake,” said Joan Chadde, education program coordinator for the Western U.P. Center for Science, Math and Environmental Education.
Read more at the Mining Gazette, by Garrett Neese.
The Portage Lake District Library hosted K-6 students and their parents for an evening of fun, science and technology led by Michigan Tech students on Tuesday, September 24, from 6:30 – 8:00 p.m. Families learned about the basics of circuitry and electrical engineering with a night of creative and playful interactive lessons.
This event was conducted by the Western U.P. Center for Science, Math, and Environmental Education and Michigan Technological University.