Bulletin of the American Physical Society
Joint Fall 2009 Meeting of the New England Section of the APS and AAPT
Volume 54, Number 11
Friday–Saturday, October 16–17, 2009; Durham, New Hampshire
Session F1: Plenary Session III |
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Chair: Martina Arndt, Bridgewater State College Room: DeMeritt Hall 112 |
Saturday, October 17, 2009 10:20AM - 11:10AM |
F1.00001: Galileo's Ideas Might Have Been Better Received If He Understood Cognitive Science Invited Speaker: Over the years, considerable rhetoric exists regarding which instructional strategies induce the largest conceptual and attitude gains in helping K-12, college students, and the general public learn science. In response, the Cognition in Astronomy, Physics and Earth Sciences Research (CAPER) Team at the University of Wyoming is conducting a systematic study of how people learn science through astronomy. By uncovering cognitive processes, including misapplied phenomenological primitives and spatial reasoning strategies, the CAPER Team is developing and testing a series of innovative classroom instructional materials constructed upon a highly scaffolded approach grounded in inquiry-instruction that has applications across many scientific disciplines. [Preview Abstract] |
Saturday, October 17, 2009 11:10AM - 12:00PM |
F1.00002: NASA's Kepler Mission: A Search for Habitable Planets Invited Speaker: The Kepler Mission, launched in March of this year, is specifically designed to survey our region of the Milky Way galaxy to discover hundreds of Earthsize and smaller planets in or near the habitable zone and determine how many of the billions of stars in our galaxy have such planets. Results from this mission will allow us to place our solar system within the continuum of planetary systems in the Galaxy. [Preview Abstract] |
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