August 1

Meeting Results

Scheduling stuff

General Schedule

• Sept. 15th evening

1. food restrictions for dinner-- no dairy for Sora!
2. ask other grads to come (Physical Science oriented)
3. Talk with BIO-WEST about icebreaker

• Sept. 16th

1. 2 faculty members talk about exciting research

 possibilities:
  Seth Rubin (Biochem)
  Paul Koch (Earth Sciences/ Ecology)
  Adrienne Steineker (Astro)
  Phil Kruz (Chem)
  John Zehr (Ocean Sciences)

1. Possible rooms

  *EMS A340
  *ISB 102

--> Split into Phys- and BIO- WEST groups

  *11A to 5P for Phys-WEST

• Sept. 17th- 9A to 12-ish for Phys-WEST

  *after lunch- poster session for BIO- and PHYS-WEST to share work
  *undergrad panel (preferably transfer students who are involved in grad research)
  possibilities:
  Elizabeth Hoosier (Ecology)
  Adrienne (Earth Sciences)
  Mariko (Chem)
  Chris (Chem)
  *lab tours: (break into small groups?)
  Stable isotope lab0 Earth Sciences and Ecology
  Adaptive Optics
  Chemistry-- single crystal x-ray
  *Info. session on majors, different tracks, and undergraduate advisers in individual departments
  possibilities to come and inform the students: Cathy Smith (Earth and Planetary Sciences) & Adrienne Steineker (Astro)
  maybe have an info sheet for the students to take with them

Specific schedule on the 16th: Have the students go immediately into the inquiry activity so they don't get sick of hearing people

• ~10-15 min. information on inquiry learning
• starters- 3 stations, 10 minutes/station, question strips

  1. coupled pendulum
  2. double pendulum
  3. ? springs

• lunch break (until 1:30-ish)
• advising sessions?
• Gallery walk (~20 min.)
• ~2.5 hours for inquiry

  *30 minutes after start students should have refined question
  *snack break/pair share (5 minutes)
  *4:30-4:45ish end day with Thinking tool
  *written eval (mid-point for HW)

on the 17th:

• ~1-1.5 hour to wrap things up, conclude investigation
• poster making ~30 minutes
• talk 5 minutes + questions 3 minutes= 8 minutes total (1-1.5 hours for talks)
• Synthesis: 20-30 minutes
• final evaluation

Mock Inquiry

• 8/20, each us rally 3 other graduate students/people
• 2-5ish with dinner afterwards as a bribe

===What we need to do:=== (how long it should take, rank)

• facilitator roles (30 minutes)
• come up with starter (2 hours, 2)
• thinking tool (2 hours)
• synthesis (2 hours, 1)
• materials list (30 minutes)
• questions to ask students for feedback, pre-test (30 minutes)
• reserve physics lab for 8/20 and 8/7 (marc)

future meetings:

Tuesdays and Thursdays

• 8/5- synthesis action! think about broad applications
• 8/7-meet in physics lab
• 8/12
• 8/14
• 8/19?- last minute before mock inquiry