Brain Storming Ideas

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Demo/Starter Ideas

Pendulums

Barton Coupled Oscillator- Coupled Pedulmulum with multiple length of pendulums on a single string.  The one that starts large oscillators will be the one with the same length of string

Very related to Coupled Pendulum Starter

Perhaps sutable for a suggestion if students are looking for a way to demonstrate/confirm their hypothesis

Sound

Singing Rod- Rub a single rod until it makes a sound

Glass shattering- Play a note until a glass shatters

Not sutable for investigations because the students would be breaking too many glasses probably

Springs

Coupled Springs- Two springs coupled vertically 

Spring - Pedulum

http://scitation.aip.org/journals/doc/AJPIAS-ft/vol_72/iss_6/818_1.html

Wilberforce Pendulum

http://www.phy.davidson.edu/StuHome/pecampbell/Wilberforce/Wilberforce.htm

(We could try making a Spring - Pendulum and a Wilberforce Pendulum & see how hard it is... a potential neat starter would be showing to springs, one you start oscillating and it starts twisting, one you start oscillating and it starts swinging)

Other

LC Circuits

Other Ideas

More Involved Synthesis-

One thing we could do is keep the inquiry activity itself pretty simple,
focusing just on the coupled pendulum & springs and reduce the amount of
time for the investigations a little.  Then we could use some more time to
do some sort of more elaborate synthesis.  Instead of just telling the
students that this is a model for other systems we could get end
puzzles... show them something like sound resonance or light resonance and
see if we can get them to collectively explain what is going on.
We could even ask them to spend a little time trying to think themselves
about how this might relate to their own disciplines.

Shorter Inquiry and add in

Crazy ideas-
 - Role playing situations that come up in Research
 - "Speed dating" with grad students/faculty

    One idea here would be to get just grads & ask them how they got involved in their current research (or grad school)

    Possibly having people talk for a few minutes at first and then allowing them to sit down in smaller groups so that people can ask questions

    Other way to make it active?
 - How to read a paper