Conducting experiments at EMSEA14
Kristin’s and my workshop at EMSEA14.
As I mentioned before, Kristin Richter and I are running the workshop “Conducting oceanographic experiments in a conventional classroom anywhere” at the European Marine Science Educator’s Association Meeting in Gothenburg, Sweden. There is quite an active Twitter crowd around, so you can follow the storyfied meeting or look out for #EMSEA14 on Twitter.
Our workshop has been represented quite well there, too, so I’ll just post a couple of my own pictures here.
Final preparations: Kristin is mixing salt water
Watching intently the melting ice. As my former boss would say: It’s like watching paint dry.
Except that it is really fascinating and that there are so many things to discuss!
Kristin and I took turns presenting the workshops, which was great. Plus it was really nice to have two instructors walking around, talking to the groups, instead of just one.
Kristin talking about using our favorite experiment to practice applying the scientific method.
For further reading, here are our slides.
Plus there are a lot of post dealing with the exact same experiment after the cut below. And there are two more posts on this exact experiment coming up that are scheduled already, one tomorrow, the other one in two weeks time. And thanks to a very nice family of participants I already have plenty of ideas of how to modify this experiment in the future!
[edit: There finally is a picture of me in the workshop, too, to show that I actually did contribute and not just leave it all to Kristin:
So I did actually do something, too, and not just take pictures. Plus did you notice how there is a EMSEA sign on the podium? There were signs on the doors, too, both on the inside and outside, so one of them was visible even when the door was wide open. Such good thinking of the organizers! Gothenburg University does have a seriously impressive infrastructure in any case: Tables and chairs on wheels so the whole room could easily be modified to suit our needs. Awesome.]
Continuity | Adventures in Oceanography and Teaching says:
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Using the “melting ice cube” experiment to let future instructors experience inquiry-based learning. | says:
[…] can also be sure, that people come up with new experiments they want to try. At EMSEA14, people asked what would happen if the ice cubes were at the bottom of the beaker. Today, people […]
Using the “melting ice cube” experiment to let future instructors experience inquiry-based learning. – Mirjam S. Glessmer says:
[…] can also be sure, that people come up with new experiments they want to try. At EMSEA14, people asked what would happen if the ice cubes were at the bottom of the beaker. Today, people […]
Experiment: Ice cubes melting in fresh water and salt water – Mirjam S. Glessmer says:
[…] At EMSEA14, people asked what would happen if the ice cubes were held at the bottom of the beaker. […]