{"id":1063,"date":"2011-03-19T11:08:47","date_gmt":"2011-03-19T17:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/?p=1063"},"modified":"2011-03-19T11:24:16","modified_gmt":"2011-03-19T17:24:16","slug":"energy-theatre-by-the-seattle-pacific-university-per-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/2011\/03\/19\/energy-theatre-by-the-seattle-pacific-university-per-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Energy Theatre by the Seattle Pacific University PER Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1064\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1064\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spu.edu\/depts\/physics\/EnergyProject.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1064 \" title=\"Energy Project at Seattle Pacific University\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/files\/2011\/03\/SPU.-300x218.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/files\/2011\/03\/SPU.-300x218.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/files\/2011\/03\/SPU..png 822w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1064\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Energy Project at Seattle Pacific University<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I wanted to put a short comment on the presentation by Dr. Hunter Close from the Seattle Pacific University that I just listened to. Hunter spoke on how they use the idea of kinestetic representation to help middle school teachers to understand the concept of energy. It is part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spu.edu\/depts\/physics\/EnergyProject.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Seattle Pacific University Energy Project. <\/a>It is a very exciting project. I was just thinking that the concept of energy is not a central concept in BC K-7 curriculum&#8230; My middle school pre-service teachers didn&#8217;t have a chance to discuss this important science concept to the extent we should have and Hunter&#8217;s presentation made me think how I will do it next year and how interesting and rich the research can be if we take a closer look at how our future teachers learn science concepts and learn how to teach science.<\/p>\n<p>Another interesting ideas: the use of white board, the &#8220;power of a pen&#8221; (who writes), the power of student dissatisfaction with different ideas, various sources of data helping researchers observe how students discuss ideas.<\/p>\n<p>Hunter spoke about the lesson where elementary teachers were asked to create a theatrical representation of how a fridge work &#8211; all the energy transformations, etc. It is a very sophisticated task and it was interesting to see the videos showing how the teachers discussed it and how sophisticated their ideas were.<\/p>\n<p>For the link to their paper: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spu.edu\/depts\/physics\/documents\/EClose-EnergyInActionrevised3-Proceedings.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Energy Project SPU link:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spu.edu\/depts\/physics\/EnergyProject.htm\" target=\"_blank\"> click here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I took a number of photos during Hunter&#8217;s presentation for the photos from the talk:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/album.php?aid=373109&amp;id=643353361&amp;l=208dd9ad40\" target=\"_blank\"> click here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to put a short comment on the presentation by Dr. Hunter Close from the Seattle Pacific University that I just listened to. Hunter spoke on how they use the idea of kinestetic representation to help middle school teachers&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/2011\/03\/19\/energy-theatre-by-the-seattle-pacific-university-per-group\/\" class=\"readmore\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Energy Theatre by the Seattle Pacific University PER Group<\/span><span class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[795,6989,6981,31,2708],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-general-teaching","category-interactivity-in-the-classroom","category-personal","category-teacher-education","content-layout-excerpt-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1063"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1066,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063\/revisions\/1066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}