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Some of the volunteers have volunteered information about
specialized equipment or skills that they have and are willing to share.
ALL the volunteers are willing to take on almost any request to research
a topic or to provide information or to help in developing a lesson plan
or powerpoint presentation. Most of the volunteers are also willing to share
at schools other than the one where they usually volunteer.
Art Krakowsky
- Van de Graaff Demonstration.
- Static elecricity, conductor, insulator, grounding,
ionization, discharge.
- Powerpoint Lightning Presentation
- Static electricity, ionization, electric current, safety,
speed of sound and light.
- Build an electric motor--each student builds their
own.
- Current electricity, magnetism, energy, insulator,
conductor, motor applications.
- Density--students make measurements of various materials--lead,
copper, wood, etc.
- Mass vs. weight, volume by displacement, graphing,
estimation, density of various materials.
- Magnetism--Several stations where students discover
magnetism properties.
- Series and parallel circuits.
- Vacuum with bell jar-- Sound transmission, marshmallow
expansion, gravity.
- Several GEMS lessons--Chemical reactions, Oobleck,
Density, etc.
- Thermal conductivity of various materials--Graphing
timed measurements. Correlate with electrical conductivity.
- I have an oscilloscope and can demonstrate sound wave
forms that students generate and waveforms of different frequencies.
- I have a hydrolysis set-up
- I have a lesson to help students visualize how sound
is used to visualize what's inside the earth.
Barbara Mallon
- Earthquakes and plate tectonics
- Air pressure. (I saved some Coleman cans to buckle.)
- Planets, moon, height of sun at noon through the year
in the planetarium and from a computer to a classroom screen.
- Digital frog (a virtual dissection that you can go
where you want and ask as many questions as you like. The kicker is
at the end you can hear frog sounds around the world.)
- How a glow stick works.
- Atoms and molecules. (I need to find something that
isn't so sticky but you can build with toothpicks).
- Properties of different wavelengths of light. (hand
prints on photo paper, UV beads, Infrared camera set up from Sandia)
- Alka-Seltzer rockets.
- TJ's tea tray.
- Electricity and motor experiments
Bill Bish
- I am a mechanical engineering with a specialty in design.
- I have knowledge, experience in collecting, and a collection
of rocks & minerals.
- One item in my collection is a display of fossil leaves,
stems, flowers from the Pennsylvanian period that my family collected
from the coal strip mines in central Illinois.
- I have a list of challenge design/build projects for
4 or 5th graders much like the egg drop - impact packaging contest held
@ Arroyo Seco. There are presently 6 projects on the list and I am working
on more.
- I have access to a Geiger counter and some radioactive
mineral specimens.
Nancy Stoyer
- B.S. in Chemistry; Ph.D. in Chemistry (focus on Nuclear
Science)
- My expertise includes the periodic table, new element
discovery, nuclear energy, radiochemistry, nuclear science, age dating,
radioactivity, nuclear structure, nuclear forensics, and a bunch of
other nuclear topics.
- I enjoy cooking and the science that is involved with
that. A couple years ago I did some experiments with GATE students at
Arroyo Seco Elementary on freezing point depression which included making
frozen yogurt and observing the texture and sweetness of different fruit
ices. A few months ago I did an experiment with the 2nd grade classes
at Arroyo Seco Elementary on yeast; we talked about what they are, what
they eat, what they produce, and how they are used.
Gary Porter
- Education in geology (undergraduate), physics and Nuclear
Engineering
Research experience in magnetic fusion
- In grades 3,4 and 5: Physical science, static electricity,
electricity, magnetism, pressure Earth science, minerals, gems, plate
tectonics
- I have put together PowerPoint presentations on static
electricity, magnetism, Newton's laws, the scientific method and solar
pictures
Ken Mitchell
- I have had the 4th and 5th graders make simple electric
motors
- Star finders, all grades
- Solar system/star watching, 3rd graders
- Vibration (guitar songs, which they liked better than
anything else that day)
- Water-cycle
- Making a cloud chamber
- GATE students played with Soma Cubes for several weeks
and
made height finders.
- Second graders learned about wind forces and built
simple paper airplanes --
drove the teachers nuts for a few weeks afterwards. The students proudly
showed me their little planes trapped in the unreachable areas of the
classroom. :-)
- I did a number of sessions on basic astronomy topics
in preparation for the planetarium session.
- Kindergarten kids got a basic introduction to hand
tools. They loved the mortise saw and enjoyed hammering nails into wood
blocks -- unfortunately some nailed the blocks to the floor. Lots of
fun.
Carl Rosenkilde
- Van de Graaff Demonstration: charge repulsion and attraction,
direction of electrical force, ionization, discharge, shielding and
grounding (safety), establish sign of charge. Comment: This demonstration
is suitable for 4th grade students, who have been exposed to the fact
that there are two kinds of charge and that like charges repel and unlike
charges attract. I illustrate and reinforce those concepts in my 30-40
minute presentation.
- Tesla Coil Demonstration: EM waves, shielding, conductivity,
ionization, discharge. Comment: This demonstration is best done after
students have seen a Van de Graaff presentation. It takes less time,
about 15-20 minutes.
- Earth's Circumference Measurement: This is a outdoor
activity using GPS device(s) to repeat the estimate of the Earth's circumference
made by Eratosthenes (200 BC). Knowledge of circle properties (pi) and
some large number multiplication would be helpful.
T.J. Gilmartin-Although T.J. is not currently active in TOPScience,
He indicated that he would be willing to occasionally teach a class.
- Physical Sciences, Mechanics, Astronomy, Optics and
Lasers, Mathematics
- Projects: Weather station, planetary astronomy sun
dial, catapults, constellations, Newton (Laws) Turkish Tea Tray, Comets
(dry ice), Archimedes, Bernoulli, Pascal principles, Circuits, Thrust
(balloons)
- Equipment: Turkish tea trays, catapults, video microscope
(1X, 30X, 200X) playable through TV, installed weather station (wind,
temperature, pressure), 18X image-stabilized binoculars (birds, moon,
Jupiter
- Level: worked mostly with 8th grade
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