Activities and Resources from Steve Weimar's Presentation for the Georgia MSP

The Power of Observation: Notice and Wonder. Connecting student thinking to math and science while laying the foundation of scientific thinking.

Some Math Forum @ Drexel articles on Noticing and Wondering:

• How To Start Problem Solving in Your Classroom: Forget "The Question"
• Problem Solving: It Has To Begin with Noticing and Wondering
• See also other articles: The Math Forum Problem Solving Articles and The Math Forum: Teaching with the Problems of the Week

• Meter Stick Demo
• Other methods of finding the center of mass.
• More technical explanations of the Meter Stick activity:
• from ScienceBlog
• by Joseph Spradley. Note that this also contains information on the CD stacking problem we did, although here it is called "Equilibrium of a Cantilivered Stack of Meter Sticks".
• Related Videos
• Truck Rollover
• Physics Center of Gravity Project

• Stacking Books from io9
• Jim Loy Stacking CDs
• Wolfram MathWorld Stacking Book Problem
• Application: the Corbel Arch
• Maximum Overhang paper

• Growing Worms
• Top Notch Nose Contest
• Congruent Rectangles
These problems come from the Math Forum's Problems of the Week program, the only part of the Math Forum that requires a subscription. All the rest of the million plus pages are free, including Ask Dr. Math, etc.: http://mathforum.org/ .

• Mystery Tube Activity Description
• Facilitation Suggestions

• The Todd Hoover article handed out at the meeting.
• A write-up from Steve Spangler Science

• Paper Clips and Parachutes - A design activity to explore dependent and independent variables.

• Nevada's Northwestern Regional Professional Development Program
• Be on the lookout as well for the article "Support for Learners to Make (and Know That They Can Make) Connections to Science and Inquiry: The I CAN Intervention" by K. Ann Renninger, Swarthmore College, and Kathryn R. Riley, Wake Forest University which they hope to publish in CBE-Life Sciences Education

Pictures from the session