[CPEPnews] Summer Teacher Workshop that may be of interest to you

[Howard Matis]

Would it be possible for you to circulate to CPEP and any group of your teachers somehow the announcement of
our workshop below? It will be a great workshop. E.G., students have the opportunity to learn central
force motion by studying the motion of the moons of Jupiter, on real Jupiter moons
images, in a Modeling Instruction Context.


           Many Thanks,

          Carl Pennypacker
          UC Berkeley

Announcement of Modeling Instruction Workshop Follows:
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Hello Good Teachers,
As many of you may know, we are having our first 3-week Modeling Instruction Astronomy (HOU - Hands-On Universe) 
workshop beginning on July 8, 2019, in Louisville, Kentucky.The registration for the workshop is now open: 
https://www.eweblife.com/prm/AMTA/calendar/event?event=2022 <https://www.eweblife.com/prm/AMTA/calendar/event?event=2022> and details are still being worked out.  
The workshop fees are set at $800 and dorm-living costs are reasonable.  Of course the $800 fee for the 
workshop is required as of now, but we have found some funding for this workshop to defray costs for participants.  
Any scholarships we receive or stipends to offset costs will be given to teachers who have sincerely committed to the workshop.
MI Astronomy can be deployed in middle school or high school physical science classes, new NGSS-encouraged Earth and 
Space Science courses, a year-long or semester long astronomy course, or multi-week stints in Physics classrooms 
There are some reasonable incentives for teachers who participate in this workshop -- 1) teachers receive two types 
of HOU image processing software (one for Chromebooks and tablets, and the other for Macs and PC's); 2) 
access and training on significant helper software, such as planetarium software; 3) nighttime use of a 
telescope in Louisville during the workshop (depending on weather and equipment); 4) just recently, arguably 
some of the most complete images of Jupiter's moons were acquired for you all, which along with the other HOU; 
and 5) AMTA has been awarded at least 10 hours of 0.4 meter telescope time for participants in this workshop. 
So each workshop participant gets some telescope time for their class!!A description of Modeling Astronomy 
with deference to the telescopes can be found in these conference proceedings from 
last year: https://rtsre.net/ojs/index.php/rtsreconfproc/article/view/17 <https://rtsre.net/ojs/index.php/rtsreconfproc/article/view/17>.  
AMTA Senior Fellow Dr. Colleen Megowan and workshop leader Dr. Stephen Colbert helped write this article, 
and they have been leaders and guides through all of Modeling Instruction Astronomy.
These are very exciting times in astrophysics, with black holes colliding and emitting gravity waves throughout 
the Universe, galaxies merging, and the evolving understanding of a very complex, beautiful, and wonderful 
Universe that is replete with amazing activities for students and teachers.  And data from many of these 
beautiful and wonderful events and others in the Universe can now be in you and your students' hands!
 
Come join us!
Many Thanks,
Carl Pennypacker
UC Berkeley

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