SEP Session 3, Day 8 (9-11)

Each day, we will feature several courses. The number of courses posted about each day will vary depending on our schedule and tasks for the day. Throughout the session, we will feature as many courses as possible.

In "Light! Mysteries of the Electromagnetic Spectrum," students did an infrared light lab and learned about microwaves and their function.

Today in "How to Make a Podcast," groups worked on editing their final podcasts.

This afternoon in "Parsing Primary Source: Learning to Read Like a Historian," SEP 9-11 Historians are continuing to work on creating their poster presentations about different events that took place in the Civil Rights Movement. Today students have been working in small groups to gather and analyze the sources they are using for their presentation. 

Today in "Math, Statistics, and Game Theory," teacher Simonas Cepenas modeled how to use R (a statistical coding software) to examine word usage frequency in Trump's tweets. The class also used the software to look at the relationship between the percent of women in the labor force in different countries and the fertility rate in those countries. Finally, the class made their own data set with students gender, height, how much they like hiking and if they prefer O'Hill or STAB food. Students then made predictions about the data and used R to check their predictions.

This morning in "Engineering Hogwarts," SEP engineers worked on their final project for the class. Students have been working in small groups to write and act out an original script. Today students have been working on designing and creating an invention that helps the main character solve a problem. Students are using clay, pipe cleaners, construction paper to create their original invention/props. 

This afternoon in "Building a World Class Paper Roller Coaster," students continued working on their roller coasters. They worked on adding height and twists and turns to their tracks.

Today in "Periodic Explorations," students watched a demonstration of an experiment involving liquid nitrogen. Afterward, students had the opportunity to perform the same experiment in small groups.

Best,

Nicole, Olivia and Abby