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Science Educators' Day 2011

“Science Educators’ Day” (EDAY) is a special free event hosted by The Optical Society (OSA) for pre-college educators! This program will focus on effective and innovative approaches to science education, with an emphasis on hands-on, interactive classroom activities. Please register by September 31 to reserve your place!

Cost: FREE!
Date: Wednesday, 19 October 2011
Time: 5:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
(5:00-6:30 dinner/demonstrations; 6:30-8:00 hands-on workshop)
Where: Sainte Claire Hotel in downtown San Jose, CA
Includes: Dinner, parking, classroom materials, lesson plans, hands-on workshop, activity kits and more!

The registration process is EASY! To confirm your attendance you may either

  1. Fill out the EDAY registration form or
  2. Email your contact information to eday@osa.org.

 

To learn more about OSA and EDAY, please visit www.osa-foundation.org/programs/resources/eday.

 

 

Science Educators' Day 2010

 

EDAY 2010: LASERAMA IN ROCHESTER!

Special FREE event for Middle and High School Educators!

Eday photo

What is EDAY: LASERAMA? This annual event is being held at the Rochester Riverside Convention Center in Rochester, NY, USA, on October 27 from 4:30-8:00 pm and focuses on effective and innovative approaches to science education, with an emphasis on hands-on, interactive classroom lessons. Over fifty years ago, the invention of the laser revolutionized the way we live. This program focuses on methods for incorporating laser-focused learning activities into the classroom.

  • Physics of Lasers Workshop, Heide Doss, APS Education Consultant
    Through hands-on activities, participants will explore the properties of laser light and then use these properties for interesting applications, including the speckle pattern on human skin and measuring the diameter of hair using diffraction. Also, participants will work through the PhET simulation of laser operation.
  • Diffraction Workshop, Monica Plisch, APS Education Director
    This workshop offers a qualitative exploration of diffraction, with numerous experiments and emphasis on fundamental wave properties. Experiments include observing diffraction with a lamp filament, including through color filters, shining a laser pointer beam at slits scratched in a painted microscope slide, observing diffraction from DVDs and CDs, and also from metal mesh and a plastic grating.
  • Receive a free packet of educational resources and lesson plans for replicating demonstrations in the classroom
  • Enjoy a complimentary dinner with other local science educators

And so much more!

The registration process is EASY; sign up one of three ways:

  1. Fill out the quick, easy online form
  2. Email your contact information to eday@osa.org to let us know you plan to attend or
  3. Fax the completed registration form to 202-416-6134.

To learn more about EDAY, visit the Facebook event page. Click here to download the event flyer and pass to your colleagues.

Check back for more details or email us if you’d like to receive an event announcement.


Science Educators' Day 2009

EDAY 2009

SCIENCE EDUCATORS' DAY

Thursday, October 15, 2009 6:00-8:00 pm
Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center
Stanford University

  • Attend this FREE event for middle and high school science teachers sponsored by the Optical Society of America (OSA), the Stanford OSA Student Chapter, and the Department of Electrical Engineering

  • The program will focus on effective and innovative approaches to science education, with an emphasis on hands-on, interactive classroom lessons

  • Come see low-cost experiments and demonstrations on optical phenomena (that you can use in your classroom!):

    • Fluorescence: Viewing Glowing Colors and Invisible Ink

    • Splitting White Light: Prisms, Soap bubbles, and Rainbows

    • Creating Colors from Polarization

    • Waveguides: Water and Jell-O Light Pipes, Fiber Optics

    • And Much More!

  • Gift bags containing demonstration aids and lesson plans for the first 100 registrants; additional optics materials available as door prizes

  • Enjoy a complimentary dinner with other local science educators

  • Meet Stanford and Berkeley graduate students, staff, and local educators interested in science outreach

Space will be limited, register today!  Deadline: Friday, October 2nd, 2009.

The registration process is simple; teachers can register one of three ways:

  1. Fill out the quick, easy online form at http://www.frontiersinoptics.org/Forms/EdayOnlineForm.aspx
  2. Email their contact information to kcoffm@osa.org to let us know they plan to attend, or
  3. Fax the completed registration form (download the PDF version) to 202-416-6134.

Please feel free to distribute registration information to your fellow teachers and make additional copies of the registration form if needed!

To learn more about OSA and EDAY, visit:

http://www.osa.org/educationresources/youtheducation/educatorsevents/default.aspx

Please contact us if you have any questions about the program!

Science Educators' Day 2008

EDAY 2009 was held in Rochester, NY.  Stanford OSA/SPIE had our popular Polarization demonstration on hand:

 

 

 

See a whole collection of videos at http://www.youtube.com/user/OSAEDay2008!

 

Science Educators' Day 2007

 

 

 

Summary: Science Educators' Day (EDAY) 2007 is a annual event held in conjunction with the Frontiers in Optics Conference/ Annual OSA Meeting. This year, Stanford Student OSA/SPIE, Berkeley Student OSA/SPIE, OSA and the OSA Foundation coordinated the event for local pre-college (middle and high school) teachers. For the first time, 8 universities (Stanford, UC Berkeley, Caltech, UC Davis, UC Irvine, UC Santa Cruz, San Jose State, and University of Rochester) had hands-on optics demonstrations as part of EDAY!

Attendees of EDAY were given teacher handbooks filled with lesson plans, instructions for how to recreate many of the demonstrations on a budget, and more.

 


Photos: Click here to see photos of EDAY 2007
Feedback: Did you attend the event?Email us your suggestions and feedback!
Additional resources:

EDAY 2007 was recently featured in Optics and Photonics News: Download it here!

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