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Sociedad Latina’s summer program participates in college physics
Reposted from BU College of Arts and Sciences Community post: Sociedad Latina Collaboration Brings Middle Schoolers to the Physics Classroom.
Last week Paul Trunfio’s PY106 class paired up with the Sociedad Latina Summer Program. The middle school students from the Boston after-school program attended the physics course as part of an ongoing collaboration in the Network Science for All program (sponsored by the National Science Foundation).
The visit included participating in a lecture along with live demonstrations illustrating the relationship between electricity and magnetism (ionized gas in electric fields, magnetic levitation, electromagnets, and more). Students learned about forces, how electric currents produce magnetic fields, as well as how changing electric and magnetic fields lead to fascinating and unexpected real-world applications.
After participating in the lecture component, the middle school students joined the undergraduate students working together on a short worksheet on forces and Newton’s Laws and then applied this knowledge to forces on charges in electric and magnetic fields.
Finally, during an open lab, middle school students explored experiments centered around: (1) Electricity: electric charges, forces and generators and (2) Magnetism: Faraday’s Law experiment whereby an electric current is formed merely by moving a magnet through a coil of wire.
Visualizing Molecular Networks with Food Coloring
As part of our curriculum and professional development efforts, we couple our NetSci hands-on activities with video-based activity guides.
This activity follows from our networks in biology unit to explore the chemical and physical properties of milk, food coloring and dish soap, that create forces amongst them. Students will explore the following questions:
How does the interaction of molecular bonds form a network?
What does this look like when visualized with food coloring?
Our networks in biology activity demonstration was produced by Michalina Jadick . Our full teacher and student activity lessons can be found in our Development Portal.
Engineering a Functional Pumping Heart Model
As part of our curriculum and professional development efforts, we couple our NetSci hands-on activities with video-based activity guides.
This activity follows from our networks and electric circuits unit by engineering a functional pumping heart model to explore the following questions:
What makes our circulatory system a loop?
Why is it important that the heart pumps blood in one direction?
Our networks in electric circuit guides and applications to the human body were produced by Michalina Jadick and Mable Lin. Our full teacher and student activity lessons can be found in our Development Portal.
Building the Pipeline to Get Black, Hispanic Youth into STEM Careers
Our ongoing collaboration between Sociedad Latina and BU is working to put a new, more diverse face on the STEAM workforce by providing both academic and family support. This work was featured in a BU Today article.
Read the article:
Building the Pipeline to Get Black, Hispanic Youth into STEM Careers, BU Today, Doug Most
The Hub Spotlight Series communicates advances in Data, Network & Systems Science, STEM Education, and Art & Visualization.
Eighth grader Steven Lue got into coding after staff members from Sociedad Latina visited his school, sparking his curiosity. “It fueled my learning,” he says. Photo by Angelica Rodriguez/Sociedad Latina
Electrical Circuits & Human Circulatory System Activities
Yesterday, Sociedad Latina's STEAM Team "Network Science Club" hosted the first activity of a multi-part curriculum on the human body. This series of activities began with the exploration of connections between a simple electrical circuit (battery, wires, and resistor) and the human circulatory system from the point of view of networks.
Networks and Electric Circuits
As part of our curriculum and professional development efforts, we couple our NetSci hands-on activities with video-based activity guides. Our networks in electric circuit guide was produced by Michalina Jadick and Mable Lin. Our full teacher and student activity lessons can be found in our Development Portal.
Bucket Drumming
As part of our curriculum and professional development efforts, we couple our NetSci hands-on activities with video-based activity guides. For Fall 2021, this is our first one, featuring Michalina Jadick. Our full teacher and student activity lessons can be found in our Development Portal.
Developing STEM Career Identity Among Latinx Youth
Members of our project presented at the 2021 Annual Conference of the American Psychological Association.
NetSci4All Advisory Board Meeting
Network Science for All's Summer 2021 external advisory board meeting, hosted June 9, 2021.
NetSciEd 2020 Symposium
We were honored to have presented at the virtual NetSciEd 2020 symposium as a satellite of the annual Network Science international conference.
