Testimonials
Good
suggestions of teaching techniques I can use with my kids.
Best workshop I have been to! Great mix of content and
pedagogical discussion.
Dr. Larry was a dynamic speaker.
Awesome all the way around.
-- Participant
comments from the
2011 Mississippi Space Grant Workshops at Rainwater Observatory
I
attended one of Larry's presentations at a GSTA regional conference. He
showed me how to relate some of the more
perplexing concepts of astronomy in ways my students easily grasped. Had
I not been able to use Larry's experience
to inform my teaching I would have wasted valuable time looking for the
solutions he so clearly provided.
Larry
Krumenaker is an incredible resource. He provides
everything one would want from an
in-service workshop: depth of
experience
in his field, engaging as a presenter, flexible for and responsive to
his audience.
I
highly recommend a "Larry" workshop for anyone interested in an
efficient way to increase the content and pedagogical depth in the
astronomy classroom. —Kevin
McReynolds, high school
science teacher, Winder, GA
Dr.
Krumenaker helped me to
learn new
information and to change some misconceptions that I had about topics
relating to astronomy! His knowledge
about
astronomy and ideas about how to teach it make him an incredibly
valuable resource. I would recommend
Dr.
Krumenaker and his services to any teacher who teaches astronomy at any
level. — Lindsay
Phillips, Fourth
Grade Teacher, DeKalb County, Atlanta, GA
Dr.
Larry Krumenaker’s extensive background experience and
expertise
in the science of astronomy, physical sciences, and science education
was the backbone of our collaborative work with teachers, students and
administrators at Taliaferro County K-12 school as part of a DOE
Improving Teacher Quality Grant. —
Deborah J. Tippins, Ph.D., Professor of Science Education, University
of Georgia
Some Past Workshops and Events
Georgia
Science Teachers Assn Annual Conferences, Athens
- Eye
Spy--More to
Spectroscopy than Gas Tubes
- The
Nature of Science
Through the Use of a Ping Pong Ball as Venus
- The
Status and Makeup of
Georgia High School Astronomy
- How to Create A High
School Astronomy Course
Taliaferro
County Schools, Georgia
- Locating Stars and
Constellations
DeKalb
County GA 4th Grade Teachers
- Star Patterns and
When You
Can See Them
- Moon
Phases
Georgia
Science Teachers Assn - Savannah, GA
- Let's
Bomb the Moon!
- Walking
Earth, Finding Mars
- Astronomy, Middle
and High School, GPS and AYP
Korean
Association of Science Teachers
- Let's Bomb the Moon!
Moon crater
classification and organizer activity.
Gyeongi
Province Earth Science Teachers Assn
- Let's Bomb the Moon!
Moon crater
classification and organizer activity.
Queen's
University, Ontario
- Master classes on
misconceptions and modeling them into inquiry lessons
- Moon crater
classification and organizer activity.
Rainwater
Observatory, French
Camp, Mississippi state astronomy teachers workshops
- Friday evening - star
patterns--making them, seeing them
- Saturday
all day
session
-- Some pedagogical background; Moon phases and the Sun; Let's Bomb the
Moon; Misconceptions Turned Into Inquiry;
A Human Solar System
explores Kepler and conjunctions; a Tour of Astronomy in Schools Around
the World
Ring of Fire in the Valley of Fire Tour and Workshops, Las Vegas and surrounding areas, NV
- Observations and training sessions for the annular eclipse of the Sun - Use
of Vernier sensors, what to observe during an eclipse; a planetarium
show. Observed and photographed the eclipse with a variety of
instrucments, monitored temperature, sky light and color during the
eclipse.
Louisiana Arts and Sciences Museum, Baton Rouge, LA annual teachers workshop
- Morning sessions - Moon rotation and phase
misconception busting; Modeling the different causes of the seasons;
Orbits of the Planets and how to find them in the sky.
- Afternoon sessions - Introduction to the Sky; Three Basic Pieces of Data; Atomic and Lighting spectra and light pollution
Florida AAPT Section meeting, Santa Fe College, Gainesville, FL
- Lights Fantastique and The Atomic Hotel - Continuous
(thermal) and Absorption/Emission spectra (atomic) and what they tell
us: the shift in color peak with temperature, the human eye color
response curve, spectra of elements in the Sun, how electrons move
between orbital levels and create spectra, grading the college's outdoor
lighting with spectra.
Louisiana Arts and Sciences Museum, Baton Rouge, LA annual teachers workshop
- Morning sessions - Moon rotation and phase
misconception busting; Modeling the different causes of the seasons;
Orbits of the Planets and how to find them in the sky; What to do with a total lunar eclipse.
- Afternoon sessions - The Atomic Hotel and the structure of atoms, the emission and absorption spectra of atoms.
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