8 am
Class Starts promptly.
Dr. Hair introduces special relativity, time dilation, the twins paradox and other relativity topics, including possible areas of research.
9 am
Students pick topics to research and explore them in books and on-line.
10:30
Check-in with teacher on research results
11-12
Lunch
12
Dessert and informal discussion with guest speaker, Ms. Walker
12:30
Guest speaker presentation
1 pm
Question and answer session with speaker
1:30
Students organize their research findings
2 pm
Students present what they learned about their topic
3 pm
Students and teachers head home with exciting new knowledge
Einsteinlight
"These multimedia modules give a brief overview of relativity"
http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/einsteinlight/
World Book at NASA
"World Book Encyclopedia and NASA are working together to provide World Book content to NASA Internet visitors."
http://www.nasa.gov/worldbook/index.html
Spacetime Wrinkles
"Part of a Multimedia Online Expo, 'Science for the Millennium,' a product of the Education and Outreach Group at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)."
http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Cyberia/NumRel/NumRelHome.html
HyperPhysics: Relativity
"an exploration environment for concepts in physics which employs concept maps and other linking strategies to facilitate smooth navigation."
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/hframe.html