Teacher Education Homing In on Content
National Project Also Tied To Student Achievement
Just upstairs from an exhibit on African culture at the American Museum of Natural History, Robert V. Steiner sits in front of his laptop computer and clicks on an “interactive animation” that illustrates the concept of frames of reference.
On the screen, a glowing basketball bounces up and down against a black background. After watching the direction the ball is moving, the user is asked to determine whether the basketball player is standing still or walking east or west. The same questions are asked about the viewer.
The task, part of the museum’s virtual Seminars on Science for teachers, is meant to help educators better understand Albert Einstein’s special theory of relativity. The graduate-level online courses, covering subjects from ocean systems to spiders, feature essays and videos of scientists...
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