Links to some recent public lectures for K-12 students
Acknowledgement: many
pictures and animations in these lectures were downloaded from hundreds of
educational websites and public web pages of research groups, government agencies
and national laboratories. Most of these websites contain statement that their
content may be used strictly for educational purposes.
External animations
and movies will not work in the files below. However, I will be glad to give a
fully animated lecture at your school on any topic related to astronomy,
physics, and technology.
2005 World
Year of Physics:
Lectures at
TAMU during the Mathematics Awareness Month
(High school level)
Modern
technology (high school level):
Physics
in the Information Age (lecture for Davidson Young Scholars 3/28/09)
Astronomy:
Adventures in the Solar System (elementary school)
The Earth, the Moon and beyond (middle school)
Lives
and Deaths of Stars (middle school)
From
Earth to Pluto and Back (Expanding your Horizons Workshop at TAMU 11/1/06)
Introduction to Astronomy (high school)
A Plunge Into a Black Hole
(Saturday Morning Physics lecture at TAMU 3/3/07)
My
presentations for the Society of Physics Students:
Milankovitch theory of
climate variations