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EC.050 Recreate Experiments/ History
Wonder. Question. Explore. Collaborate. Reflect. This hands-on seminar opens space and time to explore your own curiosity. Discover evidences of motion, change, springtime. Collaborate in experimenting with everyday materials, instruments and methods of science and art, from history and indigenous practices. Listen to past voices: Euclid, Galileo, Ibn al-Haytham, da Vinci, Banneker, Dewey, Janaki Ammal, poets, artists and others. Examine injustice. Build a learning community with classmates. Encourage each other’s curiosity. Museum visits and field trips. Past projects include: watching the sky; following shadows; art projects with historical methods; using and making historical instruments; making educational videos; collaborative experiments; presentations; enacting historical and feminist drama; MIT History… What will you notice and question, explore and express? Your own story uncovers insights for educational research.