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Our current trip on Sound is designed for third and fourth graders and their core standards in science and immigration as well as state history. Through hands-on activities and presentations, they learn about David Sarnoff’s journey to America, sound waves and effects as used on radio, and data gathering for analysis of the changing ways we have designed and used radios, TVs, and computers to communicate over the past 100 years. Dutch Neck Elementary School of West Windsor under principal Scott Feder has made this program an annual event for third-grade classes! Thanks to a generous grant from the IEEE's PACE program, the Library is creating two new field trips for middle-school students on radio and binary computation, which will be available in 2009. Computers ‘n’ Calculations This program accommodates 5th or 6th grade cumulative requirements of the science CCCS, thanks to the fundamentals that we teach. Your students will be introduced to base-2, or binary, counting and become a digital computer to demonstrate concepts of input, output, process, and feedback. In addition, we will look at the processes of research, invention, development, and social acceptance based on the historic computer artifacts and examples in our museum. This includes an RCA 1802 CMOS microprocessor that was designed and made at RCA’s Somerville Solid-State Division. The CMOS approach to integrated circuits and processors is now used for virtually all computer chips. Vision, Video, ‘n’ Invention This program accommodates 5th or 6th grade cumulative requirements of the science CCCS. Your students will learn and experience the scientific basis of television techniques for capturing and displaying a series of live (or recorded) images in real-time. These include scanning, persistence of vision, and additive and subtractive color. Your students also engage with the social, economic, political, inventive, and scientific factors that go into any technological system. This includes a “tour” of David Sarnoff’s roles as visionary, leader of an innovative company and its laboratory staffs, and arguably an “inventor.” We also conduct an exercise in the museum in data gathering that will help students draw some conclusions about the collaborative nature of inventing and innovating. All trips run for two hours. The Library can accommodate up to 60 students in two classes in one program. The fee is $5 per student; there is no charge for teachers or their assistants. Please contact Alex Magoun by email or phone at 609-734-2636 to learn more or set up a date. |
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