1. Some Public Astronomy in China MSU’s GK-12 Project: Expedition 2008 To Beijing and Xi’an

2. Goals Connections to university researchers Connections to school administrators Connections to public schools Sightseeing

3. People in the group 6 university faculty 1 school district superintendant 3 middle school teachers 6 GK-12 Fellows (graduate students) 1 spouse

4. Research Connections Beijing Jiatong Technical University Physics Colloquium, The Active Sun (MLW)

5. Physics Demo Equipment Students in introductory physics try ~100 demos each semester.

6. Optics Demos

7. To “see” waves in a guitar’s strings

8. Moment of Inertia

9. The red tubes climb the steps

10. Magic Bell

11. Beijing Ancient Observatory

12. Beijing city wall was built in the 1400’s against the Mongols In 1442 the Ming and Qing dynasties began to put astronomical instruments on the wall In 1600’s and 1700’s robust instruments

13. Equatorial armilla and sextant

20. APOD picture

24. Ancient earthquake direction indicator

27. Schools: Mr. Bernstein teaches 8 th graders a human number line

28. Mary Lou teaches astronomical numbers

29. Natural Selection game

30. Jigsaw in shop class

31. Principal accepts MSU gifts

32. Middle school science teachers

34. T Square

37. Great Wall from the airplane

38. Climbing the Wall

40. Yes, it really is steep

41. Drum tower

42. Terracotta Warriors, Xian

43. Chariot wheel impression

45. Warrior Brian

46. Xian Wall at night

47. Xian smog

48. Chinese food is great!

49. The Olympics is coming

50. Street vendor

51. Summer Palace

53. Parking at the university

54. Double sided quilt