In the summer, the course is offered in a three week period, four days a week, five hours per day with 2 hour projects. The modules used in this summer's course were developed during the ACEPT Science/Math Teacher Workshop in May and June 1996. Faculty from several Maricopa County Community Colleges, Navajo Community College, Phoenix USI, and ASU developed science and math modules under the direction of Anton Lawson and Marilyn Carlson, using the Learning Cycle method as a template for developing the modules. Thirteen REU undergraduates from around the country helped in the development of the modules and assisted in their implementation in the Patterns in Nature course. Topics ranged from atomic energy levels to recycling trash in the Valley of the Sun.

The course schedule is as follows:

Day	Date	Topic
1	08 July	Light and Electrons; Sun and Moon Records
2	09 July	Light and Prisms
3	10 July	Exploring Light and Color with a Spectrometer
4	11 July	Atomic Energy Levels; Solar System
5	15 July	How Big is a Googul?
6	16 July	How Little is Small?
7	17 July	Is Water a Pure Material? Why Do Objects Float?
8	18 July	How Do Insects Grow?
9	22 July	Infrared and X-Rays
10	23 July	Heads or Tails? Shards and Anthropology
11	24 July	Fossils and thier Distribution
12	25 July	Trash Talk

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