>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 19:13:29 EDT >Subject: Science Trip 2002 Lee marek > >This is the first info on our 2002 trip. > > >HISTORY OF SCIENCE TRIP TO EUROPE - 2002. >ADVANCE NOTICE!!!! > >Science History Tours will be visiting France in 2002, so polish up your >vocabulary and come and join us! Say "Musee des Arts et Metiers" three times >before breakfast and develop a taste for moules marinieres! > >This custom-designed two week trip will begin in Paris sometime during the >second half of June 2002. Our accommodations there will be in the Latin >Quarter, on the left bank of the Seine, in a comfortable two or three star >hotel right in the center of everything. We will visit many sites of >interest in the history of science, including the Institut Pasteur, the >Curie Museum, and the above mentioned Musee des Arts et Metiers, which >contains a wealth of objects of great importance, including Lavoisier's >laboratory equipment and the design model of the Statue of Liberty made by >Bartholdi prior to his construction of "our" Statue. > >As well as visiting Paris, we shall be taking in other places of scientific >interest. These may be in France, perhaps even in the wine-growing areas, >but there is a strong possibility that we may venture as far as Florence, >Italy - at this point it is not yet decided. Keep in touch and we will let >you know! > >The cost of the trip is not yet determined, but as a guideline, this year's >(2001) trip to Ireland cost $2400 per person double occupancy. This DOES NOT >include transatlantic airfare. > >Science History Tours is a non-profit organization set up to provide >education in the history of science for teachers and other interested >persons. Non-scientist traveling companions will find much to interest them. > >Graduate credit of 3 semester hours will be available for a small extra >charge, and CPDUs will be available for teachers. > >See the following for a web presentation on our first trip done by one of the >tour members and another web page by Lee on the second trip: >http://www.ncusd203.org/north/depts/science/chem/marek/ >http://www.leyhs.w-cook.k12.il.us/Depart/science/zygas/Scitour.htm > >To be put on the mailing list for the 2002 tour, contact: >Yvonne Twomey, 841 Kinston Court, Naperville, IL 60540 >Tel:630-961-9811 >e-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] >or Lee Marek, Tel: 630-420-7516 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Diana Dummitt College of Education 1310 S. Sixth Street Champaign, IL 61820 Phone: 217-244-0173 Fax: 217-244-5437 -- This is the ISTA-talk mailing list. To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For more information: <http://www.ista-il.org/ista-talk.asp> To search the archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/ista-talk@lists.csi.cps.k12.il.us/>
