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T02:
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Computational Physics Examples to Include in Physics Courses
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Location:
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Cramer Hall 101
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Date:
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Sunday, Jul.18
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Time:
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1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
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Price:
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Member: $41.00
Nonmember: $66.00
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Sponsor:
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Committee on Educational Technologies
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Leader(s):
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Rubin Landau, rubin@science.oregonstate.edu
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Co-Leader(s):
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None
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Description:
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Examples of Computation to Use in Physics Courses
Examples will be give, both in the talk and on a DVD, of computational
physics problems that may be used to enhance existing physics classes.
Although there are applets covering some of the examples, source codes in various languages will be given for all the examples so that students and instructors can extend them and customize them. In all cases, the physics, computational, and mathematical ingredients of the problem will be presented.
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W19:
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What Every Physics Teacher Should Know About Cognitive Science
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Location:
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Cramer Hall 228
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Date:
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Sunday, Jul.18
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Time:
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8:00 a.m. -12:00 p.m.
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Price:
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Member: $35.00
Nonmember: $60.00
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Sponsor:
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Committee on Research in Physics Education
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Co-Sponsor(s):
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Committee on Physics in Pre-High School Education
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Leader(s):
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Chandralekah Singh, clsingh@pitt.edu
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Co-Leader(s):
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None
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Description:
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In the past few decades, cognitive research has made significant progress in understanding how people learn.
The understanding of cognition that has emerged from this research can be particularly
useful for physics instruction. We will discuss and explore, in a language accessible to
everybody, how the main findings of cognitive research can be applied to physics teaching and assessment.
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W20:
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Computer Modeling and The Physics Classroom Web Resources
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Location:
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Cramer Hall 159
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Date:
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Sunday, Jul.18
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Time:
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8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
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Price:
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Member: $55.00
Nonmember: $80.00
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Sponsor:
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Committee on Educational Technologies
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Co-Sponsor(s):
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Committee on Physics in Undergraduate Education
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Leader(s):
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Wolfgang Christian, wochristian@davidson.edu
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Co-Leader(s):
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Bruce Mason
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Description:
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Creating good and thorough web resources that allow teachers to easily incorporate computer-based modeling into their curriculum requires the right tools. The ComPADRE National Science Digital Library (NSDL) provides curriculum material and tools that are easy to use, open, extensible, and free to solve this integration problem. This workshop will show participants how to combine curricular material in The Physics Classroom with simulations in the Open Source Physics Collection to improve the understanding of physics concepts and to make difficult topics more accessible to students. Participants will create personal resource collections that integrate these diverse ComPADRE materials for their students. Afternoon technical and non-technical breakout sessions will allow participants to develop their own simulations and learning resources.
This workshop will benefit anyone teaching introductory physics. Information can be obtained from < http://www.compadre.org/osp/> and .
Partial funding for this work was obtained through NSF grants DUE-0442581 & DUE-0840768
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W21:
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Enhancing Your Course with Activities Arising from Physics Educational Research
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Location:
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Neuberger Hall 237
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Date:
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Sunday, Jul.18
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Time:
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8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
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Price:
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Member: $65.00
Nonmember: $90.00
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Sponsor:
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Committee on Research in Physics Education
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Co-Sponsor(s):
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Committee on Physics in Undergraduate Education
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Leader(s):
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Calvin Kalman, Calvin.Kalman@Concordia.ca
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Co-Leader(s):
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None
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Description:
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Participants take part in five "miniclasses":1. Use of Reflective Writing to engage students before class. 2. Critical Thinking- Feyerabend's view. 3. Use of Collaborative Groups to Promote Critical Thinking. 4. Critique: a writing tool to enhance Critical Thinking Skills. 5. The Course dossier: A supplement to or a replacement for a final essay/examination. This is based upon my book Successful Science and Engineering Teaching in Colleges and Universities. This workshop utilizes research in the classroom that I have been conducting and publishing for many years using qualitative and quantitative methods. Participation in reflective writing as a self-dialogue between the learner's prior knowledge and new concepts in the text was consistently reported in interviews. Comparison of pre- and post-tests indicate that in doing written critiques, students are not only more likely to undergo conceptual change, but also increase their critical thinking skills and thus are led to reevaluate their entire conceptual framework.
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W23:
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Physics by Design
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Location:
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Science Building 2- 161
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Date:
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Sunday, Jul.18
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Time:
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8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
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Price:
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Member: $90.00
Nonmember: $115.00
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Sponsor:
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Committee on Physics in Pre-High School Education
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Co-Sponsor(s):
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Committee on Minorities in Physics
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Leader(s):
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Julia Olsen, jkolsen@u.arizona.edu
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Co-Leader(s):
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None
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Description:
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What is understanding? What is the relationship between knowledge and understanding? What does "teaching for understanding" look like? Why is deeper understanding important in the current educational climate which emphasizes standardized assessments? These and other important questions will be explored as participants design, develop and refine a cohesive unit plan based on the principles found in Understanding by Design (UbD). In the UbD classroom, there are high expectations and incentives for all students while exploration of big ideas and essential questions is differentiated, so students who are able delve more deeply into the subject matter than others. This workshop is appropriate for instructors from pre-high school through college levels. Participants will receive a copy of UbD, 2nd Ed. Note: participants are strongly encouraged to bring their own laptops to the workshop, but a limited number of computers may be available-- contact the organizer (jkolsen@u.arizona.edu) if you will need one.
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W24:
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Teaching Astronomy Effectively with Technology
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Location:
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Neuberger Hall 341
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Date:
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Sunday, Jul.18
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Time:
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8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
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Price:
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Member: $55.00
Nonmember: $80.00
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Sponsor:
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Committee on Space Science and Astronomy
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Leader(s):
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Kevin Lee & Ed Prather , klee6@unl.edu
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Co-Leader(s):
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Edward E. Prather, University of Arizona
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Description:
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Educational research has clearly defined the characteristics of the optimal introductory astronomy classroom -- one where students are actively engaged in the learning process and frequently receiving timely feedback on their learning progress. This CAE/CATS Tier 2 workshop will explore a variety of technologies that enable instructors to engage students and efficiently provide feedback. Instructors will be trained and provided with curriculum materials from multiple NSF grants on computer simulations, computerized databases of Think-Pair-Share questions, and a library of both animated and pencil-paper ranking and sorting tasks. All materials will be disseminated through the web (http://astro.unl.edu) before the workshop and attendees will bring their own laptops with the software already installed.
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W25:
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Teaching Physics for the First Time
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Location:
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Science Building 2- 149
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Date:
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Sunday, Jul.18
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Time:
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8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
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Price:
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Member: $95.00
Nonmember: $120.00
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Sponsor:
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Committee on Physics in High Schools
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Leader(s):
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Donna Messina, winnmmw@aol.com
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Co-Leader(s):
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Jan Mader and Mary Winn
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Description:
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With the push for physics first, many middle school and high school instructors find themselves assigned to teach physical science and physics classes with little or no formal preparation in the content. Teaching Physics for the First Time is designed to provide a supply of lessons based on the learning cycle that are reliable and cost-effective. The labs, demonstrations, and activities emphasize the hands-on approach to learning physics concepts and include teaching strategies and address misconceptions students often have with respect to the concept. The workshop attendees will receive a copy of the book Teaching Physics for the First Time.
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W26:
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Using RTOP to Improve Physics and Physical Science Teaching
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Location:
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Neuberger Hall 307
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Date:
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Sunday, Jul.18
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Time:
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8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
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Price:
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Member: $60.00
Nonmember: $85.00
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Sponsor:
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Committee on Teacher Preparation
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Co-Sponsor(s):
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Committee on Physics in Pre-High School Education
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Leader(s):
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Kathleen Falconer, falconka@buffalostate.edu
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Co-Leader(s):
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Paul Hickman
Dan MacIsaac
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Description:
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The Reformed Teaching Observation Protocol (RTOP) is a 25-item rubric that provides a percentile measure of the degree and type of student-centered, constructivist, inquiry- based engagement in an instructional situation. RTOP scores correlate very highly with student conceptual gains. In this workshop, we will score video vignettes of teaching to learn how to use RTOP for guiding personal reflection and improvement and change of our own teaching; for mentoring peers, novice teachers and student teachers; and to establish a vocabulary for discussing reformed teaching practices. If you wish, you may bring a DVD of your own teaching to score.
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W27:
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Arduino Microcontrollers in the Physics Lab
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Location:
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Science Building 1- 201
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Date:
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Sunday, Jul.18
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Time:
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8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
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Price:
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Member: $110.00
Nonmember: $135.00
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Sponsor:
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Committee on Educational Technologies
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Leader(s):
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Eric Ayers, ayars@mailaps.org
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Co-Leader(s):
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None
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Description:
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The Arduino is an open-source microcontroller system that is relatively easy to use in a broad range of situations. In this workshop we will be building and programming a small self-contained Arduino "datalogger" that can record time-stamped analog data and then report that data to a separate computer for analysis at a later time.
Participants will gain their own datalogger and the software needed to customize and extend its capabilities, as well as all schematics, sources, software, and a basic skill-set for getting started with using Arduino microcontrollers as lab tools.
Participants must bring a laptop. Prior experience in soldering and/or computer programming will be helpful, but is not required.
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W28:
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A New Methodology for Using Clickers in Lecture Classrooms
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Location:
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Science Building 2- 113
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Date:
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Sunday, Jul.18
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Time:
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8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
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Price:
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Member: $40.00
Nonmember: $65.00
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Sponsor:
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Committee on Research in Physics Education
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Co-Sponsor(s):
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Committee on Professional Concerns
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Leader(s):
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Neville Reay, reay@mps.ohio-state.edu
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Co-Leader(s):
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Thomas Carter
Lin Ding
Albert Lee
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Description:
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Workshop participants will experience a new question sequence clicker methodology proven to help students enjoy lectures and experience significant learning gains. Discussion leaders Lin Ding and Bill Reay from The Ohio State University, Tom Carter from The College of DuPage and Albert Lee from California State University, Los Angeles have created, validated and evaluated for learning gains 167 conceptual clicker sequences containing 500 individual questions.
The workshop will start with brief discussions of the new methodology, how sequences were created and validated, results of student surveys and evaluation of learning gains. Participants will have hands-on use of clickers while answering questions and observing presentation techniques. With workshop leaders as a resource, teams of participants will then create and present their own two-question sequences. At the workshop's conclusion, participants will be given CDs containing all 167 sequences, relevant published papers and workshop slides.
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W29:
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Biology Inspired Laboratories for the IPLS Course: Bridging the Gap between the Physical and the Life Sciences
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Location:
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Cramer Hall 103
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Date:
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Sunday, Jul.18
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Time:
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8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
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Price:
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Member: $55.00
Nonmember: $80.00
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Sponsor:
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Committee on Physics in Undergraduate Education
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Leader(s):
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Matt Reeves, reevesme@gwu.edu
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Co-Leader(s):
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Tim McKay
Suzanne Amador Kane
Catherine Crouch
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Description:
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Recent high-level reports such as BIO2010 and the HHMI/AAMC's Scientific Foundations for Future Scientists have emphasized the need for life science undergraduate majors to be taught a much higher level of quantitative reasoning and further for them to make connections between material taught in biology with that taught in physics, chemistry, and mathematics. An important enabling and motivating factor for this is a laboratory experience that explicitly connects physics concepts and reasoning to important problems in the life sciences. In this ½ day workshop, we will make available, for hands-on use, a number of class-tested laboratories. Participants will acquire and analyze data on their own laptops (either mac or windows OS) and by so doing will take away software, their data, and other materials from the workshop. Participants without laptops will be paired with a partner bringing a laptop.
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W30:
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Designing a Diagnostic Learning Environment: A Workshop for Teacher Educators
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Location:
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Neuberger Hall 375
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Date:
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Sunday, Jul.18
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Time:
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8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
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Price:
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Member: $35.00
Nonmember: $60.00
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Sponsor:
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Committee on Teacher Preparation
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Co-Sponsor(s):
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Committee on Research in Physics Education
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Leader(s):
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Stamatis Vokos, seelel@spu.edu
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Co-Leader(s):
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Stamatis Vokos, Hunter Close
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Description:
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All students are capable of constructing scientific understanding. To support a Diagnostic Learning Environment, teachers must establish a classroom culture where initial and evolving student ideas are an essential part of instruction. In a Diagnostic Learning Environment, teachers elicit student ideas, use flexible teaching strategies, and perform ongoing assessments of student learning to guide instructional decisions. In this workshop we will study artifacts of student thinking in order to better understand the experiences, ideas, and intellectual resources from which learners can construct a personally owned scientific model. We will discuss how beliefs about learners and learning influence attitudes toward formative assessment. We will use classroom video to study efforts to informally assess student ideas and examine the efficacy of resulting instructional interventions. In addition, participants will learn about the Diagnoser Project's free tools to help diagnose precollege student thinking and inform instruction. Participants are invited to bring their own laptop.
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W31:
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Energy in the 21st Century
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Location:
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Cramer Hall 203
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Date:
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Sunday, Jul.18
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Time:
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8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
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Price:
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Member: $35.00
Nonmember: $60.00
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Sponsor:
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Committee on Physics in Two-Year Colleges
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Co-Sponsor(s):
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Committee on Science Education for the Public
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Leader(s):
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Pat Keefe, pkeefe@clatsopcc.edu
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Co-Leader(s):
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Greg Mulder
Richard Flarend
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Description:
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We have found that engaging students in predictions of what form and how much energy will be used in the future is a very successful way to generate enthusiasm and further investigation of physics. We have developed three different projects that involve designing energy systems. One model requires students to do a home energy audit. Using the model allows students to adjust their energy use and compare the results. The other two modeling exercises look at past energy consumption patterns and develop a plan for energy usage in the 21st Century. Other considerations such as population, costs and efficiencies are also used to further expand the discussion and decision making that takes place.
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W32:
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LivePhoto Physics: Video-Based Analysis Activities for the Classroom/Homework
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Location:
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Cramer Hall 101
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Date:
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Sunday, Jul.18
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Time:
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8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
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Price:
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Member: $45.00
Nonmember: $70.00
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Sponsor:
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Committee on Physics in High Schools
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Co-Sponsor(s):
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Committee on Educational Technologies
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Leader(s):
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Bob Teese, rbtsps@rit.edu
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Co-Leader(s):
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Patrick J. Cooney, Priscilla W. Laws, Maxine Willis
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Description:
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This workshop is for physics teachers who wish to explore the use of video-based motion analysis in a wide range of applications including the teaching laboratory, projects and homework. Participants will learn how to make digital video clips for analysis, as well as how to use video analysis for homework problems and in the classroom. We will discuss educationally effective uses of video analysis being developed in the LivePhoto Physics project, the Workshop Physics project and in other settings. Evaluation copies of analysis software, selected digital video clips and homework assignments will be provided to the participants for their use after the workshop. The software used in this workshop is available for both Mac and Windows computers. Participants in this workshop may find that some prior, hands-on experience with basic video analysis using software such as Logger Pro or Tracker will be helpful but is not required.
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W33:
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Mining the Data: Writing Better Tests
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Location:
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Neuberger Hall 209
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Date:
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Sunday, Jul.18
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Time:
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8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
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Price:
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Member: $50.00
Nonmember: $75.00
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Sponsor:
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Committee on Physics in High Schools
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Leader(s):
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Nate Unterman, nunterman@glenbrook.k12.il.us
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Co-Leader(s):
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None
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Description:
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This workshop is designed for teachers at all ranges of experience who want to learn how to improve the quality of their multiple-choice, short-answer, and extended-response questions. Teachers explore ways to create well-constructed assessments based on benchmarks, educational research, content limits, various representations, state and national goals, and local expectations. Mechanics of the test, including bias, use of names, page layout and design, use of illustrations, placement of answers, etc., are reviewed in the context of best practice. Teachers will learn techniques of item analysis and how to integrate these results into curricular revisions and evaluating student understanding. Basic educational research techniques with references for more advanced study will be discussed. Bring samples of existing questions, any resources, and texts that may help you revise or create items for tests, and a number 2 pencil.
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W34:
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NTIPERS: Research-Based Reasoning Tasks for Introductory Mechanics
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Location:
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Cramer Hall 201
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Date:
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Sunday, Jul.18
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Time:
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8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
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Price:
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Member: $35.00
Nonmember: $60.00
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Sponsor:
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Committee on Physics in Two-Year Colleges
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Co-Sponsor(s):
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Committee on Research in Physics Education
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Leader(s):
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Maloney, maloney@ipfw.edu
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Co-Leader(s):
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Curtis Hieggelke
Joliet Junior College
Steve Kanim
New Mexico State Univ
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Description:
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A common question instructors wrestle with is: How do I get my students to develop a strong understanding of physics? In this workshop you will explore some new materials designed to get students to think about fundamental concepts in alternative and multiple ways to promote robust learning. Participants will work with a variety of tasks and task formats that require students to think about the basic physics in the domains of kinematics and dynamics, including rotational dynamics, in nonstandard ways. Participants will be given a CD with more than 400 tasks, and other materials.
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W35:
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Playing the Game of Science
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Location:
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Neuberger Hall 241
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Date:
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Sunday, Jul.18
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Time:
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1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
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Price:
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Member: $35.00
Nonmember: $60.00
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Sponsor:
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Committee on History and Philosophy in Physics
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Leader(s):
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David Malone, maloney@ipfw.edu
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Co-Leader(s):
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Mark Masters
Physics Department
IPFW
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Description:
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One dilemma that is experienced in science classes is helping students understand how science works, what makes an activity scientific, and the characteristics of scientific reasoning. In an activity inspired by a quote from The Feynman Lectures on Physics, participants will use a strategy-game based analog of scientific reasoning to examine aspects of the nature of science. Participants will be given the playing pieces, the game board, and the histories of two players' moves while playing the game several times. Through the activity, and by using a variety of games, students can experience important scientific processes. The workshop will explore three different games that feature different aspects of scientific reasoning. We will also discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the activity as well as ideas for additional variations.
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W36:
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Road Show Lecture Demonstrations
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Location:
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Science Building 1- 107
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Date:
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Sunday, Jul.18
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Time:
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8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
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Price:
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Member: $35.00
Nonmember: $60.00
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Sponsor:
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Committee on Apparatus
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Leader(s):
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David Sturm, sturmde@maine.edu
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Co-Leader(s):
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None
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Description:
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How do you organize apparatus for Physics on the Road? Structured like the PIRA Lecture Demonstration workshops, we invite folks who do, have done, and/or want to do physics outreach to join us for a workshop that focuses on top demonstrations for the road. We'll look at a top 50 list. For each, we'll cover design and construction, and using existing demonstrations found in most departments. Workshop leaders will discuss organizing using the PIRA Demonstration Classification Scheme. And of course, we'll network, share, and develop plenty of new ideas for cool road show gear.
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W37:
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Web Tech Tools for Teachers
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Location:
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Cramer Hall 196
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Date:
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Sunday, Jul.18
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Time:
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8:00 a.m.- 12:00 p.m.
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Price:
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Member: $45.00
Nonmember: $70.00
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Sponsor:
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Committee on Physics in High Schools
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Co-Sponsor(s):
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Committee on Educational Technologies
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Leader(s):
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Cathy Ezrailson, cathy.ezrailson@usd.edu
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Co-Leader(s):
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None
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Description:
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Technology takes many forms in today's high schools -- from smart board, to data acquisition devices to digital libraries with web-based lessons, simulations and other interactive resources. As we prepare physics teachers, we need to integrate these web-based teaching resources that were not available even a few years ago. Web 2.0 teaching tools, easily learned, free, and immediately available, could markedly enhance and augment physics learning in novel and unforeseen ways. Using web tech tools such as Google Docs to organize, design, access, and assess lessons seamlessly is integral to teaching in the 21st century classroom. This workshop will give examples of best teaching practices that incorporate these tools for high school and college instruction. Participants are encouraged to bring their own laptops.
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W38:
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Advanced and Intermediate Laboratory Workshop
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Location:
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Science Building 1- 424
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Date:
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Sunday, Jul.18
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Time:
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1:00 p.m - 5:00 p.m.
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Price:
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Member: $130.00
Nonmember: $155.00
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Sponsor:
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Committee on Laboratories
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Co-Sponsor(s):
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Committee on Apparatus
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Leader(s):
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Mary Ann Klassen, Van Bistrow, vanb@uchicago.edu
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Co-Leader(s):
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None
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Description:
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This workshop is appropriate for college and university instructional laboratory developers. At each of six stations, presenters will demonstrate an approach to an intermediate or advanced laboratory exercise. Each presenter will show and discuss the apparatus and techniques used. Attendees will cycle through the stations and have an opportunity to use each apparatus. Documentation will be provided for each experiment, with sample data, equipment lists, and construction or purchase information.
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W39:
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Falsification Labs Workshop
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Location:
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Science Building 2- 113
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Date:
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Sunday, Jul.18
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Time:
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1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
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Price:
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Member: $38.00
Nonmember: $63.00
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Sponsor:
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Committee on Laboratories
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Co-Sponsor(s):
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Committee on Apparatus
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Leader(s):
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John Welch, jowelch@cabrillo.edu
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Co-Leader(s):
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None
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Description:
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Verification labs are a staple in many physics courses, but what about falsification? It is important for students to be able to recognize and test wrong ideas as well as right ones. In this workshop, we will present a number of laboratory exercises based on plausible-but-wrong theories which can be tested in a typical lab period. All of the exercises can be performed with minimal equipment, and are appropriate for high-school or introductory college physics labs. Participants will have an opportunity to try the experiments, experience some of the pitfalls involved, and develop similar experiments of their own.
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W40:
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Modeling Applied to Problem Solving: An Adoptable Pedagogy
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Location:
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Cramer Hall 201
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Date:
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Sunday, Jul.18
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Time:
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1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
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Price:
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Member: $35.00
Nonmember: $60.00
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Sponsor:
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Committee on Physics in Undergraduate Education
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Co-Sponsor(s):
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Committee on Research in Physics Education
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Leader(s):
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David Pritchard, dpritch@mit.edu
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Co-Leader(s):
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Analia Barrantes, Andrew Pawl, Saif Rayyan
aepawl@mit.edu
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Description:
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This workshop will introduce participants to our modeling-based approach to problem solving, a pedagogy that enables students to attain significant expert-like improvement of their problem solving skills as well fostering dramatically more expert-like attitudes towards science, particularly in Problem-Solving Sophistication. Workkshop participants will be introduced to MAPS and its central "System, Interactions, Model" procedure, then will sample and discuss the various instructional materials for in-class. These include: the Model Hierarchy, multi-concept problems, an expert inventory, classification tasks, Mastering Physics problems, and the open source WIKItextBOOK under development (bring your laptop for this). This new pedagogical approach is designed to be integrated into existing courses without dramatic changes to the syllabi, and the workshop goal is to enable participants to introduce it into their courses.
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W41:
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Open-source Tutorials
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Location:
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Cramer Hall 103
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Date:
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Sunday, Jul.18
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Time:
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1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
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Price:
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Member: $42.00
Nonmember: $67.00
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Sponsor:
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Committee on Research in Physics Education
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Co-Sponsor(s):
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Committee on Physics in Undergraduate Education
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Leader(s):
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Rachel Scherr, rescherr@gmail.com
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Co-Leader(s):
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Renee Michelle Goertzen
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Description:
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Instructors inevitably need to adapt even the best reform materials to suit their local circumstances. We offer a package of research-based, open-source, epistemologically-focused tutorials, along with the detailed information instructors need to make effective modifications and provide professional development to teaching assistants. In particular, our tutorials are embedded with comments from the developers, advice from experienced instructors, and video clips of students working on the materials. Participants will take home a DVD that includes tutorials, homework, instructor's guides, pretests, exam questions, solutions, captioned video episodes, and video workshops that integrate tutorials with video episodes. Bring a laptop if it's convenient.
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W42:
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PhET Simulations - Fun Tools to Help Your Students Learn Physics
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Location:
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Neuberger Hall 222
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Date:
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Sunday, Jul.18
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Time:
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1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
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Price:
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Member: $80.00
Nonmember: $105.00
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Sponsor:
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Committee on Research in Physics Education
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Co-Sponsor(s):
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Committee on Educational Technologies
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Leader(s):
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Wendy Adams, katherine.perkins@colorado.edu
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Co-Leader(s):
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Katherine K. Perkins
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Description:
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Simulations are fun and powerful learning tools that can be used in many ways in the classroom. We have found that students engage with simulations in a scientist-like way, asking their own questions and exploring at their own pace. This half day workshop will include a brief presentation about the free interactive simulations from the PhET Project including the research behind their development and a classroom study or two. The bulk of the workshop allows participants to explore the simulations and consider ways to use them in their classroom including lecture demonstrations, in class activities, homework and/or labs. Later in the day participants will pair with a fellow teacher who has similar classroom goals so that the remainder of the time can be spent planning and creating activities around sims for your classroom.
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W43:
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Physics and Performance
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Location:
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Cramer Hall 203
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Date:
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Sunday, Jul.18
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Time:
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1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
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Price:
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Member: $35.00
Nonmember: $60.00
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Sponsor:
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Committee on Apparatus
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Co-Sponsor(s):
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Committee on Science Education for the Public
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Leader(s):
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Stan Micklavzina, stanm@uoregon.edu
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Co-Leader(s):
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None
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Description:
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In this half-day workshop we will work on developing creative methods and ideas on how to present science principles and demonstrations on the stage. Bring your favorite demonstration or presentation (or we can provide one) and we will create a new way to present this to the public. The idea is to establish the performance aspect of public road shows. We will be joined by Performing Arts Prof John Schmor form the University of Oregon who will offer instruction and feed back of how to incorporate performance and entertaining presentation methods into the science being displayed
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W44:
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Physics and Toys II: Energy, Momentum, Electricity and Magnetism
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Location:
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Neuberger Hall 209
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Date:
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Sunday, Jul.18
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Time:
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1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
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Price:
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Member: $45.00
Nonmember: $70.00
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Sponsor:
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Committee on Physics in Pre-High School Education
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Co-Sponsor(s):
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Committee on Science Education for the Public
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Leader(s):
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Beverly Taylor, taylorba@muohio.edu
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Co-Leader(s):
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Raymond Turner
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Description:
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This hands-on workshop is designed for teachers at all levels in search of fun physics demonstrations, lab experiments, and interactive materials through the use of ordinary children's toys. Mover than 50 toys will be demonstrated, and the physical principles related to these toys will be discussed. This workshop will concentrate on toys that illustrate the concepts of kinetic and potential energy, linear and angular momentum, electricity, magnetism, pressure, temperature, and properties of materials. You will have the opportunity to participate in both qualitative and quantitative investigations using toys. The workshop leaders have found that toys can be utilized at all grade levels from kindergarten through college by varying the sophistication of the analysis. These same toys can also be used for informal presentations to public groups of all ages, whether children or adults. Participants will be given a small assortment of toys to help start their own toy collection.
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W45:
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Strategies to Help Women Succeed in Physics-Related Professions
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Location:
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Cramer Hall 225
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Date:
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Sunday, Jul.18
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Time:
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1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
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Price:
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Member: $35.00
Nonmember: $60.00
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Sponsor:
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Committee on Women in Physics
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Leader(s):
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Chandralekha Singh, clsingh+@pitt.edu
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Co-Leader(s):
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None
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Description:
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Women are severely under-represented in physics-related professions. This workshop will explore strategies to help women faculty members in K-12 education, colleges, and universities understand and overcome barriers to their advancement in careers related to physics. A major focus of the workshop will be on strategies for navigating effectively in different situations in order to succeed despite the gender schema, stereotypes, and subtle biases against women physicists. We will also examine case studies and learn effective strategies by role playing.
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