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  • AAPT Fun/Run Walk

      • AAPT Fun/Run Walk

      • SPEC12
      • Tue 07/28, 6:30AM - 8:00AM

      • Type: Event

  • AAPT Official Tweet-up

      • AAPT Official Tweet-up

      • SPEC17
      • Sun 07/26, 5:00PM - 6:00PM

      • Type: Event

  • AAPT Opening Reception

      • AAPT Opening Reception

      • SPEC06
      • Sun 07/26, 8:00PM - 10:00PM

      • Type: Event

  • Demo Show

      • Demo Show

      • SPEC15
      • Tue 07/28, 8:00PM - 9:00PM

      • Type: Event

  • Early Career Professional Speed Networking Event

      • Early Career Professional Speed Networking Event

      • SPEC10
      • Mon 07/27, 12:00PM - 1:30PM

      • Type: Event

  • First Timer's Meet-up

      • First Timer's Meet-up

      • SPEC18
      • Mon 07/27, 6:15PM - 7:15PM

      • Type: Event

  • First Timers' Breakfast

      • First Timers' Breakfast

      • SPEC07
      • Mon 07/27, 7:00AM - 8:00AM

      • Type: Event

  • Great Book Give-A-Way

      • Great Book Give-A-Way

      • SPEC16
      • Wed 07/29, 3:00PM - 3:30PM

      • Type: Event

  • High School Share-A-Thon

      • High School Share-A-Thon

      • SPEC04
      • Sun 07/26, 6:00PM - 8:00PM

      • Type: Event

  • High School Teachers' Day Luncheon

      • High School Teachers' Day Luncheon

      • SPEC09
      • Mon 07/27, 12:00PM - 1:30PM

      • Type: Event

  • High School Teachers' Resource Booth

      • High School Teachers' Resource Booth

      • HS01
      • Sun 07/26, 8:00PM - 10:00PM

      • Type: Event

      • High School Teachers' Resource Booth

      • HS02
      • Mon 07/27, 10:00AM - 5:00PM

      • Type: Event

      • High School Teachers' Resource Booth

      • HS03
      • Tue 07/28, 10:00AM - 4:00PM

      • Type: Event

  • NASA Goddard Visitor Center

      • NASA Goddard Visitor Center

      • SPEC02
      • Fri 07/24, 1:00PM - 3:00PM

      • Type: Event
      • You will have a guided presentation on Science on a Sphere. This is a mesmerizing visualization system developed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which uses computers and video projectors to display animated data on the outside of a suspended, 6-foot diameter, white sphere. Your guide will discuss a range of topics to include planetary science, earth science, the background on NASA Goddard, as well as the James Webb Space Telescope. Questions are highly encouraged, and the presentation is very visitor-driven. You will also go on a facility tour with stops at the James Webb Space Telescope clean room window, one of the largest clean rooms in the world, and the Testing and Integration facility. This facility contains clean rooms for spacecraft integration and special chambers for environmental testing of spacecraft and components. - Leave campus at 12:30 p.m./Arrive back at 3:30 p.m.

  • National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

      • National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

      • SPEC01
      • Fri 07/24, 10:00AM - 12:00PM

      • Type: Event

  • Night At the Museum - College Park Aviation Museum

      • Night At the Museum - College Park Aviation Museum

      • SPEC14
      • Tue 07/28, 6:30PM - 8:00PM

      • Type: Event

  • PERC Bridging Sesion

      • Labs as a PER Playground for Concept, Critical Thinking, and Epistemology Development, Natasha Holmes, Physics Department, Stanford University

      • PERC02
      • Wed 07/29, 3:00PM - 4:30PM

      • Type: Event
      • Natasha Holmes, Stanford University - While the goals for instructional labs have been highly debated, inquiry- and skills-driven labs can lead to significant gains in students’ scientific and experimentation abilities. In this talk, I will present an example of such a lab pedagogy that uses uncertainty and data analysis skills as a springboard for developing students' epistemologies, experimentation behaviours, and critical thinking abilities. By engaging in structured cycles of comparisons and measurement improvements, students explore the limits of physical models in the real world and engage in the evaluation and refinement of these models. In a controlled research study, students adopted these behaviours and continued to use them even after instruction to do so had been removed. From these and other outcomes, I will argue for labs as a rich PER environment with many open and exciting questions awaiting the skills of the community

  • PERC Bridging Session

      • Challenges and Opportunities for Measuring Student Outcomes of Undergraduate Research, Sandra Laursen, Ethnography & Evaluation Research, University of Colorado Boulder

      • PERC01
      • Wed 07/29, 3:00PM - 4:30PM

      • Type: Event
      • Sandra Laursen, University of Colorado-Boulder - Inherent in the practice of apprentice-model undergraduate research (UR) is a fundamental tension between the educational goals of UR and its basis in faculty scholarship. This tension leads to challenges for faculty in guiding student researchers in their daily work and in positioning their own UR work within institutionally bifurcated domains of teaching and research. It also generates a disconnect when it comes to measuring the outcomes of UR. Traditional outcome measures emphasize students’ career outcomes and research productivity, while education research has documented students’ personal and professional learning from UR, including new skills and understandings of disciplinary inquiry, growth in confidence and responsibility, and scientific identity development. Thus far, self-report measures including surveys and interviews have dominated this young body of research. I will discuss why assessing the outcomes of apprentice-model undergraduate research is inherently difficult, outline the strengths and limitations of the approaches tried to date, and suggest areas for future research

  • PIRA Resource Room

      • PIRA Resource Room

      • PIRA01
      • Sun 07/26, 8:00PM - 10:00PM

      • Type: Event

      • PIRA Resource Room

      • PIRA02
      • Mon 07/27, 10:00AM - 5:00PM

      • Type: Event

      • PIRA Resource Room

      • PIRA03
      • Tue 07/28, 10:00AM - 4:00PM

      • Type: Event

  • Physics Fair Play

      • Physics Fair Play

      • SPEC05
      • Sun 07/26, 6:30PM - 8:00PM

      • Type: Event
      • Physics Fair, is an original science-related musical theater production that is a collaboration between Cornell University and the Kitchen Theatre Company. The play follows Mr. Mundani’s sixth grade class as they turn their humdrum, ordinary middle school upside down by introducing the school’s first ever science fair. After seeing this talented young cast, hearing the catchy songs and watching the astounding physics demonstrations, you may find your life changed too! "Physics Fair” is supported by a grant from the American Physical Society; additional support is provided by CLASSE.

  • Retired Physicists‘ Luncheon

      • Retired Physicists‘ Luncheon

      • SPEC17
      • Tue 07/28, 12:00PM - 1:30PM

      • Type: Event

  • SPS Awards Reception

      • SPS Awards Reception

      • SPEC11
      • Mon 07/27, 6:00PM - 7:30PM

      • Type: Event

  • Spouses Gathering

      • Guest/Spouse Gathering

      • SPEC08
      • Mon 07/27, 9:00AM - 10:00AM

      • Type: Event

  • TYC Resource Room

      • TYC Resource Room

      • TYC01
      • Sun 07/26, 8:00PM - 10:00PM

      • Type: Event

      • TYC Resource Room

      • TYC02
      • Mon 07/27, 10:00AM - 5:00PM

      • Type: Event

      • TYC Resource Room

      • TYC03
      • Tue 07/28, 10:00AM - 4:00PM

      • Type: Event

  • The Physics of Racing

      • The Physics of Racing

      • SPEC03
      • Sat 07/25, 1:00PM - 5:00PM

      • Type: Event
      • Racing is a powerful tool for teaching basic physics. All AAPT participants in this workshop will travel to Blue Crabs Stadium in Waldorf, Maryland to ride in an autocross. Autocross is competitions against the clock where street cars navigate one at a time through a complex cone laid track at speeds as high as 60 mph (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bf0RruCuDa4). It is the perfect environment for gathering data for use in your physics class. Participants will receive a copy of Chuck Edmondson's "Fast Car Physics" from the Johns Hopkins University Press. This will be followed by a classroom session with the author and a discussion of race car driving and track data analysis. There will be free time after class to observe sessions and enjoy a hamburger and hot dog barbecue. No additional charges beyond the workshop registration fee are required for the autocross rides, the book or the meal. Data and a YouTube video link from one of the days runs will be made available to participants.

  • Two-Year College Breakfast

      • Two-Year College Breakfast

      • SPEC13
      • Tue 07/28, 7:30AM - 8:30AM

      • Type: Event