Eisenhower '96 The national trend in physics teaching is toward interactive, how to useinteractive video and collaborative, handson activities in teaching physics. http://physics.unl.edu/~rpeg/eisenhower/eisenhower96.html
Extractions: Information about previous Eisenhower summer institutes for high school physics teachers: Eisenhower '96 Mechanical Universe - High School Adaptation An Institute for Pre-Service Physics Teachers Kearney Public Schools June 2-8, 1996 A-Cooperative Planning B-Demonstrated Need C-Plan of Action D-Applicant's Commitment and Capacity ... H-Summary and Conclusions The Mechanical Universe - High School Adaptation is a new hands-on approach to teaching high school physics using videotapes and curriculum materials that have been shown to be 11% more effective in the retention of physics concepts. This project is supported by the National Diffusion Network of the United States Department of Education. To allow complete modeling of the Piagetian Learning Cycle (exploration, concept invention and application), permission has been received from the University of Northern Iowa that will allow the use of PRISMS laboratory experiments. This Institute will be developed under the collaborative leadership of Professor Robert Fuller, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Roberta Himes Lang, Edgewater High School (Florida), Julie Larson, Kearney High School, and Charles Lang, Omaha Westside High School. This workshop incorporates physics demonstrations and laboratory activities into week-long physics lessons based on the Mechanical Universe - High School Adaptation materials. This project is a completely new institute. It will be constructed, once funding is obtained, by the collaboration of the project staff which includes faculty from UNL, Omaha Westside High School, Edgewater High School of Orlando, FL, and Kearney High School. At this point, the staff share the vision of interactive, thinking and doing physics for every pre-service teacher in Nebraska. In the detailed planning of the Institute, the true collaborative nature of the project will become real.
Teaching Teaching activities in Spring 2004. physics 220 Electronics for Scientists.Teaching activities in Spring 2002. physics 204 Foundations of physics http://www.wooster.edu/physics/garg/teaching.html
Extractions: Skip Navigation You Are Here ENC Home Curriculum Resources Search the Site More Options Don't lose access to ENC's web site! Beginning in August, goENC.com will showcase the best of ENC Online combined with useful new tools to save you time. Take action todaypurchase a school subscription through goENC.com Classroom Calendar Digital Dozen ENC Focus ... Ask ENC Explore online lesson plans, student activities, and teacher learning tools. Search Browse Resource of the Day About Curriculum Resources Read articles about inquiry, equity, and other key topics for educators and parents. Create your learning plan, read the standards, and find tips for getting grants. Series: Teaching Science with TOYS Project.
Extractions: Physics Life is part of the physics.org web site, a search facility that answers your questions about physical science with a list of relevant web sites from its database. The animation begins with a street in which you can explore the buildings, areas and objects that you see. The graphics become animated and make noises when you hover your mouse over them, and you can click to zoom in and enter buildings and places. You can try the playground, where clicking a football activates a pop-up box that tells you about curling a football in flight. Each pop-up box contains general information about the activity, written informally, as well as links for more information from physics.org.
WYP2005 International Projects for the World Year of physics 2005 The deliberationswill focus on changes in the ways of teachinglearning of physics; http://www.wyp2005.org/activities.html
Scientific Activities: Science Teaching Department is composed of groups working in mathematics, physics, The Departmentof Science Teaching and the Davidson Institute have initiated several http://www.weizmann.ac.il/acadaff/Scientific_Activities/current/Science_Teaching
Extractions: Department is composed of groups working in mathematics, physics, chemistry, life sciences, computer science, earth and environmental sciences, and science and technology for all (junior and senior high school). Extensive research and development is carried out in all these areas, with the aim of a) producing high-quality and up-to-date learning, teaching and assessment materials for use throughout the Israeli educational system, and b) providing ongoing professional development of teachers. The learning and teaching materials include textbooks, teacher guides, enrichment materials, innovative uses of modern technologies and development and maintenance of websites for non-frontal teaching. The work is based upon an underlying philosophy that considers curriculum development and implementation, professional development of teachers, research and evaluation as part of an integrated and continuous long-term activity. Our belief in the central role of teachers in improving education has led us to focus our efforts also on National Teacher Centers, which serve as sources of support, information and materials for teachers throughout the country. The Centers, led by our scientists, also prepare and support teachers in leadership roles in their schools and/or districts. In 2003, we expanded our work with teachers to include pre-service education. We established a program for Teacher Licensing (Teudat Horaa) in cooperation with the Feinberg Graduate School and with endorsement of the Ministry of Education. The target population of this program is graduate students and post-doctoral fellows from all the departments at the Weizmann Institute. The main objective of the program is to encourage candidates with a very strong scientific background to become teachers and teacher leaders in junior high and high schools in Israel, as well as in teacher education colleges.
PHY 312 Physics Teaching From The Historical Perspective HandsOn physics activities with Real-Life Applications. Teaching Introductoryphysics A Sourcebook. New York Springer-Verlag. http://www.phy.ilstu.edu/programs/ptefiles/312.html
Extractions: Note: This is a five-week course taken during the same semester as, but prior to, student teaching. WARNING: Associated with this course is one or more NSTA-mandated summative performance assessments linked with Professional Studies' Admission to Student Teaching gateway. Failure to adequately demonstrate the required competencies in a timely fashion will result in the teacher candidate being barred from student teaching. Name: Carl J. Wenning, Coordinator
Extractions: You are here: www.empa.ch Departmen. Materials. BuildingT. Applied P. www.empa.ch Empa in profile Departments and Labs Research programs Publications ... Year of technology Departments and Labs Advanced Materials and Surfaces Materials and Systems for Civil Engineering Mobility and Environment Logistics, Controlling, Marketing ... Board of Directors Materials and Systems for Civil Engineering BuildingTechnologies Concrete / Construction Chemistry Wood Materials and Engineering ... Structural Engineering BuildingTechnologies Applied Physics in Building Energy Systems / Building Equipment Applied Physics in Building Thermal Lab Numerical Methods CFD-Applcations / Energy Fire Lab ... Building damages
Extractions: 2004 RET ... Help Here are some brief descriptions of the activities (both in initiation to research and in curriculum development) undertaken by high-school physics teachers participating in the RET program in the summer of 2003. Kimberly Carlson (Minnetonka High School) and Bonnie Hill (Osseo High School) collaborated with Prof. Heller and others within the Physics Education group in developing a rubric to judge student laboratory reports along the different axes typically used in evaluating technical writing. Using an extensive computerized database of student lab reports, this work was reported at the national meeting of the AAPT in January 2004. Michael Maas (Eden Prairie High School) worked with Prof. T. J. Jones (Astronomy) on the design of a CCD camera-based optical imaging polarimeter for the Mt. Lemmon Observatory 60-inch telescope, first using professional optical design software (Zemax) and later supervising (as well as participating in) the fabrication, assembly and testing of the final product. This experience allowed the development of a teaching unit for high school astronomy using a CCD camera with a small telescope. Michael Nordstrand (Pine City High School), in residence at the Soudan Underground Laboratory in northern Minnesota, worked with Prof. Peterson on the final checkout and repair of electronic systems and diagnostic equipment for the MINOS long-baseline neutrino oscillation search experiment. He also contributed to the laboratorys outreach mission by guiding tours of the facility for the general public, as well as preparing an introductory PowerPoint presentation of particle physics, appropriate for high school students.
Teaching Ideas & Resources - TES - The Times Educational Supplement The TES website offers in depth teaching news, teaching educational resources Has anyone got or seen physics activities for GCSE by Mary Whitehouse? http://www.tes.co.uk/section/staffroom/thread.aspx?story_id=1714935&path=/scienc
Teaching Ideas & Resources - TES - The Times Educational Supplement The TES website offers in depth teaching news, teaching educational I veheard of a book by Mary Whitehouse called physics activities for GCSE and http://www.tes.co.uk/section/staffroom/thread.aspx?story_id=1717518&path=/scienc
ICSU-IAP Members Activities About Science Teaching activities in primary school Secondary and tertiary information relation to the assessment of standards of physics teaching and learning http://www.icsu.org/8_teachscience/icsu-iap/membre.php4?lang=en&choixmembre=35
Particle Physics Education Sites icon Particle physics Education and Information sites Classroom activities.Particle physics activities a set of seven, each with a worksheet and http://particleadventure.org/particleadventure/other/othersites.html
Extractions: top Introduction: The Particle Adventure - an interactive tour of particle physics for everyone: the basics of theory and experiment. Virtual Visitor Center of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. Guided Tour of Fermilab , - A virtual tour of Fermilab with overviews of several aspects of Particle Physics. Probing Particles - a comprehensive and straight-forward introduction to particle physics. Big Bang Science - approaches particle physics starting from the theoretical origin of the universe. Life, the Universe, and the Electron - an interactive exhibition focusing on the electron. History of Neutrinos - everything you ever wanted to know about neutrinos. Hands-On CERN - an introduction to particle physics theory and experiments. The World of Beams Physics 2000 - an interactive journey that touches on quantum physics. A bibliography of Particle Physics Educational Materials - a listing of useful books and articles. Particle Data Group - an international group that summarizes and reviews particle physics.
The Physics Teacher: Learning Cycles For A Large-Enrollment Class This adaptation utilizes the KSU physics activities Center, See footnote 7 a A teaching assistant is always available in the activities center so that http://web.phys.ksu.edu/papers/concepts/LC-TPT.html
Extractions: The Physics Teacher: Learning Cycles for a Large-Enrollment Class Citation: Dean Zollman, "Learning cycles for a large-enrollment class," The Physics Teacher 28, 20-25 (1990). Recent attention to precollege science education has once again emphasized two important conclusions: Children are frequently "turned-off" from science in elementary school and are unlikely to change that attitude in later years, and Elementary school teachers are seldom adequately prepared to teach science. Most physicists will accept these conclusions without documentation. Their reactions are frequently to admonish colleges of education with, "Too many methods courses; not enough hard science." Yet, when we look at the average physics course taken by elementary-education majors and other nonscience majors, we can see our contribution to the problem. Introductory physics courses are generally regarded by students as a collection of facts. While we try to teach reasoning skills and understanding in a survey course, we present such a large quantity of information that most students react by memorizing. They view science as knowledge to be recalled. We should not be surprised, then, that school teachers frequently feel inadequately prepared to teach science. How can they possibly recall all they need to remember to teach physics, chemistry, biology, earth science, and so on? The answer is that they do not need to recall it. Science is not a collection of facts but a way of observing, collecting data, critically thinking, building models, and comparing with nature. Teachers who understand this concept should be much more comfortable with science.
Extractions: January 2000 Forum: January 2000 It is often said that the best researchers make the best teachers. Not so, argues Kenneth Krane, who thinks that if academics improve their teaching skills, their research will benefit as well. For as long as I can remember, the major research universities in the US have repeated the mantra that "good research makes good teaching". When challenged about the need for investment in research personnel or facilities by those who think a university's proper role is to educate undergraduates, university administrators often claim that the institution's best researchers are also its best teachers. They say that researchers at the cutting edge of their disciplines are better able to provide insight and challenges to their students. In effect, the claim is that the research enterprise benefits all undergraduates. Indeed, in my former position as a department chair I often made the same argument to parents of prospective students who were concerned about the benefits of sending their children to a research university, as opposed to a liberal-arts college devoted exclusively to undergraduate education.
(CPEP) Particles It brings particle physics to the classroom with meaningful activities. A WorkShop on Teaching Elementary Particle physics in your High School Classroom http://www.cpepweb.org/particles.html
Extractions: It is available in three sizes. A feature story in Science Magazine, headlined "Move Over Mendeleyev," described the CPEP "chart of the subatomic world" as "the physicist's answer to the chemist's periodic table of the elements." The story discusses injecting "the excitement of the latest physics into classroom teaching." More than 200,000 copies of the chart have been distributed. Book Order Info The Charm of Strange Quarks: Mysteries and Revolutions of Particle Physics. This book brings the excitement and a basic understanding of this fundamental topic to the public and especially to students. It includes very recent developments in particle physics and cosmology. The CD-ROM version of our web feature contains The Particle Adventure and The Quark Adventure (appropriate for science museums, open houses, etc.)
Extractions: II. Objectives The project aimed at reinforcing national capacities to define and implement teacher-training strategies in order to improve the teaching/learning process, in particular focusing on the teaching of science and mathematics. Its main immediate objectives included: the training of trainers and teachers; the design and implementation of applied research; the production of training materials and teaching aids; and the equipment of classrooms. III. Outputs Concerning the training of trainers and the in-service training of teachers, until September 2000 the project supported more than 110 training activities (workshops, training sessions and seminars) for a total of approximately 2,700 participants. In particular, the project supported the following activities: (a) three seminars and twenty-four district-based workshops for science and mathematics teachers (grades 9 and 10);
