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Spring Meeting Update
20 JanSpring 2018 meeting
8 JanSpring New England AAPT Meeting
Location: Nashua Community College
We will solicit contributed papers/posters in three tracks.– Increasing diversity in Physics– General Physics pedagogy contributions: ideas related to effective high school and post-secondary physics teaching– Assessment: how & what do we measure so that we know our teaching is effective. (Atleast at the post-secondary level, assessment pressure is increasing.)
Fall Northeast Regional AAPT Meeting
9 AugSo, New York State section is moving fast to finalize the Regional for September 29/30 at Syracuse University.
Friday, September 29 will include registration from 4 to 6, vendors, posters and cocktail hour 6 to 7, banquet 7 to 8:30 including keynote plenary in person from Dr. Beth Cunningham, Executive Officer of AAPT.
Saturday, September 30 will include contributed talks and invited speakers featuring both AAPT candidates for Vice President, Chandralekha Singh, and Genaro Zavala; and including talks from Joseph Ribaudo (How killer black holes saved astronomy–see article in July 2017 Physics Today), and Ryan Fisher (LIGO). Workshops will include a PTRA workshop from Steve Henning, a new workshop from Shawn Reeves, and a demo workshop.
Syracuse SPS will also host a concurrent Saturday+Sunday Zone Meeting for SPS chapters from all around the Northeast.
Costs should be under $60 for registration, banquet, and Saturday breakfast and lunch inclusive. Registration site details to follow. Submit contributed papers now to Sam Sampere smsamper@syr.edu
HOTEL for Spring meeting
31 JanSpring Meeting 2017
31 JanAAPT–New England Section
Spring Meeting
March 17-18, 2017
Quinsigamond Community College
602 West Boylston ST, Worcester, MA 01606
https://aapt-nes.org/regional-meeting
Theme: AIM Higher – Astronomy, Instrumentation and Making
You are cordially invited to the 2017 Spring Meeting of the AAPT–New England Section, and encouraged to contribute posters, papers and demonstrations related to teaching at the high school and college/university levels.
Register for the meeting: https://aapt-nes.wildapricot.org/event-2332622
There are special registration rates for students and early career high school teachers.
Submit Abstracts Online by March 1, 2017 for Posters, Contributed Talks & Share-a-Demo Contest: https://goo.gl/forms/n5XKtxvpBhEXBJZ42
Contributed Talks & Posters: We invite you (and your students) to contribute 15-minute talks and posters relevant to secondary- and college-level physics instruction in these areas:
- Astronomy: observation & measurements; optics; etc.
- Instrumentation: using or programming instrumentation for instruction/lab experiences
- Making: Have you or your students built a device that you used to explain a concept or experiment with some phenomenon? (3-D printing, etc.)
- Teaching: What new approaches/methods are you trying in your classes?
- Assessment: how do you know that your students are learning?
Share-a-Demo Contest: Do you have an especially effective 5-10 minute demo that you use in your teaching? Enter it in the Share-a-Demo Contest. The winner will be chosen by audience vote. Please note: due to facilities restrictions, we will not be able to host anything pyrotechnic.
Venue: All events will be in the Harrington Learning Center and the QuEST Building on the QCC campus at 602 West Boylston ST, Worcester, MA.
Hotels: We have reserved a block of 20 rooms at the Marriott Courtyard. You must book by 2/17 for the group rate of $189. We are also working on other hotel options. See aapt-nes.org for details.
Parking & Access: Parking will be available in the Faculty and Staff lots. Both buildings are handicap accessible.
Planned Schedule
Friday, March 17, 2017 – Room 109 & Adjacent Foyer, Harrington
4:00 pm Registration
5:00 pm Poster Session, Vendors
6:30 pm Buffet Dinner
7:30 pm Key Note: Dr. Jay Pasachoff, Field Memorial Professor & Director of the Hopkins
Observatory, Williams College
The August 21, 2017, Total Solar Eclipse: Science, Equipment, and Circumstances
9:00 pm Observing with the local Amateur Astronomers (weather permitting).
Saturday, March 18, 2017
7:30 am Continental Breakfast, Registration, Posters & Vendors – Harrington
8:00 am Share-a-Demo Contest – Harrington
9:00 am Coffee Break – Harrington
9:15 am Contributed Talks – QuEST
11:00 am Invited Talks – Harrington
12:30 pm Buffet Lunch. Board Meeting and Brief Section Meeting
Posters, Vendors, Janet Guernsey Award and Share-a-Demo Prizes
1:30-4:30 Workshops in the QuEST Building.
4:30 pm Pick up Professional Development Certificates – Harrington
Workshops
| Teaching with Telescopes A. Schwortz, QCC Do you have a telescope just gathering dust? Are you looking for ways to integrate it into your curriculum? Or do you just want to take some students out at night to look at the stars? This workshop will include hands on time with reflecting and refracting telescopes, examples of class activities, time to brainstorm and lesson plan with colleagues, and resources for maintaining or purchasing telescopes. If you have access to a telescope, you are encouraged to bring it (and any accessories) and will learn to use it or assess the maintenance needs. |
Arduino R. Dorland, St. Joseph’s College Design & build creative circuit projects using Arduino! Unlock the “do-it-yourself” maker potential in your classroom. Participants will build a simple sensor project using an Arduino UNO board that can be used to introduce circuits and E/M topics in any level physics course. The workshop assumes no prior experience with Arduino. You will learn how to setup and connect to a new board, and how to adapt existing code for your project. Materials provided, and registered participants will be able to take their completed project home. Partly funded by a NASA grant. |
Video Analysis S. Henning, PTRA Short videos, often just 20 to 30 frames long, are designed for analysis in a computer, iPad, iPhone, or iPod. Using LoggerPro (or, the free Tracker software) positions of objects in the video frame can be measured. The data can be graphed, analyzed, compared to theoretical models, and even used to display vectors or points superimposed on the original video. Participants will receive hands on experience with video analysis and a copy of Physics with Video Analysis from Vernier, which has a generous site license. AAPT-NES will cover part of the PTRA cost. $20 fee for participants. |
Submit a paper for the Spring Meeting
16 JanYou can submit a paper to the Spring Meeting of AAPT at this link.
https://goo.gl/forms/n5XKtxvpBhEXBJZ42
The Spring meeting will be at Quinsigamond Community College
March 17-18
Details on the meeting will be available here
https://aapt-nes.wildapricot.org/event-2332622
Fall AAPT Meeting at Wesleyan University
5 SepFor the Regional Meeting look at this link:
https://aapt-nes.org/regional-meetings/
Regional Meetings
Upcoming Meetings
Theme: How Physics Teaching Has Changed Since 1950: 66 years after the landmark AAPT National Meeting at Wesleyan University
In 1950, the first AAPT National Meeting was held at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT. Travel down Rt. 66 and meet us on October 21-22, 2016 for the Tri-Regional meeting of the New England, New York and New Jersey Sections of AAPT.
We will look at how we taught Physics, how we teach Physics now, and where we’re headed in the future.
We invite you to contribute talks, workshops and posters related to secondary- and college-level Physics pedagogy:
- The history of Physics education
- Teaching methods:Studio, Flipping, Team-based Learning, Guided and Open Inquiry, Problem-based Learning, Project-based Learning, Modeling Physics, Blended/Online courses, the new AP Physics, etc.
- How does conceptual understanding inform mathematical rigor?
- Experiments in process: What new approaches are you trying in your classes? What are your preliminary results?
- Assessment:How do we know our teaching is effective? What are the best assessment tools?
- And, by the way, how does it all fit with NGSS?
Please submit your abstracts on-line. or cut and paste
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1fg4jmkpJxmZ9cVpRrwEF6VW0RCI3FyQksENZVQzcrp8/viewform
Submit abstracts for the fall Northeast Regional meeting
28 JunTheme: How Physics Teaching Has Changed Since 1950: 66 years after the landmark AAPT National Meeting at Wesleyan University
In 1950, the first AAPT National Meeting was held at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT. Travel down Rt. 66 and meet us on October 21-23, 2016 for the Tri-Regional meeting of the New England, New York and New Jersey Sections of AAPT.
We will look at how we taught Physics, how we teach Physics now, and where we’re headed in the future.
We invite you to contribute talks, workshops and posters related to secondary- and college-level Physics pedagogy:
- The history of Physics education
- Teaching methods:Studio, Flipping, Team-based Learning, Guided and Open Inquiry, Problem-based Learning, Project-based Learning, Modeling Physics, Blended/Online courses, the new AP Physics, etc.
- How does conceptual understanding inform mathematical rigor?
- Experiments in process: What new approaches are you trying in your classes? What are your preliminary results?
- Assessment:How do we know our teaching is effective? What are the best assessment tools?
- And, by the way, how does it all fit with NGSS?
Please submit your abstracts on-line. or cut and paste
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1fg4jmkpJxmZ9cVpRrwEF6VW0RCI3FyQksENZVQzcrp8/viewform
Workshops already tentatively scheduled include:
- Ardwino (3-hour)
- Optics (1.5-hour)
- PTRA Workshop (10/23)
Congrats to this year’s New England Physics Teacher of the year!
14 JunMark Greenman, who is currently the Boston University Physics Department Physics Teacher in Residence is the 2016 Janet Guernsey New England Physics Teacher of the Year!
