Here’s a short summary of presentations at the March 28th Spring 2009 meeting’s Show and Tell. Photos will be linked from here shortly. Chuck Hunt, American River College Intro to conservation laws demo. Five M&Ms in a small brown bag. How many times did the red one hit the green one? How many M&Ms are in the bag? Checked it by pulling them out. He pulls out six. How come? Shows the empty bag and places six in the bag. Shakes them up. Hides at the back of the room, then is seen chewing. How many in the bag? Counts…
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The program for our Spring 2009 meeting/gathering is now available online. NCNAAPT Spring 2009 meeting/gathering Saturday March 28th, with a Friday evening social the day before. Everyone is invited, and first-time attendees are free. See the program for complete details.
Friday, March 20, 2009, 11:00 a.m. Nobel Laureate Carl Wieman Oak West, 2nd floor of Tresidder Union, Stanford University Refreshments served at 10:45. Open to public. The Physics department will host a special lecture on March 20, 2009 by Nobel Laureate Carl Wieman, Director of the Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative at the University of British Columbia. Science Education in the 21st Century: Using the methods of science to teach science Guided by experimental tests of theory and practice, science has advanced rapidly in the past 500 years. Guided primarily by tradition and dogma, science education meanwhile has remained largely…
ComPADRE is part of the National Digital Library concentrating on physics and physics teaching. Check it out. Make a bookmark. Tell your friends! http://compadre.org
If you teach undergraduates, consider the NSF-sponsored Chautauqua course from David Sokoloff and his colleagues. It’s called “Using Research-Based Curricula and Tools to Promote Active Learning in Introductory Courses.” Whew. Learn more at http://uoregon.edu/~sokoloff/chaut1.htm.