The American Association of Physics Teachers, Northern California/Nevada Section
Further updates and links to come… If you have any corrections please let the secretary know.
Tom Woosnam , Crystal Springs Uplands School
Tom discussed the Perimeter Institute; more information is available here: Perimeter Institute Catalogue (1)
Don Rathjen, Exploratorium
If you attended our conference at Foothill College as your first Nothern Cal/Nevada section conference, please complete the following survey:
Join us at Foothill College in Los Altos Hills, CA (just 16 miles NW of San Jose, 40 miles south of San Francisco) for the spring conference of the Northern California/Nevada Section of the American Association of Physics Teachers. Starting with a social and physics show, and observatory tour Friday evening, followed by a full day of physics education speakers and workshops on Saturday.
The program for our spring 2013 conference is now available in PDF format (and also in the mail). You can download it here. We will be posting the agenda as a web post later this week, so keep your eyes peeled.
The second draft of the Next Generation Science Standards have come and gone (comment period was in January 2013). The January 2013 draft version has been removed from the official website, but you can still find it here.
