Join us the first weekend in November at UC Berkeley for a day and a half of physics education. Friday evening, November 4th Social and Lecture Demo Show 5:30 No-Host Dinner at Chianlai Thai Cuisine, 2505 Hearst St. 6:30 Welcome Gathering and Social 7:30 Lecture Demo Sho Saturday, November 5 Program 8:00 Registration, coffee, donuts 9:00 Welcome 9:15 Show and Tell 10:15 Break 10:30 “Physics for Future Presidents — A new approach for the non-science student.” Invited speaker: Richard Muller, Professor of Physics, U.C. Berkeley, Faculty Senior Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 11:30 Group photo 11:45 Lunch 12:45 Business…
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We are pleased to announce that the invited speaker for our Fall 2011 Conference will be UC Berkeley’s own Richard Muller. Muller is a professor of the popular “Physics for Future Presidents” class at UC Berkeley and author of a popular book of the same name. Muller is also a Faculty Senior Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and associated with the Institute for Nuclear and Particle Astrophysics. Read more about Muller’s career, interests and most recent book, “The Instant Physicist,” on his website. Save the Date for the UC Berkeley Physics Department Demo Show Friday Nov. 4th and the…
An amazing opportunity for Educators from our friends at the Exploratorium: Dear Educator, Your colleagues at the Exploratorium invite you to the first-ever Exploratorium Educator Social on Saturday, September 17, 6 to 9 p.m. This free, evening event is your chance to enjoy the museum after hours with your colleagues and Exploratorium educators. Featuring: An exclusive presentation of the world-renowned Iron Science Teacher competition. Cheer on the competitors in this zany science cook-off where teachers compete before a live audience for the sought-after title of Iron Science Teacher. Free evening hours access to the museum. Play with all the exhibits…
The Physics Teacher Education Coalition (PTEC) has a great new map of professional development opportunities across the US. Use the map to find professional development opportunities for physics and astronomy inservice and preservice teachers: http://www.ptec.org/pd/
Notes from the Spring Conference on April 23rd, 2011 are posted with links that are currently available. If you need anything corrected or would like to add anything to a post, please email Bree at Secretary@NCNAAPT.org. If you were at the conference and would like to print out a certificate for your Professional Development records, you can download it here as a Document or a pdf. A note from our Program Chair, Paul Robinson, about our meeting: “AAPT’ers, What a great meeting! About 75 physics teachers–one of our largest turnouts in years–came to hear and see Adam Weiner’s great talk…