Physics Demonstrations with a Biological Flavor
This session will focus on physics demonstrations that apply physics concepts or techniques to biology or medicine, at the level of introductory or intermediate college level physics. New and/or improved versions of demos are welcomed. If possible, bring the demonstration with you to present along with your poster.

Committee on Educational Technologies

Best Practices for Teaching with Technology
Technology gives physics students new ways to get data, analyze it, and communicate their results; it helps teachers present concepts and perform demonstrations; and it spawns unprecedented logistical nightmares. What does technology make possible? How can it work well in a real classroom? We seek presentations describing new insights into how to use technology effectively to promote student learning.

Clickers in the Classroom (?)
There are many different ways physics instructors are implementing classroom response systems aka 'clickers'. We want to hear your story - has it led to measurable increases in student or faculty engagement or learning, institutional impact outside physics, or have you moved beyond clickers? High school uses of clickers also welcomed.

Committee on International Physics Education

PER around the world
(Committee on Research in Physics Education and Committee on International Education)
This is an invited and contributed session designed for reports from groups around the world working on Physics Education Research. We are interested on research approaches, perspectives and results in different countries; successes and challenges of this area of research around the world; and the effect of the structure of different school systems on research.

Teaching Physics Around the World
This session is designed for reports on those who teach physics in different countries. We are interested on new designs, implementations and innovative educative evaluations that may have been implemented.

Committee on Laboratories

Incorporating Writing in the Laboratory
Writing in physics can take many forms from formal laboratory reports to short answers to specific questions. This session will focus on the different methods of assessing student understanding through writing assignments and how writing can be more effectively incorporated into a physics curriculum.

The Future of Upper Division Lab Experience
Physics education research (PER) has substantially improved student learning from the intro course labs, but has had little impact on upper division laboratory experiences (UDLE). This session seeks reports of efforts to incorporate PER methods or findings to improve or evaluate UDLE. Reports of studies into student investigative prowess or students? Attitudes concerning the nature of science are especially welcome.

Committee on Physics in High Schools

Curriculum Design, Improvement and Implementation: Reports By CASTLE Teachers
This is a session designed to solicit input from teachers that have used CASTLE in their classrooms and how this curriculum helps students understand the fundamentals of electricity.

State of Physics Teaching in the United States: A High School Perspective
This session will examine the status of High School Physics Teaching. This session will include summaries from those involved with increasing thenumber of physics teachers produced, better equipping those teachers, assisting beginning and crossover physics teachers, and educational reforms at the university level.

Alternative and Formative Assessment in High School Physics
Assessing student understanding can be done in many ways. In this session we are looking for teachers to share ways in which they assess student learning using formative and alternative assessments. Project based work, performance assessments, and good "formative" assessment questions are a few examples of the types of assessments that can help teachers impact student learning.

Committee on Physics in Two-Year Colleges

Favorite Activities/Lessons in the TYC Physics Classroom
Poster Session

Physics of our hobbies
As physics teachers, we have a passion for physics and teaching. Many of us have other passions in the form of hobbies. We often look at our hobbies through the lens of a physicists, that is to say we analytically explore them in a manner that the general population wouldn't. This session will explore the physics of our hobbies.

Innovations in TYC Curriculum
We invite contributed papers on innovations in introductory physics education at two-year colleges. Share your experiences with developing or adapting pedagogical innovation, unique extracurricular activities, collaborations with high schools or four-year colleges, or any other aspect of the educational experience of your students.

Committee on Physics in Undergraduate Education

Teaching and Learning Upper-Level Electricity and Magnetism
The Committee on Physics in Undergraduate Education welcomes contributed posters that describe advances in teaching and learning upper-level electromagnetism.

Scientific Communication and Writing
(Committee on Science Education for the Public)
The Committee on Physics in Undergraduate Education welcomes contributed talks about scientific communication and writing as implemented in the undergraduate curriculum.

Undergraduate Student Research (Poster)
Share the results of your physics research or outreach---whether in particles or pedagogy, whether at a formal Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program or at the back corner table in the labroom, or even at the mall. Undergraduate mentors are also invited to share their experiences in involving undergraduates in research and outreach in this poster session.

Undergraduate Student Research
Undergraduates are asked to share their research or outreach experiences in this oral session. Whether your research and/or outreach efforts are in low-temperature physics or are just especially cool, share what you know with other physicists, undergraduates and their mentors.

Committee on Science Education for the Public

Hollywood and Science Literacy
This session explores the effect of Hollywood's blockbusters and TV series on the public's science literacy and attitudes towards education and science policy. It also investigates the influence of Hollywood's biased dramatization of `true stories' on critical thinking and the social dangers resulting from popular pseudo-documentaries which trivialize quantum mechanics and promote it as an explanation of New Age Theories.

Energy and the Environment
Abstracts are requested for poster papers on environmental impact of energy use and production, alternative energy, and consequences of current energy practices. After the invited talks, each poster presenter will have two minutes to introduce their paper. The remainder of the session will be devoted to poster presentations. These posters will also be presented in a later general poster session.

Committee on Space Science and Astronomy

Innovations in Teaching Astronomy
We seek contributed papers that describe research-based and/or innovative techniques and strategies for teaching astronomy at any level. In addition to contributed talks, we encourage poster submissions under this same session title. Help us get the word out about new astronomy teaching ideas!

Seeing the Universe without Our Eyes
Astronomy has traditionally been dominated by observations of electromagnetic radiation emitted by distant sources. However, neutrino and cosmic ray observations, along with gravitational wave searches, are now contributing valuable information to the astronomical body of data. We invite contributions that highlight alternative ways to studying the Cosmos and possible techniques for introducing students to these observations.

400 Years since Galileo
(Committee on History & Philosophy of Physics)
Contributed posters only related to the topic, 400 years of the Telescope since Galileo, and/or planned projects for the International Year of Astronomy.

Committee on Teacher Preparation

How do Master Teachers Help Prepare Teachers of Physics?
The use of K-12 teachers as change agents has been incorporated into teacher preparation programs over the past decade. While master teachers may work as temporary instructors, it is rare that they are sought out specifically for their K-12 expertise. We seek contributions from individuals who have had this experience or who have employed such a person at their institution.

Physics Teacher Preparation Around the US
For this session, we invite posters describing the work of various institutions in preparing physics teachers. We especially invite members of the Physics Teacher Education Coalition (PTEC) to submit posters.