Commercial Workshops

• PASCO Scientific

  • • What’s New in PASCO Capstone Software?

    • CW05
    • Mon 07/22, 1:30PM - 2:30PM
    
    
    • by Dan Burns
    • Type: Commercial Workshop
    • PASCO Capstone has evolved! Join us in this workshop for an exploration of the revolutionary new features in PASCO Capstone software and how they meet the needs of your physics labs. All workshop participants will receive a free site-licensed version of PASCO Capstone software.

• 4th Law Labs

  • • Sector Vector: A Gamified Lab Experience

    • CW02
    • Mon 07/22, 11:30AM - 12:30PM
    
    

    • by Derek Cascio, Franz Rueckert

    • Type: Commercial Workshop
    • Vector arithmetic is an integral part of a STEM education, but it’s rarely the most exciting. With Sector Vector™ we present a new game-based laboratory designed to better engage students. The game delivers the lesson of vector math within a competitive board game. Teams pilot opposing ships as they battle it out in a space arena. In order to win the game, players must calculate their trajectories, track opponent’s moves, and consider every angle. In this workshop, educators and students will come together to experience Sector Vector™, engage with its multiple game modes, and explore its utility as an educational lab kit. Participants will have a chance to play the game, interact with the designers, and learn about its implementation in introductory physics courses.

• Carolina Biological Supply Company

  • • Teaching Online Lab Science Courses: Challenges and Solutions

    • CW07
    • Tue 07/23, 12:00PM - 1:00PM
    
    

    • by Shannon McGurk, Samta Nema

    • Type: Commercial Workshop
    • Science education has been challenged by the demands and rapid growth of online education. One challenge is how to run lab sections of science courses online. Basic science can be taught online when accompanied by well-designed investigations that can be completed in the student’s home. This session will include the experience of actively taking part in hands-on lab investigations developed for online science courses. These investigations have been designed for the off-campus setting while maintaining the college-level rigor.

• Expert TA

  • • Expert TA: Physics Video Series, Improved Online Homework, and a Powerful Set of Academic Integrity Tools

    • CW01
    • Mon 07/22, 12:00PM - 1:00PM
    
    
    • by Jeremy Morton
    • Type: Commercial Workshop
    • We all want the same thing. We want well-crafted materials students can learn from, engaging exercises that help them master the concepts, and we want them doing the work themselves rather than looking up answers online. Expert TA was founded as an online homework company, and for the past seven years has been trusted and used departmentally at hundreds of major universities. Expert TA has now developed learning resources such as a physics video series comprehensive enough to be used as lecture replacements for the flipped-classroom model. To supplement our own learning materials, Expert TA works with University and Institutional partners like OpenStax to develop a diverse collection of custom educational resources that can be leveraged directly from within the Expert TA system. After students review these learning resources, they gain ownership of concepts by working problems themselves. Our independent library is designed to reinforce the problem-solving process. It includes an abundance of multi-step questions that involve symbolic answers, as well as engaging question types like interactive Free Body Diagrams. Based on a six-year data-mining initiative, students receive specific and meaningful feedback for incorrect answers as they work. We understand that no matter how great your educational exercises are, they aren’t meaningful if students are cheating. Because of this, we have made academic integrity a core consideration for all of the tools we develop. Join us for lunch to learn more.

• Macmillan Learning

  • • Set Your Physics Lab Free

    • CW03
    • Mon 07/22, 11:30AM - 12:30PM
    
    

    • by Scott Guile, Lori Stover

    • Type: Commercial Workshop
    • iOLab is a revolutionary hardware/software device capable of performing virtually any algebra- or calculus-based lab in both Physics 1 and 2. Macmillan will provide you with the opportunity to see iOLab in a hands-on environment. iOLab encourages both preparation and creativity allowing both students and you to do more with your lab time. This session will consist of a brief overview of the device from Mats Selen followed by five stations where you will participate in various experiments using the iOLab device. These stations will include labs on 1) Moment of inertia 2) Period of a pendulum 3) Magnetism from electric current 4) Speed of sound 5) Electrocardiogram You will work along with the lab either on your computer or one of the computers provided by Macmillan. Participants who are interested in further exploring using iOLab in their own lab would be able to take a sample device at the end of the session.

• PASCO Scientific

  • • What’s New from PASCO Scientific?

    • CW06
    • Mon 07/22, 10:00AM - 11:00AM
    
    
    • by Dan Burns
    • Type: Commercial Workshop
    • Join us for a look at the very latest from PASCO, including brand-new accessories for PASCO’s revolutionary Wireless Smart Cart, exciting new tools for teaching optics and circuits, and the newest additions to PASCO Capstone software. At the end of the workshop we will be giving away some of this exciting new equipment.

  • • Mechanics Demonstrations with PASCO’s Wireless Smart Cart and New Accessories

    • CW04
    • Mon 07/22, 12:00PM - 1:00PM
    
    
    • by Dan Burns
    • Type: Commercial Workshop
    • In this workshop you’ll see new ways of performing classic mechanics demonstrations with PASCO’s Wireless Smart Cart and new Smart Cart accessories. At the end of the workshop we will give away a Smart Cart with a Smart Cart accessory to two participants.

• Pearson

  • • Pearson: College Physics: Explore and Apply 2nd Edition: Help Students Learn Physics by Doing Physics

    • CW08
    • Tue 07/23, 12:00PM - 1:00PM
    
    
    • by Eugenia Etkina
    • Type: Commercial Workshop
    • The lead author of College Physics: Explore and Apply, Eugenia Etkina, will discuss how she employs an active learning approach with her students and how the changes in the second edition of College Physics address the needs of the changing world. She will show how the written text, Active Learning Guide, and Mastering Physics can engage students in practicing science while learning physics. A myriad of new experiments and innovative problems will motivate your students to learn physics and help them succeed on revised assessments - such as AP exams and the MCAT. Come and learn about the exciting developments in the whole learning system and receive a signed book by the authors!

• Vernier Software & Technology

  • • Introducing Pivot Interactives from Vernier

    • CW09
    • Tue 07/23, 12:00PM - 1:00PM
    
    

    • by Fran Poodry, David Vernier

    • Type: Commercial Workshop
    • Pivot Interactives is a customizable online-video environment that is a superb complement to hands-on experiments with Vernier sensors. Students are quickly engaged by these high-production-quality videos of hard-to-implement phenomena, which are a powerful supplement to hands-on experimentation. Explore the possibilities with us!

  • • Vernier Solutions for Physics and Chromebooks

    • CW10
    • Tue 07/23, 1:00PM - 2:00PM
    
    

    • by Fran Poodry, David Vernier

    • Type: Commercial Workshop
    • Bring your Chromebook (or use one of ours) and learn how easy it is to connect sensors and collect and analyze data. Test drive the Go Direct Sensor Cart, or see how the Go Direct Photogate can measure a directional velocity. Explore the free and improved Graphical Analysis 4 app for data collection and analysis.