2023 Summer Meeting Workshops
AAPT is offering a number of workshops in association with the upcoming 2023 AAPT Summer Meeting. These workshops will take place on July 15-16. This is a great opportunity to gather with your colleagues and learn some new teaching techniques, while engaging in thoughtful discussion. Be sure and register early, as these workshops can fill-up quickly.
Location: Safe Credit Union Convention Center and Sheraton Grand Sacramento.
Cost: All half-day workshops (four hours) will cost $75 for members and $100 for non-members. All full-day workshops (eight hours) will cost $125 for members and $150 for non-members. However, workshop leaders can add an extra cost to the administrative fee to cover the cost of workshop materials.
There is an $85 fee to register for a workshop if you are not registering for the 2023 AAPT Summer Meeting.
Laptops: We encourage everyone to bring their own laptops to the workshops.
Continuing Education Units (CEU): Earn CEU hours for attending one of the AAPT workshops. Earn 0.40 hours for a 1/2 day workshop. Any workshop under 4 hours does not qualify for CEU hours.
Saturday, July 15
Supporting Students' Understanding of Work and Energy through Careful Use of Language
Energy and systems are fundamental, cross-cutting science concepts, and physics is the place to help students develop a deeper conceptual understanding. However, students hear what we say, not what we mean! Trying to simplify our discussions of work and energy (particularly potential energy) can generate increased confusion. We will look at a few examples of how common wording can generate incorrect models in energy and in related concepts some problems where incorrect models have surfaced how a change in wording can help our students develop a single coherent conceptual model for energy problems that significantly impacts their ability to use more robust problem-solving approaches and to describe and model physical situations.
Date: July 15
Time: 8:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Organizers: Gay Stewart, Tiffany Taylor
Cost: $75 Member/$100 Non-member
PIRA Lecture Demonstrations I & II Condensed
During this ½ day workshop, we will introduce you to the Physics Instructional Resource Association (PIRA) and the PIRA 200. Almost every demonstration one can think of has a catalog number within the Demonstration Classification System (DCS); we will introduce you to this system and the comprehensive
bibliography that details journal articles and demonstration manuals for construction and use in the classroom. The PIRA 200 are the specific 200 most important and necessary demonstrations needed to teach an introductory physics course. We will also show a subset of approximately 50 demonstrations explaining use, construction, acquisition of materials, and answer any questions in this highly interactive and dynamic environment. Ideas for
organizing and building your demonstration collection will be presented. We especially invite high school physics teachers and faculty members teaching introductory physics to attend. NOTE that this is a paperless workshop. All information and materials will be distributed on a USB thumb drive (if requested) or other method. A computer, tablet, or other device capable of viewing and/or recording the workshop will be needed.
Date: July 15
Time: 8:00 AM to Noon
Organizer: Dale Stille and Sam Sampere
Cost: $75 Member/$100 Non-member
Exploring Physics through the Lens of Systems
In physics, we often just focus on the forces or motion of one object that we treat as a dot. But real objects are more complicated, and every object can be thought of as part of a large system. Learning to think in terms of multiple systems can help students see problems from multiple perspectives or at multiple scales, allowing them to find new insights or simplify their work. In this workshop, we will explore the concept of systems and system models (one of the NGSS crosscutting concepts) by seeing how small changes or additions to units commonly found in introductory (including AP) physics courses (forces, momentum, energy) can help students think in terms of systems. We will explore this idea through labs, problems, and discussions. Thinking in terms of systems will even allow us to naturally develop the idea of center of mass. Although we hope that this workshop will be interesting to a wide audience, our target audience is high school teachers.
Date: July 15
Time: 8:00 AM to Noon
Organizers: Michael Lerner, Kelly O'Shea
Cost: $75 Member/$100 Non-member
Astronomy Data, Image Analysis, and Research Using Web-based JS9
How can we provide an authentic research experience to students who want to find out what science is REALLY about? We couple JS9, a fun to use, web-based image display environment, with archival satellite data to allow students to perform astronomical analysis remotely using their browser. Energy spectra, light curves, periodic phenomena, and much more can be explored, using data from thousands of deep sky objects, spanning the gamut of observed energies, from infra-red emission to gamma rays. Since this system is platform independent, it is especially useful in the classroom, as well as in distance learning environments. Classroom ready activities and js9 user guides are available. Students explore false color images, the chemistry and physics of supernova, and merging galaxies and more and develop their own research projects. Participants will be refunded for the cost of this workshop.
Date: July 15
Time: 8:00 AM to Noon
Organizer: Pamela Perry
Cost: $75 Member/$100 Non-member
Highlights from 20+ years of the PTSOS Workshop Program for New Physics Teachers
The PTSOS program has been an integral part of the NCNAAPT section for over 20 years. Started as a workshop at the section meetings, it has grown to a workshop program held on three Saturdays during the school year. This workshop will feature many of the favorite demos, activities, and techniques from the PTSOS workshops. Past, present, and future? PTSOS presenters will share their expertise and the fun of teaching physics. We also welcome the contributions from the participants as we discuss how to teach physics. Participants will leave with some of the equipment used in the workshop, free of charge. The workshop is targeted at high school teachers. However, the feedback from college and middle school participants over the years indicates it will be rewarding for all that can attend. Participants who complete this workshop will be reimbursed for their registration fee thanks to the Scott Chan Memorial Fund.
Date: July 15
Time: 8:00 AM to Noon
Organizer: Dan Burns
Cost: $75 Member/$100 Non-member
Strengthening Reasoning in AP Physics (and Beyond) with Multiple Representations
Over the past several years, new resources have been developed to support instructors of AP physics courses, both in terms of incorporating new tools into their teaching and in terms of preparing their students for the styles of questions asked on AP exams. This workshop will first give an overview of the general structure of the AP courses and exams. One of the emphases of the course and exam is on reasoning with multiple representations (words, diagrams, equations, graphs, etc.). Participants will work through and discuss a variety of classroom exercises utilizing a variety of representations. While these curricular tools will be presented in the context of AP courses, they are impactful throughout physics teaching.
Date: July 15
Time: 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Organizers: Kathleen Harper, Jeff Funkhouser, Rebecca Howell, Amy Johnson, John Pinizzotto, Jesse Miner
Cost: $75 Member/$100 Non-member
Fun, Engaging, Effective, Research-Validated Lab Activities and Demos for Introductory University, College and High School Physics (including Virtual Learning Options)
Participants in this workshop will have hands-on experience with research-validated active learning activities for the introductory laboratory—including RealTime Physics (RTP) labs using computer-based tools and video analysis—that have been used effectively in university, college and high school physics courses. They will also experience Interactive Lecture Demonstrations (ILDs)—a strategy for making lectures more active learning environments. These active learning approaches are fun, engaging and validated by physics education research (PER). Research results demonstrating the effectiveness of RTP and ILDs will be presented. Emphasis will be on activities in mechanics, electricity and magnetism and optics. Distance learning options for lab and lecture will also be included. The following will be distributed: Modules from the Third Edition of RTP, the ILD book and free access to virtual materials for lab and lecture. Please bring your laptop.
Date: July 15
Time: 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Organizer: David Sokoloff
Cost: $95 Member/$120 Non-member (this price includes a $20 workshop leader budget to cover the cost of supplies).
3D Printed Interferometers
In this workshop we will present the culmination of a multi-semester service learning project during which we designed and field-tested table top interferometers for classroom instruction. Our interferometers utilize a steel plate, to which the base for each of the optical components are magnetically held in place, allowing students to independently assemble the apparatus and thus learn about the correct placement and function of each component in the optical path. The unique aspect of our design is that the base for the optical components can be 3D printed, allowing anyone with access to a suitable printer to replicate the design. The lenses, beam splitter and mirrors are all commercially available. The interferometer design provides an excellent model for the operation of LIGO and other interferometer applications, and the theory behind the research method. We will demonstrate the use of an inexpensive hand-held oscilloscope, with which your students will be able to validate the theory and sensitivity relative to this methodology. All relevant 3D files and a complete list of other materials and sources will be provided, as well as troubleshooting tips useful for making and using these devices in your own classrooms.
Date: July 15
Time: 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Organizers: David Sederberg, Chen-Lung Hung
Cost: $105 Member/$130 (this price includes a $30 workshop leader budget to cover the cost of supplies).
Optics from Aristotle to Newton
Studying how European and Islamic scholars developed modern geometric optics over a period of nearly two thousand years is a useful way to help students develop a better understanding of the history and nature of science. In this workshop I will share simple hands-on activities, selected historical texts, whole classroom presentations, and supporting curricular materials that I use with my conceptual physics students to help them learn basic physics principles, explore the history of science, and develop scientific argumentation skills. We will in particular highlight the intellectual foundations of science laid down by Aristotle, the empirical development of optical theory by the medieval Arab scientist Ibn al-Haytham, and the clash between Isaac Newton and Robert Hooke at the dawn of modern physics emerged that prefigured the future development of the wave-particle theory of light. These activities and readings could be used with students at a variety of levels.
Date: July 15
Time: 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Organizer: Scott Bonham
Cost: $90 Member/$115 Non-member (the price includes a $15 fee to cover the cost of supplies for the workshop)
Tools for using Smartphones in the Astronomy Classroom
This workshop will motivate and demonstrate efforts to utilize student smartphones in the college introductory astronomy classroom. These devices are extremely prevalent in today’s society and our students have a very strong devotion to them. Smartphones offer a unique opportunity to forge connections between students and science content. Participants will be exposed to an online HTML5 ranking and sorting task editor and examples created in it. The necessary steps to create tasks will be illustrated and then participants will be asked to create their own tasks online and save them locally. We will then describe the desirable characteristics of HTML5 simulations targeted at smartphones and examples illustrating these characteristics. Participants will experience a smartphone simulation as a student and another as an instructor, formulating a plan for guiding their students in its usage. Special emphasis will be placed on simulations useful for the upcoming widely observable solar eclipses in 2023 and 2024 as well as recently developed HR diagram simulations. We will conclude with a discussion of current thinking regarding “best practices” for smartphone usage in the classroom, covering what is known and brainstorming on what is unknown. It is expected that participants will have a smartphone in hand that they will be putting to work accessing astronomy content through QR codes. It would be optimal if they also had a laptop for ranking and sorting task creation. Participants will be reimbursed $35 after completion of the workshop.
Date: July 15
Time: 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Organizer: Kevin Lee
Cost: $75 Member/$100 Non-member
MARVLS - Manipulable Augmented Reality Visualizations to Learn Spatially
A goal of this workshop is to introduce you to MARVLS. Our augmented reality App contains over 60 augmented reality models of physics concepts. Attendees are invited to load our App available on the App Store or the Google Play Store to their iPhone or Android phone. Using a cube as the target, attendees will view the augmented reality models of 3D and abstract concepts in electrostatics, magnetism, circuits, electromagnetism, and optics. In this workshop we will provide you with curricular materials to use the MARVLS for classroom demonstrations and as classroom or homework activities. You'll receive an AR cube and cube templates to share with your students. Finally, we'll step through the process of creating an augmented reality model in Unity.
Date: July 15
Time: 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Organizer: Michele McColgan
Cost: $110 Member/$135 for Non-members (the price includes a $35 fee to cover the cost of supplies for the workshop)
Sunday, July 16
Learn Physics while Practicing Science: Introduction to ISLE
Participants* will learn how to modify introductory physics courses at any level to help students develop a good conceptual foundation, apply this knowledge in problem solving, and engage them in science practices. The framework for these modifications is the Investigative Science Learning Environment (ISLE) approach. We provide tested curriculum materials including: (a) The second edition of College Physics Textbook by Etkina, Planinsic and Van Heuvelen, the Physics Active Learning Guide and the Instructor Guide; (b) a website with over 200 videotaped experiments and questions for use in the classroom, laboratories, and homework; (c) a set of innovative labs in which students design their own experiments, and (d) newly developed curriculum materials that implement the ISLE approach in both online and in-person settings. During the workshop the participants will learn how to use the materials in college and high school physics courses to help their students learn physics by practicing it. We will focus on the connections of our materials with the NGSS and revised AP curriculum, specifically on the interplay of science practices and crosscutting concepts. Please bring your own laptop to the workshop if you own one. If you do not own a computer, you will be paired with somebody who does.
Date: July 16
Time: 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Organizers: David Brookes, Yuehai Yang, Yuhfen Lin, Joshua Rutberg
Cost: $135 Member/$160 Non-member (this price included a $10 workshop leader budget to cover the cost of supplies).
Maximizing Learning and Engagement with Demos
Attendees will learn about the Demonstration Framework and how to apply it to their demonstration development process. Attendees will start the session deciding with their own topic or concept they want to develop into a demonstration, and over the course of the workshop will go through the five (5) steps of the Demonstration Framework and finish with a fleshed-out draft for their demonstration.
Date: July 16
Time: 8:00 AM to Noon
Organizer: Patrick Morgan
Cost: $85 Member/$110 Non-member (this price includes a $10 workshop leader budget to cover the cost of supplies).
Coding Integration and Data Science Integration in High School Physics and Physical Science
Ever wondered how to integrate a little bit of coding or data science into a high school physics or physical science class without overwhelming your students or taking up lots of class time? This hands-on workshop will provide an overview of simple, conceptually-motivated “STEMcoding” exercises where students construct PhET-like games like asteroids and angry birds using an in-browser editor that works great on chromebooks or whatever devices you have. We will also provide a tutorial of the STEMcoding Object Tracker which is a browser-based program that can track the motion of brightly colored objects against a solid colored background. Students can analyze the tracking data in Excel or Google sheets to extract the velocity and acceleration as a hands-on introduction to data science. These activities are part of a much wider curriculum that is highlighted on the STEMcoding YouTube channel (http://youtube.com/c/STEMcoding). AIP Grant Funds will reduce the price of this workshop. Participants will be reimbursed $50 post-workshop.
Date: July 16
Time: 8:00 AM to Noon
Organizers: Chris Orban, Jimmy Newland
Cost: $75 Member/$100 Non-member
Biomechanics Introductory Lab Activities
Get hand-on experience with video analysis, force plates and goniometers for introductory biomechanics activities that students can do on their own bodies. Students can learn all basic mechanics within the context of biomechanics or just explore some or one. Whole body dynamics and limb motion and muscle forces can be examined separately or together. Learn tips on how to best acquire and analyze human movement data, which can be messier, with non-constant acceleration, and more complex than typical lab data, but more meaningful for students. Setting up appropriate comparisons, students can frame their own questions that their human movement analysis can address. Recognition of limitations on data and models used to analyze the data have real-life significance. Participants can try out provided scenarios or design their own. Best to come with your own laptop, installed with either Pasco Capstone or Vernier Graphical Analysis Pro software (both available as free trials)
Date: July 16
Time: 8:00 AM to Noon
Organizer: Nancy Beverly
Cost: $80 Member/$105 Non-member (this price includes a $5 workshop leader budget to cover the cost of supplies).
Creating Curricular Materials to Accompany Physics Simulations
The goal of this workshop is, as a group, to create curricular materials (e.g., recitation activities, class worksheets, or simulation-based labs) that are based on this set of 200+ physics simulations that are aimed at introductory physics at the college level, as well as high school physics. https://physics.bu.edu/~duffy/sims.html There are already some existing curricular materials, created by our Boston University group as well as by others, so we'll look at what already exists, and then take some time to build, individually or in small groups, more materials that we can share and make use of in our own classes.
Date: July 16
Time: 8:00 AM to Noon
Organizers: Manher Jariwala, Emily Allen
Cost: $75 Member/$100 Non-member
Developing the Next Generation of Physics Assessments
Want to write assessments that will give you more evidence about what your students are actually able to do with their physics knowledge? If so, then this is the workshop for you. Participants will learn how to use the Three-Dimensional Learning Assessment Protocol (3D-LAP; a research-based protocol) to develop in-class, homework, and exam problems that engage students in both the process and content of physics. This instrument was developed to help assessment authors at all levels generate questions that include scientific practices, crosscutting concepts, and disciplinary core ideas, the three dimensions used to develop the Next Generation Science Standards. Join us to learn how to create the next generation of physics assessments.
Date: July 16
Time: 8:00 AM to Noon
Organizer: James Laverty
Cost: $75 Member/$100 Non-member
Interactive Video-Enhanced Tutorials for Promoting Problem Solving
This workshop is for those interested in using or developing their own web-based problem-solving tutorials. Participants will learn about our 30 freely available Interactive Video-Enhanced Tutorials (IVETs), where each focuses on an important problem-solving approach (e.g., energy conservation), covering most chapters taught within a two-semester introductory physics course. IVETs include videos of a narrator (instructor) interspersed with multiple-choice questions, with feedback provided for correct and incorrect answers. The questions and feedback are designed to carefully step students through an expert-like problem-solving process, while emphasizing the reasoning behind each step, providing students with personalized learning. Workshop participants will work through an IVET, learn best practices for integrating IVETs into their courses, and receive an overview of the research findings that demonstrate their effectiveness. Participants will also learn how to create their own IVETs, including how to choose appropriate problems, write scripts with suitable multiple-choice questions and supportive feedback, and use our Vignette Studio II software to assemble the IVETs. All of our IVETs and the VS II software are freely available at compadre.org/IVET. Participants are asked to bring a laptop to the workshop. Supported by NSF DUE-1821391 and DUE-1821396.
Date: July 16
Time: 8:00 AM to Noon
Organizers: Kathleen Koenig, Alexandru Maries and Robert Teese
Cost: $75 Member/$100 Non-member
AP Physics Course Revisions for Fall 2024
This workshop will introduce the revised AP Physics curricula to teachers. The goal of this workshop is to familiarize teachers with the new curricula and science practices.
Session will begin with a brief introduction, providing context for the new curriculum and its goals. This will be followed by a deep dive into the key features and major differences between the new curriculum and its predecessor, with a focus on science practices. of the content changes for all four AP Physics courses, followed by a review of the new science practices. Attendees will be encouraged to participate in group discussions and activities. A significant amount of time will be devoted to developing skills in adapting and implementing the new curriculum within participants' classrooms. The session will conclude with an opportunity to review sample questions tied to each science practice in a case study. The revised AP Physics exams will be reviewed and strategies to prepare students will be discussed and modeled.
Date: July 16
Time: 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Organizers: Amy Johnson, John Pinizzotto, Jesse Miner
Cost: $75 Member/$100 Non-member
Intermediate and Advanced Labs
This workshop is appropriate for college and university instructional laboratory developers. At each of five stations, presenters will demonstrate an approach to an intermediate or advanced laboratory exercise. Each presenter will show and discuss the apparatus and techniques used. Attendees will cycle through the stations and have an opportunity to use each apparatus. Documentation will be provided for each experiment, with sample data, equipment lists, and construction or purchase information.
Date: July 16
Time: 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Organizer: Jeremiah Williams
Cost: $95 Member/$120 Non-member (this price includes a $20 workshop leader budget to cover the cost of supplies).
LHC Physics in the Classroom
Students who complete an introductory physics course may be under the impression that physics somehow “stopped” in the late 19th or early 20th century. Of course this idea could not be further from the truth, as physicists today continue to work on addressing an ever-growing list of unsolved questions: Where has all the antimatter gone? What is dark matter? What is dark energy? (What questions have we not thought of yet?) Physicists from all over the world work to address these and many other questions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, on the border of Switzerland and France. This workshop will focus on how teachers can tap into the excitement of LHC physics to both motivate students and provide a contemporary context for them to engage with topics and practices covered in introductory physics courses, including (but not limited to) conservation laws, data collection, organization, and analysis, and making claims based on evidence. Participants in this workshop will alternate between “student mode” and “teacher mode”, will analyze authentic LHC data, and will get a chance to work through some activities from QuarkNet&#’;s Scientific reasoning and decision-making abilities are highly sought outcomes of modern education. We have developed and evaluated a complete inquiry-based lab curriculum that explicitly promotes these abilities by engaging students in activities that include designing and conducting controlled experiments, making appropriate decisions, conducting data analysis, and interpreting and synthesizing results to construct meaningful evidence-based claims. The curriculum aligns with the AAPT Lab Guidelines and cultivates an inclusive culture to support a diverse population. During the workshop, participants will work through several lab activities to learn about the underlying curricular framework, which involves operationally defined sub-skills: including abilities for controlling variables in multi-variable contexts, data analytics, and causal reasoning. Participants will learn how assessments can be used to measure important skills-based outcomes, and our own results will be shared. Participants will be provided access to all lab materials (both in-person and online versions) and assessments, as well as learn how to modify their existing in-person or online labs, if preferred.
Date: July 16
Time: 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Organizers: Shane Wood
Cost: $75 Member/$100 Non-member
Novel Observations in Mixed Reality (Virtual Reality in the Physics Lab)
Participants in this session will learn about incorporating virtual reality (VR) technology into the physics laboratory. This application of VR is based on the Investigative Science Learning Environment (ISLE), and focuses specifically on creating opportunities for students to test and generate new hypotheses associated with particle interactions. Participants will engage in activities the way students do, starting with a testing experiment of Coulomb’s Law and moving into hypothesis-generating experiments with exotic matter that obeys known laws of physics, plus a few more. These activities facilitate students’ engagement in the process of mathematical modeling of additional laws the particles obey in the VR space. Participants will learn to leverage VR technology to provide opportunities for students to be immersed in a complete cycle of quantitative hypothesis generation, testing, and revision. VR is used in this context for its immersive qualities and its appeal to students’ familiarity with game play, specifically targeting the learning outcomes identified by the AAPT Lab Guidelines and the Science and Engineering Practices of the Next Generation Science Standards. It is important to bring a laptop to the workshop.
Date: July 16
Time: 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Organizers: Jared Canright, Suzanne White Brahmia
Cost: $75 Member/$100 Non-member
PICUP: Integrating Computation into Introductory Physics at TYCs
In this workshop, we will show you some ways in which computation can be integrated into your introductory courses. The PICUP partnership has developed a variety of computational activities for introductory physics, and we will show you how you can take these PICUP materials and adapt them to fit your needs. PLEASE BRING A LAPTOP COMPUTER. In this workshop, we will focus on computational activities using spreadsheets and web-based “Trinkets” so you do not need to have any specialized software installed. This workshop is supported by OPTYCs, The Organization for Physics at Two-Year Colleges (NSF-DUE-2212807).
Date: July 16
Time: 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Organizers: Marie Lopez del Puerto, Larry Engelhardt
Cost: $75 Member/$100 Non-member
Professional Development for Emerging Education Researchers (PEER)
PEER is designed for emerging education researchers interested in expanding theoretical or methodological expertise. Through peer and near-peer exchange, this PEER workshop involves hands-on activities to increase participants' capacity for Discipline-based Education Research. Topics include research design, choosing appropriate theoretical frameworks, and matching one's research questions to accessible data. A hallmark of PEER workshops is their responsiveness to participant interests, and activities center around advancing each individual's specific research project.
Date: July 16
Time: 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Organizers: Scott Franklin, Mary Bridget Kustusch
Cost: $75 Member/$100 Non-member
Introductory Labs to Promote Scientific Reasoning
Scientific reasoning and decision-making abilities are highly sought outcomes of modern education. We have developed and evaluated a complete inquiry-based lab curriculum that explicitly promotes these abilities by engaging students in activities that include designing and conducting controlled experiments, making appropriate decisions, conducting data analysis, and interpreting and synthesizing results to construct meaningful evidence-based claims. The curriculum aligns with the AAPT Lab Guidelines and cultivates an inclusive culture to support a diverse population. During the workshop, participants will work through several lab activities to learn about the underlying curricular framework, which involves operationally defined sub-skills: including abilities for controlling variables in multi-variable contexts, data analytics, and causal reasoning. Participants will learn how assessments can be used to measure important skills-based outcomes, and our own results will be shared. Participants will be provided access to all lab materials (both in-person and online versions) and assessments, as well as learn how to modify their existing in-person or online labs, if preferred.
Date: July 16
Time: 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Organizers: Kathleen Koening, Krista Wood, Lei Bao, Raeghan Graessle
Cost: $75 Member/$100 Non-member
Let's Talk about Equity: The Underrepresentation Curriculum
The Underrepresentation Curriculum is a free, open, modular, teacher-created resource that supports high school and college science instructors in empowering students to examine issues of equity, identity, and justice in society and in STEM. This workshop will introduce the curriculum by engaging participants themselves in the learning activities (e.g., discussing the role of objectivity and subjectivity in science and analyzing data about disparities in representations of certain groups of people). The workshop will familiarize participants with the support materials available and make space for exploration. Finally, participants will have the opportunity to discuss how the curriculum can be implemented in their own classrooms, and collaborate with other instructors to create viable actions beyond the workshop.
Date: July 16
Time: 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Organizers: Abigail Daane, Elissa Levy
Cost: $50Member/$75 Non-member
Monday, July 17
Active Learning Strategies from the Biomedically Relevant Introductory Physics (BMP) Curricula
This workshop will share the on-going IUSE-funded development/design/assessment of a new type of active-learning introductory physics curriculum – one directed for pre-health students, integrated with multiple, appropriately-placed videos by biomedical professionals and geared toward a study of the relevance of biomedical applications of physics. Curriculum is designed to fill two main needs: 1) provide students with an introductory biomedically related curriculum that stresses the importance of physics as a basic science relevant to health and medicine, and 2) provide faculty unfamiliar with biomedically related interdisciplinary content with a coherent active-learning physics curriculum that can be implemented in multiple educational environments. To research transferability, implementation is being conducted in introductory physics classrooms at both a small, liberal arts university and a large public university and is being assessed for student content learning and attitudes toward learning physics. All developed curricula will be contributed to the Living Physics Portal so that it is free, editable and adaptable to fit multiple instructors’ needs. Workshop participants will experience the biomedically active learning curriculum in small groups to investigate ways of adapting it for use in their pre-health introductory physics courses. Group discussions will focus on pedagogy, content, assessment and implementation ideas. This work is supported by the grants DUE- 1934038 and DUE- 1933984 from the National Science Foundation.
The goals of this workshop are to:
1. Share project goals designed to address faculty and student needs in providing free, editable, biomedically relevant, active learning curriculum for pre-health students and the faculty teaching this population.
2. Interact in small groups as “students” to experience biomedically relevant grant-developed curriculum: Active-Learning Text, Learning Activities, Biomedical Expert Videos, Assessment Questions.
3. Discuss pedagogical application and curricular content
4. Share ideas on adapting curriculum to address student and faculty needs.
5. Explore various forms of curriculum implementation to fit multiple educational environments.
Date: July 17
Time: 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Organizers: Nancy Donaldson, Ralf Widenhorn, Mayuri Gilhooly
Cost: $50 Member/$75 Non-member
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