2025 Winter Meeting Workshops
AAPT is offering many workshops in association with the upcoming 2025 AAPT Winter Meeting. These workshops will take place on January 18. 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: TBD
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.
There is a $90 fee to register for a workshop if you are not registering for the 2025 AAPT Winter 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. Earn 0.80 hours for a full-day workshop. Any workshop under 4 hours does not qualify for CEU hours.
Saturday, January 18
AP Physics Course Revisions for 2025 Exams
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. The 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 the content changes for all four AP Physics courses and the revised 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.
Price: $75 (Member), $100 (Nonmember)
Time: 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Organizer(s): John Pinizzotto, Amy Johnson, Jesse Miner, Holley Mosley
Developing Culture-Based Approaches To Physics Instruction
This workshop is tailored for physics instructors eager to create instructional units that are culturally responsive. We will cover the entire process of developing such units and assessments, from conceptualization to execution. Participants will receive resources to aid in crafting strategies that are culturally relevant to their classrooms. Furthermore, we will collaborate with teacher leaders to develop and pilot trial instructional units tailored to your specific class needs. Join us to enrich your teaching methods with cultural relevance and efficacy.
Price: $75 (Member), $100 (Nonmember)
Time: 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Organizer(s): Clausell Mathis
From Atoms to Quantum Computers: Train the Trainer Workshop
From Atoms to Quantum Computers: Train the Trainer Workshop for High School Teachers: In this workshop, we will present an introduction to quantum information tailored for high school students, drawing on our experience running a summer camp titled "From Atoms to Quantum Computers" at Middle Tennessee State University. Participants will learn about fun, interactive quantum games that we've developed to make quantum mechanics more approachable for students. In addition, we will provide hands-on practice with coding on the IBM Quantum Computer, giving teachers the tools to bring quantum computing into their own classrooms. We will share all the materials we’ve developed, including lesson plans, games, and coding exercises, which can be adapted to fit your school’s curriculum. Whether you are teaching physics or computer science or just want to expose your students to the cutting-edge field of quantum technology, this workshop will equip you with the resources you need to make quantum concepts accessible and exciting.
Price: $75 (Member), $100 (Nonmember)
Time: 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Organizer(s): Hanna Terletska, Paulsong George, Robert Haddard
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 in part by OPTYCs, The Organization for Physics at Two-Year Colleges (NSF-DUE-2212807), and NSF IUSE grants DUE-2337054, DUE-2337053, DUE-2337051, DUE-2337049, DUE-2337052, DUE-2337056, DUE-2337055, and DUE-2337050.
Price: $75 (Member), $100 (Nonmember)
Time: 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Organizer(s): Marie Lopez del Puerto, Andrew Morrison, Walter Freeman
Bridging Classical and Quantum Realms Using Nuclear Magnetic
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) can bridge the classical and quantum realms and is underutilized in the undergraduate science curriculum. We have developed a set of curricular materials to cover the theory, practice, and applications of NMR in a truly multidisciplinary way as well as have the flexibility for use in a variety of different courses, classroom environments, and institutions. In this workshop, attendees will experience firsthand some of the developed class activities, learn about our research findings assessing implementations of these modules, and finally discuss how these modules may be implemented into coursework at their home institution. A laptop will be helpful to access the full set of online materials being discussed.
Price: $75 (Member), $100 (Nonmember)
Time: 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Organizer(s): Merideth Frey, Katyanna Sciorra
Equity in STEM: Exploring 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 classrooms, and collaborate with other instructors to create viable actions beyond the workshop.
Price: $75 (Member), $100 (Nonmember)
Time: 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Organizer(s): Elissa Levy, Clausell Mathis, Abigail Daane
Quantum Computing: What’s the Buzz?
Are you interested in learning more about Quantum Computing? Have you been asked to teach it or introduce some of the concepts into courses you are already teaching? What’s the state of the field anyway? Do you just want to be more informed about this fascinating, relatively new field? Should it be taught in Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry, Math, or all of them!? If you find yourself interested in these questions, this workshop is for you. We will give an overview of the present state of the field, present an introduction to Quantum Computing, including a discussion of our experiences learning the topics and teaching them, course coverage, format, and learning materials, research we have done on student strengths and difficulties in learning quantum computing topics, and the development of evidence-based materials to teach the course. We will share information on freely available online resources, our own evidence-based materials, and possible texts. We will focus on an undergraduate course, but it will be relevant for classes above and below that level, too.
Price: $75 (Member), $100 (Nonmember)
Time: 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Organizer(s): Beth Thacker, John Di Bartolo
Observing with Unistellar Telescopes
Smart telescopes offer physics and astronomy faculty and students direct entry into both enhanced public outreach and astronomical research thanks to innovative bundling of mechanical, optical, imaging, and software technologies. In this nighttime workshop, participants will learn to set up and operate Unistellar telescopes outdoors. Participants must have either an iOS or Android smartphone or tablet (e.g., an iPad) with which to operate the telescope and acquire CCD (Charge Coupled Device) images. Please dress for cold weather. In case of inclement weather or cloudy skies, the workshop will be moved indoors. Two-year college physics and astronomy faculty are especially encouraged to attend, but all are welcome. This workshop is sponsored by OPTYCs, the Organization for Physics in Two-Year Colleges, and is funded by NSF-DUE-2212807.
Price: $75 (Member), $100 (Nonmember)
Time: 7:30 PM - 10:30 PM
Organizer(s): Paul J. Heafner
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