Commercial Workshops

• Expert TA

  • • Expert TA: Learning Resources beyond Online Homework

    • CW01
    • Sun 01/13, 11:30AM - 12:30PM
    
    
    • by Jeremy Morton
    • Type: Commercial Workshop
    • There is a broad range of learning resources available now, but because these are spread out across many different platforms utilizing them can be difficult for instructors and can make the total cost of materials excessive for students. Expert TA continues to enhance our online homework system, but we have also developed additional educational tools to provide these from one centralized location at a low cost to students. Now instructors can assign Instructional videos for both Algebra and Calculus-based sequences, utilize an advanced Academic Integrity tool suite that effectively keeps students off answer-sharing websites, and more. In addition, building off the success of our automatically graded Free Body Diagrams released in Fall 2017, we have developed "Engineering Style" Extended Free Body Diagrams. During the workshop, we will offer a preview of these resources. We will also discuss the differentiating features of Expert TA's online homework system. Our textbook independent library helps to reinforce the problem-solving process with an abundance of multi-step questions. The majority of these problems involve symbolic answers, and based on a six-year data-mining initiative students receive specific and meaningful feedback for incorrect answers. Please join us for lunch if you are interested in learning more.

• PASCO scientific

  • • What’s New from PASCO Scientific?

    • CW03
    • Sun 01/13, 11:30AM - 12:30PM
    
    
    • by Brett Sackett
    • Type: Commercial Workshop
    • For 55 years, PASCO scientific has brought innovation to the physics classroom with apparatus, sensors, datalogging software, and now even our own curriculum! From Newton's Laws to Ampere's Law, PASCO has your physics lab covered! See the latest to come out of the PASCO factory enabling better ways of teaching physics.

  • • The PASCO Wireless Smart Cart - Game Changer for the Physics Lab

    • CW05
    • Sun 01/13, 1:30PM - 2:30PM
    
    
    • by Brett Sackett
    • Type: Commercial Workshop
    • PASCO's Wireless Smart Cart is the new must-have tool for the physics lab! Get hands on and see how much physics you can do with the Smart Cart! No wires or interfaces required! The fully sensor-integrated Smart Cart means less equipment to manage and set up, while providing the most economical single piece of lab instrumentation for physics ever.

• PASCO scientific

  • • PASCO -Untangling Basic Circuits

    • CW06
    • Sun 01/13, 3:00PM - 4:00PM
    
    
    • by Brett Sackett
    • Type: Commercial Workshop
    • Chances are, your students have had difficulty learning basic circuits. PASCO's Modular Circuits provides a better way to teach circuits in a way that helps your students break through conceptual barriers and not get confused with tangled wires. Focus more time teaching circuit theory than troubleshooting spaghetti. Get hands on with new technology to discover a better way to teach circuits!

• Perimeter Institute

  • • Perimeter Institute: Evidence for Climate Change

    • CW02
    • Sun 01/13, 11:30AM - 12:30PM
    
    

    • by Damian Pope, Laura Pankratz

    • Type: Commercial Workshop
    • Anthropogenic climate change is one of the most important issues facing our students. Join us as we explore the basic science behind climate change and introduce a new classroom resource that will help your students build a better understanding of this important topic. The Evidence for Climate Change resource is the product of collaboration between classroom teachers, Perimeter Institute researchers, and climate scientists.

  • • Perimeter Institute: Wave Model Applications

    • CW04
    • Sun 01/13, 1:30PM - 2:30PM
    
    

    • by Damian Pope, Laura Pankratz

    • Type: Commercial Workshop
    • Waves are a very powerful way to model many natural phenomena such as hearing, earthquakes, and gravitational waves. They also form the basis for several important technologies such as SONAR and ultrasound imaging. Join us as we explore some of the applications of waves using hands-on activities. The Wave Model Applications resource is the product of collaboration between classroom teachers and Perimeter Institute researchers.

  • • Perimeter Institute: What’s New in Physics?

    • CW08
    • Mon 01/14, 11:00AM - 12:00PM
    
    

    • by Damian Pope, Laura Pankratz

    • Type: Commercial Workshop
    • Are you looking for ways to connect your students with current physics research? Join us as we describe some of the recent developments and explore hands-on activities that bring the latest science into your classroom. This year we will look at exoplanets, black holes, gravitational waves, neutrinos, and more.

  • • Perimeter Institute: Visualizing Energy

    • CW10
    • Mon 01/14, 12:00PM - 1:00PM
    
    

    • by Damian Pope, Laura Pankratz

    • Type: Commercial Workshop
    • Understanding energy is crucial to success in Physics but many students struggle with it. Join us as we explore how using energy representations allow our students to deal with concepts like nuclear binding energy, radioactive decay, and the formation ofelements. A Deeper Understanding of Energy is the product of collaboration between classroom teachers and Perimeter Institute researchers.

• Vernier Software & Technology

  • • Introducing Pivot Interactives from Vernier

    • CW07
    • Mon 01/14, 11:00AM - 12:00PM
    
    

    • 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

    • CW09
    • Mon 01/14, 12:00PM - 1:00PM
    
    

    • 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! Explore the free and improved Graphical Analysis 4 app for data collection and analysis.