American
Association of Physics Teachers
Friday,
October 19th and Saturday October, 20th 2007
1200 N. Main St.
5:30-7:30 p.m.
Friday: Gresham High School, rm
146 (park in Division St. Parking
Workshop: New
Products and Great Ideas from Vernier (no cost)
John Gastineau, Vernier Software & Technology. Come to see the latest from Vernier and get hands-on time with a variety of equipment and labs. The new LabQuest will be available, as well as variety of probes and video equipment. If you have great ideas you would like to share, please bring them.
**Please
pre-register by e-mailing Stephen Scannell at sscannell@verizon.net or going to http://www.oraapt.org
**Dinner provided for workshop participants by Vernier Software**
Due to circumstances, the previously announced Demo Show has been cancelled.
Saturday
8:30 a.m – 9:00 a.m. Registration ($10.00
ORAAPT).
Refreshments
courtesy of Vernier Software and Technology
9:00-9:20 Jason Palmer,
“Teaching with Technology, The Wave Project.” I
have been using a wireless SMART Board slate in my classroom and would love to
share how I am using it.
9:20-9:40 Christina
Thompson,
“Help! My students can’t read!” Statistics of reading levels of high school graduates released in the
spring compelled me to intervene this year.
If students can’t access the info in the book, we’re not going to do so
well. Here are some strategies and
resources that I am using to help students engage in the text and the material.
9:40-10:00 Bruce
Emerson,
"Assessment in a Physics
Environment" I'm exploring different assessment options including
posing exam problems through the net. We
are also exploring other assessment issues as we work to meet changing
accreditation requirements
10:00-10:30 Break
10:30- 10:50 Larry Ruby, Retired. lawrenceruby@yahoo.com
"A 10-Dollar Physics Bargain". At physics2000.com, one can purchase a CD and booklet for
$10.00, including shipping. The disk contains a complete introductory
physics textbook. The booklet is a hard copy of the first
chapter on Special Relativity. Also on the disk are a manual for the
programming language True Basic, a calculus textbook, and a tutorial on Fourier
analysis.
10:50-12:00 Guest
Speaker, Ted Brekken, Assistant Professor in
Energy Systems
Electrical Engineering &
Computer Science,
“The Promise of Wave Power.” A significant untapped renewable energy
source exists in the world’s oceans. It is estimated that if 0.2% of the
oceans’ untapped energy could be harnessed, it could provide power sufficient
for the entire world. This presentation discusses the opportunities for
ocean wave power to become a new, reliable and clean source of affordable
renewable energy. Wave energy research and developments at Oregon State
University (OSU) will be presented, in addition to the developing opportunities
for the state of
12:00- 1:30 Lunch and
discussion (You may order lunch at the
start of the meeting to be delivered to the school, ~$7-$10. You are also free to go to one of the many
nearby restaurants)
1:30-2:00 Business Meeting
2:00-2:20 Zack Adler,
zadler@uoregon.edu
”Totally wicked assessments, man.”
As physics
teachers our primary goal is typically to change the way students see the world
(hopefully in a more enlightened way). Or, in other words, can students apply
their attained knowledge to new situations. I have worked up a new fun and
engaging assessment type that students will beg
you to do again and again (not because of their scores, but because they want to).
2:20-2:40 Dan
Calkins, Gresham High School Student Teacher, US Air Force, retired
“The Latest in Earth Orbiting
Satellites (EOS).” Many images from EOS, used
for volcano
monitoring, mapping, glaciers/ice monitoring/global climate change and other
things, are available online. Here are
some resources and ideas to use for exposing students to real data and hands-on
science.
2:40-3:00 Greg
Mulder,
"Quarks to Cosmos". This class started at the
nuclear reactor in
3:00-3:30 Share your favorite demo or
idea
3:30 Door Prizes and Adjourn
Future Meetings of Interest
Oregon
Spring 2007, March 7-8
Friday night workshops/demo show, Saturday meeting.
Fall 2007, October
18th,
National Section Meetings
AAPT National Winter Meeting:
AAPT National Summer Meeting:
PNACP: