Fun, Engaging and Effective Labs and Demos in
Mechanics and Optics with Clickers, Video Analysis and Computer-Based Tools
David
Sokoloff, Priscilla Laws and Ronald Thornton
Half-day
workshop. Next offering at Summer AAPT Meeting, Sacramento, CA, July 16, 2016.
RealTime Physics and Interactive Lecture Demonstrations have
been available for over 15 years—so whatÕs new? Participants in this
workshop will have hands-on experience with some of the new activities in RTP and ILD using of
clickers, video analysis and computer-based tools to teach mechanics and optics
concepts. These active learning approaches for lectures, labs, and recitations
(tutorials) are fun, engaging and validated by physics education research
(PER). Research results demonstrating the effectiveness of these curricula will
be presented. The following will be distributed: Modules from the Third Edition
of RTP, the ILD book, and Teaching Physics with the Physics Suite by E.F.
Redish. For more information, contact David Sokoloff. Pre-registration
required. To register, go to the AAPT Web-Site.
Interactive Lecture Demonstrations—WhatÕs New? ILDs
Using Clickers and Video Analysis
David
Sokoloff,
Priscilla Laws and Ronald Thornton
AAPT session. Next
offering at AAPT Summer Meeting, Sacramento, CA, July,
2016.
The results of
physics education research and the availability of microcomputer-based tools
have led to the development of the Activity Based Physics (ABP) Suite. Most of
the ABP Suite materials are designed for hands-on learning, for example
student-oriented laboratory curricula like RealTime Physics. One reason for the success of
these materials is that they encourage students to take an active part in their
learning. This interactive session will demonstrate Suite materials designed to
promote active learning in lecture—Interactive Lecture Demonstrations (ILDs)—through active audience participation. The
demonstrations will be drawn from energy, heat and thermodynamics, oscillations
and waves, electricity and magnetism, light and optics. Results of studies on
the effectiveness of this approach will be presented. This session should be of
special interest to teachers of large lecture classes as well as those who
teach small classes where only one computer is available. For more
information, contact David Sokoloff. No pre-registration
required. For more information on location, go to the AAPT
Web-Site.
Activity
Based Physics in the High School Classroom
Maxine Willis,
Priscilla Laws, and Steve Henning
Full-day
workshop. Next offering at AAPT Summer Meeting, Sacramento, CA, July 17, 2016.
This hands-on workshop is designed for teachers in
advanced physics classes such as AP, International Baccalaureate and honors
physics. Teachers attending should be interested in enabling their students to
master physics concepts in mechanics by engaging in inquiry-based active
learning. Participants will work with classroom-tested curricular materials
drawn from the Activity Based Physics Suite materials. These curricula make
creative use of flexible computer tools available from Vernier
and PASCO. These materials have been developed in accordance with the outcomes
of physics education research . Affordable access to
the Suite materials for secondary school use is now available and will be
discussed. For
more information contact Maxine Willis, Associate Fellow,
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Dickinson College, willism@dickinson.edu.
To register, go
to the AAPT Web-Site.
Making Interactive Video Vignettes and
Interactive Online Lectures
Bob Teese, Priscilla W. Laws, Patrick
Cooney, Kathleen Koenig and Maxine C. Willis
Half-day
workshop. Next offering at AAPT Summer Meeting, Sacramento, CA, July 16, 2016.
The LivePhoto Physics
Project is creating online activities that combine narrative videos with
interactive, hands-on elements for the user including video analysis or making
predictions based on replaying a short video.(http://www.compadre.org/ivv).
They can contain branching questions, where the user's answer affects the
sequence of elements that follow. They are delivered over the Internet and run
in a normal browser on the user's device. The same software can be used to make
both short Interactive Video Vignettes and longer Interactive Web Lectures for
flipped classrooms or online courses. In this workshop you will learn how to
make your own vignettes and interactive web lectures using a Java application.
You must have your own web server to host your activities. The web page http://ivv.rit.edu/workshop
has detailed requirements for the video equipment and website you will need.
(Supported by NSF grants DUE-1122828 and DUE-1123118.) For more information
contact Maxine Willis, Associate Fellow, Department of Physics and Astronomy,
Dickinson College, willism@dickinson.edu. To register, go to the AAPT Web-Site.