February
2009 e-Wave
Alabama
Section of AAPT
Our Annual Meeting will be
on February 28th from 9am till 4pm at Harmon Hall on the University
of Montevallo campus. Signs will be
posted in the building guiding you to the rooms.
From the President:
We are looking forward to a great meeting at the
end of February on Saturday the 28th at the University of
Montevallo. It is not too late to decide to come just email me (Chuck Hanke) to
let me know you are coming so we can plan accordingly. If you use STI PD sign
up there to get your professional development hours. We have enough presentations
to have several concurrent sessions so you will get to pick and choose what you
want to see and hear. A partial list of presentations follows: Implementing
Inquiry in the Physics Classroom, Celebrating Einstein and Pi Day, Projectile
Motion Made Easy, Using Clickers in the Physics Classroom, Exploring
the PhET Simulations, Opportunities for High School Connections in
Particle Physics and Astrophysics, Measuring Systematic Errors
with Curve Fits (in introductory labs), Global Warming How Much is
Demonstrable?, Explaining How Energy Relates to Force and Rate of Change
of Momentum, A New Vision for the Alabama Section of AAPT/Physic Fantasy
? What Were You Thinking?, and Great Online Resources for Teachers and
How to Organize Them
Public School Teachers-Register at the STI/PD site for the meeting.
https://pdweb.alsde.edu/pdweb/
The session is: (PD Title No.
AAPT-AL)
Other persons attending,
please email Chuck Hanke, hankec@montevallo.edu
With your name. There is NO registration fee but we need some
idea of numbers.
Silent
Auction
A new event for the Annual
Meeting will be a Silent Auction.
Contribute an item and your bidding number is free. To view and bid on the items you must
purchase a number for $2. What a
bargain. Some items in the auction (and
some you can contribute) may include:
Text books
Physics demos items
Software
Videos
Kits on Scientists
Toys for a physics teacher
to love
News Teachers Can Use:
DVD from ZTech, the PSSC
film "Frames of Reference" is available in entirety online:
http://www.archive.org/details/frames_of_reference
Found via Mr. Mont's blog:
http://mrmont.edublogs.org/2009/01/16/dr-hume-and-dr-ivey/
Frames of Reference is also on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y75kEf8xLxI) and
therefore it is easily downloadable into a form that can be edited into
segments for use in your Keynotes or PowerPoints! What a great resource to use
when teaching about Galilean Transformations, etc.
Ten Days of Newton
http://judson.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/23/the-ten-days-of-newton/
For Section Members
The Essential Exponential!
A collection of articles by Albert A. Bartlett, M. King Hubbert, and L. David
Roper. Edited
by Neb. Section members Robert Fuller, John Rogers and Vicki Plano Clark. 291
pages, © 2004.
Special AAPT Section Offer:
Box of 26 Books only - $150 + $20 shipping = $170 paid in
advance!
Note: This is only is only $6.53 per book, postage paid!!! Your section
could sell them for $10 each{the list price is $30!} and make a profit
for your section!
Do you have 25 students or section members who need this book?
(You can read the details about the book on the website if you don't remember
anything about it: http://www.unl.edu/scimath/
- just click on The Essential Exponential! under CSMCE Projects
on their home page.)
Order directly from Jane Kaufmann
Center for Science, Mathematics & Computer Education
University of Nebraska Lincoln
251 Avery Hall
Lincoln, NE 68588-0131
Phone: 402-472-8965
Fax: 402-472-9311
email: jkaufmann1@unl.edu
Best
wishes,
Robert Fuller
Nebraska Section
If you can’t attend our
Annual Meeting, please be current with your dues. Dues are from Annual Meeting to Annual
Meeting (Even if it has not been 12 months).
Send $5 cash or check with the information form to:
Tommi Holsenbeck
2833 McGehee Rd
Montgomery, Al 36111
Alabama Section AAPT
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