March
Physics Update
From the
Alabama
Section of AAPT
Dr.
Paul Helminger, President of our section, has set Saturday,
April 12 as the date for the Spring
AAPT meeting in Mobile at the University of South Alabama. Please mark this on your calendar. Here is the tentative schedule. Please bring a demo
for show and tell to share.
Room 140 Instructional
Saturday, April 12, 2008
The program includes a
session on physics lecture demonstrations.
Please bring your favorite demonstrations to share with the Alabama AAPT
community!
Tentative Program
Time Topic Presenter/Discussion
Leader
8:00 8:10 am Welcoming
remarks S.L.
Varghese
Chair,
Associate Dean of A&S
8:10 8:30 am Overview
of
8:30 9:00 am
9:00 9:30 am Alternative
Assessment Using TIPERS Tommi
Holsenbeck, ASU
9:30 10:00 am Using
TIPERS with a Classroom Response Marllin
Simon, AU
System to Probe for Understanding
10:00 10:10 am Break
10:10 10:30 am Laboratory
Exercises in Astronomy R.
Kent Clark,
10:30 11:00 am PhysTEC Stan
Jones, UA
11:00 12:00 pm Show
& Tell Physics Demonstrations Meeting
Partipicants
12:00 1:00 pm Lunch
1:00 1:30 pm
1:30 2:30 pm Modeling
Physics Instruction Tim
Burgess, McGill Toolen
Martina
Norton,
Barry
Walker, Briarwood Christian
2:30 3:00 pm Physics
First Comes to
Neff
Weber, McGill Toolen
Bob
McDowell, McGill Toolen
More
information about motels, directions, etc will follow. Please let Dr. Helminger
know you are coming:
phelming@jaguar1.usouthal.edu
News
of Mississippi Section meeting:
Please save 5 April as the date of the next meeting of the Mississippi Association of Physicists. The meeting will be at the Grand Gulf Nuclear Station (power facility) near Port Gibson, MS.
We will mail a newsletter within the next week concerning the meeting and further details will be available on the MAP website, www.msphysics.org.
I look forward to seeing you at the meeting next month.
James M. Sabatier
MAP President
University of Mississippi
National Center for Physical Acoustics
University, MS 38677
662 915 5404 office
662 816 5404 cell phone
662 915 3949 fax
Sabatier@olemiss.edu e-mail
There
will be a modeling workshop at Briarwood Christian School this summer. The information and application is attached.
PLEASE
help us get information out to the Section members. I am always looking for tidbits, news,
sources, etc to pass along to secondary and post secondary physics
teachers.
If you have any other
questions, suggestions or items to share
Please contact me
Tommi
Holsenbeck
eholsenbeck@alasu.edu