Bulletin of the American Physical Society
2006 APS April Meeting
Saturday–Tuesday, April 22–25, 2006; Dallas, TX
Session E10: Focus Session: K-12 Education |
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Sponsoring Units: FEd Chair: Peggy McMahan, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cumberland C |
Saturday, April 22, 2006 3:30PM - 4:06PM |
E10.00001: Online Physics Education Resources from the American Museum of Natural History Invited Speaker: Through its National Center for Science Literacy, Education and Technology, the American Museum of Natural History has created a rich array of physics education resources for teachers, students and the general public. Many of these resources, which include essays, images, videos and interactive simulations, leverage ongoing research within the Division of Physical Sciences at the Museum as well as exhibitions and specimens from the Museum's collections. The online resources featured include \textit{Science Bulletins} (current research and recent discoveries) , \textit{Ology} (a website for children), \textit{Resources for Learning} (a searchable database of curricular resources) and \textit{Seminars on Science} (online teacher professional development). The genesis of these projects, their underlying strategies and their implementation will be reviewed. Sample resources will be presented, including colliding galaxies, the tracking of near-Earth asteroids, Einstein's legacy and geophysics. A CD of physics resources from the Museum will be provided to attendees. [Preview Abstract] |
Saturday, April 22, 2006 4:06PM - 4:30PM |
E10.00002: A Traveling Physics Demonstration Show for Northern Kentucky. S. Nutter, M. O. Zacate, L. Kinne As a result of the 1990 Kentucky Education Reform Act, the Kentucky Department of Education has established a detailed grade-by-grade curriculum. This largely assures that students in a given grade level will have been exposed to the same Physics topics regardless of the school they attend. This allows one to design a Physics demonstration show that augments the Kentucky Program of Studies in Physical Science in addition to generating interest in Physics. In this presentation we shall discuss factors influencing the selection of demonstrations, including anecdotal evidence for which topics require special attention, and outline plans for evaluating whether or not the demonstrations improve student understanding through pre-demonstration and post-demonstration quizzes. [Preview Abstract] |
Saturday, April 22, 2006 4:30PM - 4:54PM |
E10.00003: Improving High School Physics Through An Outreach Initiative Nouredine Zettili We want to discuss our outreach initiative at Jacksonville State University designed to help improve the teaching of physics at a number of high schools in Northeast Alabama. This initiative is part of Project IMPACTSEED (IMproving Physics And Chemistry Teaching in SEcondary Education), a No-Child Left Behind grant funded by the Alabama Commission on Higher Education. This project is motivated by a major pressing local need: A large number of high school physics teachers teach out of field. IMPACTSEED is designed to achieve a double aim: (a) to make physics and chemistry understandable and fun to learn within a hands-on, inquiry-based setting; (b) to overcome the fear-factor for physics and chemistry among students. Through a two-week long summer institute, a series of weekend workshops designed to help bring technology into physics classrooms, onsite support, and a hotline, we have been providing year-round support to the physics/chemistry teachers in this area. IMPACTSEED aims at providing our students with a physics/chemistry education that enjoys a great deal of continuity and consistency from high school to college. [Preview Abstract] |
Saturday, April 22, 2006 4:54PM - 5:18PM |
E10.00004: Japan Fulbright Memorial Fund Program Opens New Avenues for Effective Technology Integration into Education Franco Paoletti, Lisa Marie Carlucci Technology is increasingly playing a major role in today's education often integrated into instruction to become one of the teacher's most effective and often indispensable tools used in the classroom. It can be said that the use of technology at the beginning of this new millennium is affecting the instructional process and it is changing some of its basic connotations. The presented work analyzes the impact of various technologies on education emphasizing the advantages provided by a successful integration, the obstacles encountered along the way, and the methodologies currently used in the process. ``Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international relations'' (\textit{Senator J.M. Fulbright}). Technology of this modern era is providing the indispensable tool to achieve this superior level of communication overcoming historical, cultural, and language barriers. In the context of the Japan Fulbright Memorial Fund (JFMF) Teacher Program, we analyze the impact of technology on educational cross-cultural exchanges to raise awareness and interest of the scientific/educational community on the need of establishing stronger international relations promoting world peace and global prosperity. [Preview Abstract] |
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