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March 12, 2008 1) Video Clips in the Classroom January 12, 2008 December 8, 2007 1) Cosmic Rays for High School Students,
Presentation by Deborah Lynn,
Physics Teacher, Ithaca High School November 3, 2007 September 19, 2007, Combined Meeting of the NYS Section of the AAPT and the Central New York Physics Alliance 1) A Modest Proposal Addressing the Physics Teacher Shortage by Master Level Cross and Alternative Certification into Physics Teaching Presentation by Dan MacIssac, SUNY-BUffalo State College
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2/2/02 - Hot Air Balloon Make and Take
Kelvin Water Drop
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September 29, 2007 Combined Meeting of the Physics Alliance of the Central New York Physics Alliance and the New York State Section of the American Association of Physics Teachers, at Rooms 202-204, Physics Building , Syracuse University Dan MacIssac ( SUNY-Buffalo State College): Addressing the High School Physics Teacher Shortage Joe Zawicki and Kathleen Falconer (SUNY-Buffalo State College) Learning from our Students: A Review of Student Responses on the June 2007 NYS Regents Exam. Britton Plourde ( Syracuse University ): Nanoscale Superconducting Devices. Sam Sampere ( Syracuse University ): Help, my Van de Graaff has Fallen Ill and it won't Charge Up! Plourde Lab Tour
June 2, 2007 Magnetic Force on a Current-Carrying Wire A Demonstration for the Speed of Electromagnetic Waves Particle Physics and the Tools of Discovery
April 28, 2007 Make-and-Take March 3, 2007 Make-and-take - Ping-pong ball vacuum cannon Conservation of Energy Lab and make-and-take OCTOBER 28, 2006 Make-and-take of very sensitive electrometer The principle of inertia DECEMBER 2, 2006 Make-and-take of wind turbine SEPTEMBER 23, 2006 Discussion on needs of Science Teachers and Forthcoming Workshops Make-and-Take - Building a Trebuchet (Sampere) MAY 20, 2006 Make and take: Discussion on use of the listserve, Applied Physics Course and Board of Directors
APRIL 29, 2006 Discussion on a) kicking off a Physics Course and b) uses of the Kinesthetic Cart Make and Take: Construction of Diffraction Gratings (Sampere) Saturday Morning Physics March 4, 2006 Make-and-Take Activity: A Center-of-Mass Demonstration Classroom Response Systems Sharing: Labs on Light January 28, 2006 A Conservation of Energy Lab, and Demonstrations on Fire-by-Friction and Center of Gravity (Martin Alderman -FM) Classroom Response Systems and Question-Driven Instruction (Sam Sampere) November 19, 2005 Scientific Sorcery Classroom Response Systems and Question-Driven Instruction October 22, 2005 Make-and-Take: An Alternating-Current Demonstration Saturday Morning Physics Talk Make and Take materials supported by a grant from the John Ben Snow Foundation May 21, 2005 Push the Truck - Sharing April 9, 2005 Make and Take - Kinesthetic Cart Saturday Morning Phyiscs Lecture March 5, 2005 Make and Take - Cloud chamber Make and Take - Construction of Circuit Boxes February 12, 2005 Make-and-Take for Color-Mixer - Sam Sampere Physics Demonstrations for the public
January 22, 2005 Make-and-Take Color Mixer Physics and Society: from Individual Enabling Technologies to Global Crisis Communications November 20, 2004 Tutorial on New Equipment in the Lending Library World Year of Physics 2005 Description of Cosmic Connections, a new exhibit to be permanently installed in the MOST Review of a recent, interesting article in a science education journal October 23, 2004 Discussion of a local Project for the World Year of Physics, 2005 Make-and-Take: Lab for Electrostatics Saturday Morning Physics September 25, 2004 World Year of Physics 2005 (S. Sampere) "Ranking Tasks" by Tom O'Kima ( J. Fitzgibbons) Demonstrations: Learning or Entertainment (A. Miller) New Book "Teaching Phyiscs" by Randall Knight (S. Sampere) May 1, 2004 Make-and-Take-Workshop
led by Sam Sampere - building a function generator Introduction - .ppt slide show Variable Frequency Square Wave Generator Using a 555 Timer February 28, 2004 Make-and-Take-Workshop led by Sam Sampere - building sound interference demonstration
February 28, 2004 Make-and-Take-Workshop
led by Sam Sampere - building sound interference demonstration SATURDAY MORNING PHYSICS TALK on Astrochemistry and Astrobiology: Exploring the Chemical Factories of Intrstelar Space by Prof. Gianfranco Vidali (Syracuse University) November
15, 2003 Kite-Making (presented by Sara Maxwell, S November 20, 2004 Tutorial on New Equipment in the Lending Library World Year of Physics 2005 Description of Cosmic Connections, a new exhibit to be permanently installed in the MOST Review of a recent, interesting article in a science education journal October 23, 2004 Discussion of a local Project for the World Year of Physics, 2005 Make-and-Take: Lab for Electrostatics Saturday Morning Physics September 25, 2004 World Year of Physics 2005 (S. Sampere) "Ranking Tasks" by Tom O'Kima ( J. Fitzgibbons) Demonstrations: Learning or Entertainment (A. Miller) New Book "Teaching Phyiscs" by Randall Knight (S. Sampere) May 1, 2004 Make-and-Take-Workshop
led by Sam Sampere - building a function generator Introduction - .ppt slide show Variable Frequency Square Wave Generator Using a 555 Timer February 28, 2004 Make-and-Take-Workshop led by Sam Sampere - building sound interference demonstration cience Chair of Fabius-Pompey High School) The
World Year of Physics 2005 (by Sam Sampere, Syracuse University) My
Best Lab (Sharing) December
13, 2003 Dr.
Joseph Zawicki (SUNY Buffalo Physics Faculty) SATURDAY
MORNING PHYSICS TALK on
Chaos by Prof. Alan
Middleton (Syracuse University) October
4, 2003 Saturday Morning Physics
Lecture May 31, 2003 April 26, 2003 Saturday
Morning Physics Lecture March 8, 2003 Offering
of Books of Lending Library (Carl Preske and Sam Sampere) February 8, 2003 Inauguration of Lending Library for books Particles in the Classroom Saturday Morning Physics Lecture "The Case of the Missing Antimatter" November 16, 2002 Forensics Lab (Shirley Hartnett, JC Birdlebough HS) Dialogue with Particle Experiment Group on Promoting Science Education (Prof. Steve Blusk, SU) Saturday Morning Physics Lecture: “Modern Cosmology and the Building Blocks of the University” (Prof. Mark Trodden) October 19, 2002 A Summer Workshop
Experience at Cornell (Ranald Bleakley, Weedsport HS; Gerald
Meccariello, Cato-Meridian HS) Ideas on Labs September 28,
2002 Demonstration
on how Standard-Setting is done Searching
for Ripples in Space-Time: Fulfilling Einstein's Vision How does a
Conversion Scale get Constructed How to Compute Item Difficulty and Discrimination How to use
Item Difficulty to Improve Instruction April 27, 2002 Core Curriculum and Exam (Carl Preske ) A Myriad of Demonstrations Using the Van de Graaff Generator (Sam Sampere) February 30, 2001 Modeling Workshop (Fran Leary Troy HS, Jane Conroe,Maple Grove HS). February 2, 2002 One-hour make- and -take (Sam Sampere) Planned engineering competition in area schools (Mark Abramski) Career opportunities of ceramic engineering (John Empie, Steve Pilgrim, Ann Baldwin) March 10, 2001 Hands-on use of software and internet resources to enhance classroom physics January 27, 2001 Summer
Workshop Opportunities October 28, 2000 New
Listserve for Science Teachers September 23, 2000 Book
Review: Just in Time Teaching, reviewed by Allen Miller April 29, 2000 Physics
Tutorials (Joe and Fitz) March 11, 2000 Energy Changes and Laser Diffraction: A Demonstration, Hands-on Activity and Lab (James Stacey, Nottingham HS) Some New
Demonstrations Constructed at Syracuse University (Sam Sampere) November 20, 1999 Building a Model for Electric Circuits: A Workshop based on Physics by Inquiry* (Prof. Cristian Kautz, SU) Physics by Inquiry is a set of instructional materials, developed and tested at the University of Washington and published by John Wiley and Sons, Inc. The materials are intended primarily for the preparation of teachers of physics and physical science. Their design has been guided by results from physics education research. October 23, 1999 Book Review of Inquiry and Learning: Realizing Science Standards in the Classroom by John W. Laymon and Apparatus for Teaching Physics, edited by Karl Mamola Promotion
Learning in the Classroom - Ideas from Arnold Arons and Eric Mazur: September 18, 1999 Make and
Take: Film Can Popper; Elastic/Inelastic May 1, 1999 Book review: "Peer Instruction" by Eric Mazur Make and
Take: The Kelvin Water Drop Electrostatic Is the Subject of Physics a Laughing Matter? February 27, 1999 Book review: "The Dick and Rae Physics Demo Book" An Introduction to Active Physics November 21, 1998 An Interactive Multimedia Resource for Science Teaching: SimScience Make-and-Take Workshop, Part 1: Electrostatic Chimes and Electronic Electroscope. Part 2: Visible Solenoid, Series and Parallel Light Sockets, Christmas Tree, Series and Parallel Circuits October 24, 1998 The Van de Graaff Generator: How it Works and How to Repair it September 26, 1998 Some New Demonstrations and a New Hallway Display: Rocket Car with Fire Extinguisher for Propellant, Giant Van de Graaff, a sign "Experience Physics" for hall display April 25, 1998 Book Review: Why Toast Lands Jelly-Side Down: Zen and the Art of Physics Demonstrations (Author: Robert Ehrlich) Is Science a Laughing Matter? - Use of Humor in Introductory Science Classes Make-and-Take Workshop: Construction of a Pan Flute March 7, 1998 Make-and-Take Workshop September 20, 1997 SimScience: Parallel Supercomputer Simulations for Education in the Sciences Book Review: Teaching Introductory Physics (Author: Arnold Arons) Classroom Capsules: Some New Demonstrations to Illustrate Physics Principles October 26, 1996 A Report on the Central New York LEGO Engineering League Authentic Scientific Research in the High Schools: A Model that Really Works! September 21, 1996 Modernizing Introductory Physics: Discussion of an Alternative Physics Curriculum Pioneered at Colgate University Recruiting Students to Take Physics: The Physics Show Physics on a Shoestring March 23, 1996 Make-and-Take Workshop February 3, 1996 The Calculator Based Laboratory System (CBL) and Graph Links October 28, 1995 Use of the Graphic Calculator in Science Teaching September 16, 1995 Not the Ordinary Pendulum Lab An Example of a 'Black Box' Laboratory Performance of the Socratic-Dialogue-Inducing (SDI) Laboratory on Newton's First and Third Laws April 8, 1995 Workshop on the Use of Interfaces in Introductory Physics Courses Some New Experiments on Waves Some Good, Inexpensive Equipment Purchases March 11, 1995 Sharing of Ideas on Topic-Presentation and/or Labs in Light, Electromagnetism and Sound Some New Experiments, and Some New Ways to Present Familiar Experiments on Electromagnetism and Light February 11, 1994 Sharing of Ideas on Presenting Topics (and on Labs) in Electricity and Magnetism, Optics and Modern Physics Some Fun Experiments to Supplement Classroom Discussion Some New Ideas from Recent Articles in the Physics Teacher and Physics Education December 10, 1994 Make-and-Take Workshop, Part I: a) a set of 'black boxes'; b) an overhead-projector method for drawing ellipses; c) a nuclear-detector analogy; d) wave-forms. Part II: a) a high-low track (two ways of getting to a point); b) galileo's ramps; c) round and square loops (to show magnetic fields of current-carrying coils). October 29, 1994 The SDI (Socratic-Dialog-Inducing) Approach to the Introductory Physics Lab September 24, 1994 Opportunities for Teachers and Students at MOST (Museum of Science and Technology) The Living Textbook (Geoffrey Fox, Director NPAC) March 19, 1994 Open Discussion on Ideas on Presenting Topics (and on Labs) in Electricity and Magnetism, Optics and Modern Physics An Introduction to Labnet and America-on-Line Implementing Labnet and America-on-Line January 15, 1994 Teaching Chaos and Fractals in the High School Classroom Some New Experiments of Waves and Sound December 4, 1993 Electrical Properties of Play-Doh Some Experiments on Waves and Sound Pushing a Truck to Confirm Newton's Second Law November 6, 1993 The Sonic Ranger in the Teaching of Mechanics Two experiments showing the independence of horizontal and vertical motion: the Monkey and the Hunter in Slow Motion and Simultaneous Projectiles Some New Experiments in Mechanics September 18, 1993 Construction and Use of a Bicolor AC Demonstration Demonstration of the Sonic Ranger, with Applications in Teaching Dynamics Construction and Use of a Demonstration of Parallel and Series Circuits A Magnetic Levitation Demonstration - It's Construction and Use Construction and Use of a Bottle Rocket Construction and Use of a 555 Timer Circuit February 27, 1993 Optics Workshop Spped of Light Measurement by Rotating Mirror' Width of a Hair, Measured by Laser Beam Laser Show Simulation of Blue Sky and Red Sunset January 23, 1993 Workshop on Static Electricity December 5, 1992 An Introduction to Chaos Toys and Physics September 26, 1992 Parallel Processing and Virtual Reality for Pre-College Education April 25, 1992 Showing of videotape titled "Modeling" Discussion of the Young Scholars Program of the National Science Foundation February 29, 1992 Discussion of plans for an Institute for the Teaching of Modern Physics and Technology February 1, 1992 Problem solving laboratory exercises Space
and
Time: From Newton to Einstein and Beyond (Abhay Ashtekar)
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