Methods of Teaching Physics Summer 2012

Presented by Howard Myers and Mark Scinta

 

Veteran AP Physics , Honors Physics, and Regents Physics Instructor, Ossining High School, Ossining , NY

Howard Myers has been selected teacher-of-the-year at Ossining HS three times during
his teaching career and was one of five finalists in the IBM Education Fellows Award
Program. Howard was awarded a United States Fulbright Teacher Exchange and taught a
year in England. He is a PTE (Pasco Technology Educator) for the PASCO Scientific
Equipment company.

 Mark Scinta has been teaching for 19 years. For 16 years, Mark has taught Regents physics at Ossining High School. He has also taught AP Physics for 6 years. During this time, Mark has developed numerous engaging demonstrations and labs. The project based learning approach has also been incorporated into many units. Mark is also the advisor for the engineering club whose projects have included an electric car, t-shirt launcher, water rockets and balloon launcher.
 

    During this four day workshop participants will be actively involved in preparing lessons for the following school year. All topics from the new state syllabus will be covered.  Each day will be divided into 4 distinct sessions.

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 Demonstrations – The instructor will share his favorite demonstrations that are guaranteed to generate interest and enthusiasm in all students.  At the end of the week, all experienced teachers will be asked to share one demonstration that they use and have found to be most successful.

 

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The  Web – Interesting web sites will be explored and shared among the participants.  The teachers will learn how to use the Internet to find and use Physics applets in the classroom. All teachers will compile a list of tested simulations and interactive labs, which can be used free on the Internet.

 

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Labs –  Each afternoon will be devoted to lab activities.  Participants will perform labs using Jell-O and two by fours on the low tech end of the spectrum and a full range of PASCO equipment at the nearly state of the art end.  The Ossining HS physics classroom has 12 computers each with a computer interface and a set of sensors. The labs are designed to have students use real life experiences and science inquiry skills to solve open-ended questions. Teachers will write up one lab activity and share it with the class by the end of the week.

 

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Teaching strategies and tips – This part of the daily ritual will include but not be limited to videos, homework, projects, worksheets, tests, PowerPoint presentations, objectives, dry erase boards, ordering equipment and supplies, magic, and cartoons.

Whether this is your first year teaching, or you are an experienced science teacher planning on getting certified in a second area, or you are an experienced physics teacher looking for a few new tricks to liven up your lessons, this is the workshop for you.  

Date: June 25th- June 28 th, 2012

Time : 8:00 AM-3:30 PM 

Cost:  $595.00

Place: Science Wing, Ossining High School,  29 South Highland Avenue, Ossining , New York

Sponsored by: PWISTA

Credit : A 30-hour certificate toward in-service credit will be issued for use according  to your school district’s policy.

For college credit information link

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Springhill Suites by Marriott
480 White Plains Road
Tarrytown, NY 10591
Phone: 914-366-4600

 

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Sample Course Outline and Agenda

Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4

Session 1

Introduction

                        

POD    Magic 

 

Newton’s Laws  

            My philosophy – larger is better, discrepant is more memorable, surprising is more interesting,  interactive is another mode and imprints better

            Show Free Fall PowerPoint and include as many of these demonstrations as possible

Dry Erase Boards- philosophy

            Book and paper(2 sheets), guinea and feather tube, vacuum pump,  paper cup with hole and water

 
 

 Mechanics 

  1. Accelerometer
  2. long water tube with cork
  3. coat hanger – twice – with glued on penny and without glue
  4. Toilet Paper Roll
  5. Newton's First Law  -  Bowling Ball & Inertia
  6. Egg and Sheet
  7. egg on soccerball
  8. Sliding a student and m
  9. How to stop a spinning wheel?
  10. The battering ram
  11. Newton's cradle

 

 

 

Lesson Plans – Madeline Hunter

 

Motion in 2D             - Projectiles and Circular Motion

Demonstrations – Projectiles

1.     Projectile apparatus from up high
2.     Projectile over the Physics Bridge of Doom

3.     Watch Howie shoot ET(Tigger)!

4.     Measure the Speed of a Dart

5.     Swinging Penny

6.     Swing a cup of water

7.     Magnetic Marbles

            
 

Worksheets –                       

            Projectiles

            CrossNumber Puzzle

 

POD  & Review from the 7th

 

Refraction & Optics

            PowerPoint Presentation and Demonstrations

1.     Magic Elixir             2.  The Cloak of Invisibility
3.     Focal Point R vs B -Overhead Projector
4.     Blackboard Optics Kit           6.  Fishtank & Laser
7.     Bent Rod?                 8.   Fiber Optics Kit
9.     Stream of water and TIR            10.   ET Impression
11.  Blind Spot                  12.   Pin hole to improve vision
            
 

Worksheets –                       

1.     Worksheet on Light rays thru glass objects

 

 

  POD  - Hairdryer Pod

 PowerPoint Presentation with analogies on Electricity

                        The ski slope, the supermarket, the water main, the monster race

 

Demonstrations – Circuits

1.     Fuse wire
2.     Parallel and series board
3.     60 watt bulbs vs 100 watt bulbs
4.     9 volt vs AA
5.     UFO Ball –series & parallel
6.     The Massive LightBulb = ? wattts

 

Session 2-  TI 83 plus

 

            TI 83 philosophy   Nina had one and I borrowed it.   A) why memorize?  The rest of your life you can look things up, so why not now.   Index card on tests     B) v. v. powerful tool – use it to find   logs, square roots, cube roots,   slope – differentiate,  area – integrate,    Do you really know what you are doing when you divide 4 digit numbers by 4 digit numbers, or logs or integrate

Cut down tree with a hand saw vs chain saw example.

 

Highlights – mode, contrast, quit vs clear vs delete,

enter scientific notation, apps - finance  

I.  Graphing    (Y =  ( then Graph, then table, then window, then zoom, then trace/calc.

  
 

 

Web Activities discuss www.new.schoolnotes.com

 

Tips

 

1.     Ordering – Catalogs, equipment, supplies        handouts – American Science & Surplus, Pasco, Educational Innovations, Arbor Scientific

2.     Cartoons – handout copies -  all have been scanned and are on my CD.

3.     PowerPoint presentations – Why? great organizer, another visual,   Do you want lessons? On my CD – about half of the year.

4.     Week of      concept – with quotes, cartoons, birthdays

 

TI-84   Projectile Motion

 Webassign.net     tip – scale HW from easy to hard & preview it

                                    

Web Activities at            www.new.schoolnotes.com

            

            Contests  a) Physics T-shirt   b) Momentum – the Game   c) Physics Gran Prix  d) Bumper Stickers    e) Rube Goldberg   f) egg drop

 

 

TI-84 Solver Mode & Graphing                       

 

Web Activities  www.new.schoolnotes.com            

Tips

1) Videos – Video

      a) Laser Disc – Cinema Classics

      b) Frames of Reference Video – “The best damn film ever made!” – S. Spielberg

      c) The Way Things Go –“ Better than the best film ever made!! – S. Spielberg

            2) Reading to the Class

            3) More Projects and Contests

 

Web Activities   

Make and take time

Tips

1.     Back-to-School Night - powerpoint

2.     Great Adventure - 6 Flags

3.     Collaboration Model

4.     To be the best you can be

5.     Reviewing for the Final – review teams

 

Session 3- Make & Take

 

1.     Accelerometer.      Need – large jar, cork ball, string, glue gun and glue sticks.

 

Make & Take

            Series and Parallel Hot Dog Cooker

 

Make & Take

                        Two Balloons  - discrepant event

 

 Cooking Hot Dogs in Parallel vs. Series

 

 

 

Session 4  Labs

 

Discuss - Lab #1 - Variation in Data

Do - Lab #2 Uniform Motion – Walk-a-Graph

**Extra Credit Lab - Show US a Million***
Do - Lab #3 - A Trip to the Elevator

Do - Lab #4 - Acceleration due to Gravity the Falling picket fence thru photogate            

Do - Lab #5 – Fun with Sir Isaac Learning Cycle

 

 

 Labs

Lab #1 -  X-Marks the Spot (rolling)

Lab #2  - X-Marks the Spot (swinging)

Lab #3 - Baseball Throw/Soccer Kick

Lab #4 - What is the period of a pendulum? L = 2.50 m, M == 4.6 kg  Q = 10°           

Lab #5 – Air Rocket on Football Field 

Lab #5 ½  Water Balloon Launcher – (A work in progress)

Lab #6 – Projectile Launchers

 

Labs

Lab #1 – Learning Cycle - Refraction

Lab #2 – Snell’s Law – The Edible Lab

Lab #3 – Laser Shoot

 
Labs      Puzzles – Parallel and Series and combinations

Demo Derby – everyone shares.

 
Wrap-Up – Raffle Prizes, Farewells, Week Summary, Evaluation,

 

 

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