------- Information on SLAPT Workshop Events for 2011-2012 School Year Posted Below and on the Archive page linked above --------
------- Six Flags Physics Day!--------
---- Teacher Volunteers needed to help staff the Data Collection Tent at Mr. Freeze - Contact Jen Meyer via email if you can help
Date: Friday, April 27, 2012
Time: 9:00 a.m. - 5 pm
Again this year, Physics Day is exclusive to high school physics -- Math and Science day is one week later -- giving your students even better access to the rides. SLAPT highly recommends the picnic combo package that includes buffet lunch in the catering grove - it's much better than waiting in lines at the food vendor stations. If you choose to buy park admission tickets without the lunch, you can save several dollars per ticket if you order in advance. You also get one free chaperone ticket for every 15 paid tickets. Bus and car parking is $15 per vehicle. Processing fee is $10 and is indicated on the order form. Here is the 2012 order form 2012 Physics Day Order Form -- or call Six Flags at 636-938-4800 ext 288. Also again, this year, there will be data collection opportunities at Mr. Freeze with Vernier accelerometers. Students can wear a vest with the equipment attached and then download data following the ride. Teacher volunteers are needed throughout the day to staff the data collection equipment. If you are available, email Jen Meyer at jenmeyer82@gmail.com to volunteer for as little as a couple of hours or as much as the whole day. Further information and curriculum materials can be downloaded HERE on this web site.
April 28, 2012 - Annual Physics Competition - Washington University Physics Department
Date: April 28, 2012 --- with entry deadline April 21
Time: 8:30 a.m.
Location: Washington University Crow Hall
For full details, schedule, and entry requirements, please click: Annual SLAPT Physics Contest.
May 19, 2012 SLAPT Planning Meeting for 2012-2013 School Year
What: SLAPT Planning Meeting
When: Saturday, May 19, 2012, 7:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Where: John Burroughs School
755 S. Price Rd. 63124
Hi to all the folks of the SLAPT!
We are going to put together the program for next year and we would love to have your input. First, if you can, please come on Saturday the 19th to help us plan for next year. If you cannot make it, would you forward any thoughts, ideas, requests, and/or needs you might have for your own professional development. Next, would you consider running a workshop in your area of interest or expertise? Followed by, would you be willing to host a workshop at your school? This is truly an all-volunteer organization and we are always in need of more help and more ideas. You would be very welcome at the meeting no matter what your background or experience level. Help us keep this organization a top source of physics professional development in the St. Louis area.
If you would take the time to RSVP to Val Michael at vmichael@jburroughs.org, it would be appreciated for food considerations.
Thanks,
Val Michael
Summer Workshops - Here is the start of a list of Summer Workshops hosted and sponsored by other organizations.
What: Laboratory Methods in Physics --- and APB and C Physics Workshops
Date: June 18 - 29, 2012
Location: Ball State - Muncie, Indiana
Click HERE for futher information
2011-2012 SLAPT President's Welcome
Gary Taylor, President – Saint Louis Area Physics Teachers
Welcome to the 2011-2012 Saint Louis Area Physics Teachers Association! Come and participate in the best peer-directed teacher support organization in the world (IMHO). We will be continuing our long tradition of workshops and meetings aimed to provide direct classroom support to you. Look at our schedule of events and come to one. You too will find great peer discussions, conversations, classroom lessons, unit planning strategies, and the latest research-based “best practices.” We have the most experienced physics teachers in the area giving workshops and providing personal support to the teachers of the Saint Louis Region (and beyond). Many of our workshop leaders have provided these same services at national conferences. Please let me know if you have a need in your classroom. SLAPT has many resources and we aim to serve. Don't forget to check out all the resources and archived information in this website starting with the page you are on right now: www.slapt.org And especially make sure you have signed up to receive our periodic emails giving details on all the workshops. Go HERE to do that. Thanks and I’ll see you at the next meeting. Gary Taylor, President -- gary.e.taylor@att.net
Join the American Association of Physics Teachers
Why should you become a member? It's easy, and there are nice tangible benefits: you will receive both Physics Today and either the Physics Teacher or the American Journal of Physics (your choice) in addition to online access to the magazines. AAPT sponsors contests, awards, pre-college and college teacher training programs, programs for physics students, two national meetings each year, facilitates collaborations between all sorts of physics teachers, and provides grants to sections.
Perhaps more importantly, though less tangibly, is that AAPT is our professional organization, and that membership is a professional responsibility. AAPT supports what we do, recruits and trains new teachers, voices our concerns to legislators, and boosts the prestige of our profession.
Additionally, our new AAPT section status gives SLAPT greater visibility and recognition in the national physics teacher community. Our involvement in AAPT through membership and participation in national meetings will further boost the strength and quality of service SLAPT provides to our members.
Click HERE to go to AAPT's online registration site.
Workshops and meetings planned for the remainder of the 2011-2012 school year --- Many dates are TENTATIVE -- this website will be updated as they become firm.
Check back here for other possible event during the school year
West Point Bridge Design Contest-2012 St. Louis Version
The St. Louis Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) has held a local contest in conjunction with the national West Point Bridge Design contest. Information on the 2012 local contest is available here: 2012 West Point Bridge Design Contest. Note that if you are wanting to enter the national qualifying round - the deadline is typically in February (2012). The local contest, however, is one round only and you can enter all the way up to April 2, 2012. Here is the link to the main USMA 2012 contest site: http://bridgecontest.usma.edu/ check back here for any updates to this information.
SIUE has renewed their offering of graduate level credit for attending SLAPT workshops
SIUE is offering three hours of graduate credit for attending SLAPT workshops. To be eligible one must show evidence of attending and participating in 40 hours worth of workshops, or 10 normal workshops over the course of a three year period. The Refresher Physics/New Teachers Workshops that were offered this year were 8 hours each and count for two normal workshops. In addition to attending workshops, a reflection of how you used the ideas gained from at least one SLAPT workshop in your own teaching and how you modified it to meet your students’ needs, resources, budget, etc. must be submitted. This paper should around 5 page in length and written like a Physics Teacher article.
The cost is as follows for the three hours (this price does not include fees):
Instate (Missouri is included): $751.50
Out of state: 1,878.50
Thank you to Thomas Foster for making this opportunity available to us. Contact him at SIUE for more information.Tom Foster; tfoster@siue.edu
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