September 9, 2006: Graphical Analysis Workshop
When: Saturday, September 9, 2006, 8 AM-3 PM
Where: Villa Duchesne/Oakhill School
801 S. Spoede Rd.
St. Louis, MO 63131
Hosts: Rex Rice, Debbie Rice and Katy Chole
Cost: $10.00

Rex Rice, Debbie Rice and Katy Chole will lead this 6 hour workshop. It is designed to help you guide your students to develop mathematical models from experimental data. The $10.00 fee covers the workshop manual and a pizza lunch.

Please send your $10.00 check payable to Katy Chole at Villa by September 5, 2006.

This workshop is intended to introduce participants to a way to structure physics curriculum units in such a way to make them more inquiry based. Participants will learn to redesign experiments so that students are able to develop the mathematical models to be used in a physics unit through methods of graphical analysis. Basic elements of the Modeling Method for Teaching Physics will be introduced.

While the Vernier Software program, Graphical Analysis, will be used in this workshop, the workshop is not intended as a tutorial on the software, but rather as an introduction to how to incorporate the process of graphical analysis into teaching physics. Graphing with other software such as Microsoft Excel will be discussed.

Participants will receive a copy of the workshop manual on a CD. The manual includes the workshop activities, a set of experiment guides for over 50 experiments that incorporate the graphical analysis methods shown in the workshop, a student guide to graphical analysis, a curriculum unit on graphical analysis, and a tutorial on using Microsoft Excel for performing graphical analysis.