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High school physics education issues as seen by some American teachers: From content standards to critical thinking

Saturday, August 02, 2014

Planning the year: NGSS, AP1, and AP2 - Part 1: The broad strokes

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My assignment for the 2014-15 academic year includes Physics, AP Physics 1, and AP Physics 2. The Physics course should be aligned to Next G...
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In good company

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The American Association of Physics Teachers formally unveiled its Fellows program at the Awards session of its Summer 2014 meeting at The...
Thursday, July 31, 2014

AAPT SM14: Physics Force selected moments in high speed

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The Physics Force provided the demo show for AAPT's Summer Meeting 2014 at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. I caught a few m...
Sunday, July 27, 2014

My AAPT SM14 photo album begins

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Most images are from Sunday's High School Share-a-thon at The American Association of Physics Teachers Summer Meeting 2014 (AAPT SM14) s...
Thursday, July 17, 2014

Pearls of Water demonstration

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Pearls of Water demonstration - Get set...demonstrate for Demo Day 2014 Another gem from the United Kingdom's National Stem Centre .
Monday, July 14, 2014

Yellowstone lightning strike caught on video

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The lightning grounded through a tree and the voltage remained high through the conductive root structure. The heating of the surrounding (l...
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Friday, July 04, 2014

I was bound to do this

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So there I was at Victoria Falls , on the border between Zimbabwe and Zambia. The Victoria Falls Bridge spans a gorge through which the Zamb...

My African media shoeboxes

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The month-long African safari is in progress! Lightly-processed safari photos are accumulating on Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/p...
Saturday, June 14, 2014

F.AAPT

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Jolly? Sometimes. Good? Depends on who you ask. Fellow. Most indubitably. At least I will be, as of the American Association of Physics ...
Monday, June 09, 2014

Tower of paper

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Our end-of-year schedule included an amusing burp this year. It came on the last Thursday of the year. Students in periods 1-4 had already h...
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