To sign up for periodic email announcements about our workshops and other events please fill out THIS ONLINE FORM. Please pass this link on to any new Physics teachers in your building.
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Update as of May 22, 2024:
David Denton, the Lead Test engineer for Eaton’s Gubany test lab in Ellisville MO has invited us to their electrical low-voltage/high-current test lab. The facility is one of a handful in the world that is capable of producing 300,000 amps of electricity for testing. They will blow things up with electricity!
Join us for a free tour and demonstrations that includes lunch on July 8th from 11am-1pm.
Interested? Sign up HERE.
Questions? Email Jen Meyer at jmeyer3@parkwayschools.net.
Update as of February 23, 2024 on SLAPT WASH U Physics Contest:
The contest will occur on 4/20/24. Please share the following Google Form with your students to register! https://forms.gle/
The tests will take 2 hours, from 10:00 am until 12:00 pm. The exams will then be followed by a 1-hour lunch break with free pizza/refreshments. A student geared presentation on a higher education in physics will start at 1:00 and end by 1:30 pm with a quick awards ceremony starting directly after.
The test and awards ceremony will take place in the physics department (Crow Hall). The department is in the northeast section of Washington University's Danforth Campus. Parking is free on the weekends in the East End underground garage. Enter the garage from the Wrighton Way and Forsyth intersection or the Forest Park Parkway and Hoyt intersection.
If you have any concerns or urgent questions about the test, feel free to email to Chong Zu, zuchong07@gmail.com or Nicolas Dronchi, n.dronchi@wustl.edu.
** SLAPT 23-24 planning meeting **
May 20, 2023 10am-12pm ----- SLAPT 23-24 planning meeting
Based on the When2meet results, the SLAPT planning meeting will be on Saturday May 20, 2023 from 10am-12pm. Thanks to Gene for hosting! Location will either be at an independent school in Creve Coeur or a private location in Kirkwood. There will also most likely be a virtual option to join.
We need some volunteers for the SLAPT ‘excutive board’ and will plan some meetings/workshops for the 23-24 school year --- this is a great leadership opportunity in a fun and wonderful community! You get to collaborate with and learn from all the best physics teachers in the St. Louis Area :) Reminders and details will be sent out in the upcoming weeks.
Big thanks to Joe Milliano for the most recent SLAPT workshop!! Here is a shared folder with resources for the Circular Motion Lab.
Details about the December 3 January 21 Circular Motion Workshop is available below and HERE.
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Updates to below will be made when available......
Workshops and other events hosted and sponsored by other organizations:
American Modeling Teachers Association (AMTA): Modeling™ Instruction, under development since 1990 under the leadership of David Hestenes (Emeritus Professor of Physics, Arizona State University), corrects many weaknesses of the traditional lecture-demonstration method, including fragmentation of knowledge, student passivity, and persistence of naive beliefs about the physical world. Unlike the traditional approach, in which students wade through an endless stream of seemingly unrelated topics, Modeling ™Instruction organizes the course around a small number of scientific models, thus making the course coherent. It applies structured inquiry techniques to the teaching of basic skills and practices in mathematical modeling, proportional reasoning, quantitative estimation and technology-enabled data collection and analysis. Each summer, Modeling™ workshops are held all over the country. In 2014, almost 1200 teachers took one of the 75+ workshops in 20 states. The content areas of the workshops (depending on location) are mechanics (physics I), E&M, CASTLE, waves, light (physics II), chemistry I and II, biology, physical science, and we are proud to now offer workshops especially geared to middle school science teachers! On the website of the American Modeling Teachers Association (AMTA) we have a list of workshops that will be offered this coming summer, --- the information is subject to change so check the site every so often to see if now your state offers a Modeling™ workshop:
AMTA 2023 Summer Modeling Workshops: TBA
Virtual 2023 Workshops: Click Here for 2023 Virtual Spring Workshops
American Modeling Teachers Association AMTA) main page: http://modelinginstruction.org
June xx-xx, 202x - Nuclear Science & Engineering for Secondary Science Teachers A Three Credit Hour Faculty Development Course on the University of Missouri- Columbia Campus
No course has been announced yet for 2024 - check link below for any updates
Date: June xx-xx, 2023
Time: Daily 8a.m. - various
Location: Various on campus sites at University of Missouri, Columbia - including visits to area energy sites.
Mizzou has offered this course and related energy events for 40+ years. Several SLAPT members have attended in the past and have made many positive comments about it. Seats are limited, so inquire soon. Please visit the website linked here for details, application, and points of contact for further info. https://www.murr.missouri.edu/education/
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.
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St. Louis Area Physics Teachers - SLAPT Constitution