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Physics Teaching Resources
Physics Teaching Resources
Organizations for Physics Teachers Journals for High School Physics Teachers Textbooks in High School Physics Teaching Physics Teaching References Electronic Resources (CDs & Internet) Demonstration Handbooks Suppliers Grants Competitions Web Resources List Servers ISPP
Organizations for Physics TeachersOrganizations for Physics Teachers
Area Groups– Illinois State Physics Project (ISPP)– Physics Northwest– Capitol Area Physics Alliance– St. Louis Area Physics Teachers– Chicago ITQ Science Project
Regional Groups– Illinois Section of the AAPT (ISAAPT)– Chicago Section of the AAPT (CS-AAPT)– Illinois Science Teachers Association (ISTA)
National Groups– American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)– National Science Teachers Association (NSTA)
Journals for High School Physics Teachers
Journals for High School Physics Teachers
The Physics Teacher Physics Today American Journal of Physics Journal for Physics Education Research (AIP) Scientific American Science News The Science Teacher (NSTA) International Journal of Science Education Physics Education Journal of Research in Science Teaching Journal of Physics Teacher Education Online
(JPTEO)
Physics Textbooks Used (1997)
Physics Textbooks Used (1997)
Regular first-year physics:– Physics: Principles & Problems (Merril/Glencoe) 57%– Modern Physics (Holt, Rinehart & Winston) 20%– Conceptual Physics (Hewitt) 15%
Physics for non-science students:– Conceptual Physics 84%– Physics: Principles & Problems 7%
Honors physics:– Physics: Principles & Problems 25%– Physics (Giancoli) 19%– Modern Physics 15%
Advanced placement B Advanced placement C– Physics (Giancoli) 27% - Fundamentals of Physics– College Physics (Serway) 24% (Halliday & Resnick) 41%– Physics (Cutnell) 9% - University Physics (Sears)
19%
Physics Teaching References
Physics Teaching References
Aarons, A. B. (1990) A Guide to Introductory Physics Teaching
Aarons, A. B. (1997). Teaching Introductory Physics: All Inclusive Guide.
Kutliroff, D. (19xx) Teaching High School Physics
Osborne, J. & Freeman, J. (1989 Teaching Physics: A Guide For The Non-Specialist
Wilson, J. (1997). Conference on the Introductory Physics Courses.
Yurkewicz, W., Jr. (1985) A Guidebook For Teaching Physics
Electronic ResourcesElectronic Resources
Physics InfoMall CD Guidebook to constructing
inexpensive science teaching Equipment: Physics– Eisenhower National Clearinghouse CD– (file:///ENC/docs/docsfr.htm)
ISAAPT Resources ISU PTE “Resources” web page
http://www.phy.ilstu.edu/PTE.html
Demonstration HandbooksDemonstration Handbooks
AAPT Publications– A Demonstration Handbook for Physics (Freier &
Anderson)– A Potpourri of Physics Teaching Ideas (Berry)– String & Sticky Tape Experiments (Edge)
Commercial Publications– Teaching Physics with Real World Applications– Five Easy Lessons (Knight)
ISAAPT Guidebook Program
SuppliersSuppliers
PASCO Vernier Fischer
GrantsGrants
CPB Basic Elements of Grant Writing– http://www.cpb.org/grants.writing.html
CompetitionsCompetitions
Word Youth in Science and Engineering (WYSE)
Scholastic Bowl International Physics Olympiad (IPO) Junior Engineering and Technical
Society (JETS) Intel’s Science Talent Search
(Westinghouse) Duracell/NSTA Competition
Web ResourcesWeb Resources
Resources for Physics Teachers @ UNC– http://www2.ncsu.
edu/ncsu/pams/physics/PCEP/www/PCC/URLs.html
Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Mathematics and Science Education– http://www.enc.org
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)– http://www.iit.edu/~smile/index.html
See PTE.html website for more– http://www.phy.ilstu.edu/pte/
Discussion GroupsDiscussion Groups
Physhare– [email protected]
ISPPISPP
Illinois State Physics Project (ISPP) ISPP is a loose organization of High
School, College, and University Physics Teachers in the Chicago Area.
They meet once a month at a host school to discuss teaching methods, lecture demonstrations, and teaching techniques, and anything of interest in the area of Physics
http://condor.depaul.edu/~glietz/ispp/ispp.html