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– physhare@lists.psu.edu

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