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STAO 2013 Presentations by OAPT Members
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| Date: | Thursday November 14, 2013 |
| Time: | 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm |
| Session: | 1311, All Stands, Grade 9-12 |
| Topic: | New Pedagogies for Science Teaching |
Pedagogies coming out of PER that will change the way science teachers teach will be discussed. JiTT, Peer Instruction, Interactive Demonstration, Interactive Simulations, Jeopardy Prob., Cognitive Based Ed., and White Board are just a few that will be described. | |
| Presenter: |  John Caranci : 34 Years Physics and Mathematics Teacher and Department Head; Awarded Life Membership for Outstanding Service; Ontario Physics Teachers Association; Published Poet – White Wall Review Literary Journal: Winner of the Raymond Chang Literary Award 2007 – Poetry; Senior Science Fellow - York Seneca Institute of Science, Technology, and Education, York University; Honours Specialist Physics Additional Qualification Instructor OISE; Physics B. Ed. Lecturer OISE; Author/Editor of many mathematics, physics and elementary texts; Scientists in School Elementary School Presenter. |
| Date: | Friday November 15, 2013 |
| Time: | 8:30 am - 9:30 am |
| Session: | 2013, All Stands, General Interest |
| Topic: | The Frilly Bits |
Presenting a variety of Science Demos that will increase the fun and drama of the science classroom. Presentation theory will be covered with these demos. |
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| Presenter: |  John Caranci : 34 Years Physics and Mathematics Teacher and Department Head; Awarded Life Membership for Outstanding Service; Ontario Physics Teachers Association; Published Poet – White Wall Review Literary Journal: Winner of the Raymond Chang Literary Award 2007 – Poetry; Senior Science Fellow - York Seneca Institute of Science, Technology, and Education, York University; Honours Specialist Physics Additional Qualification Instructor OISE; Physics B. Ed. Lecturer OISE; Author/Editor of many mathematics, physics and elementary texts; Scientists in School Elementary School Presenter. |
| Date: | Friday November 15, 2013 |
| Time: | 8:30 am - 9:30 am |
| Session: | 2017, Physics, General Interest |
| Topic: | Art, Dramatic Play and Candy in Science |
| Materials: | Physics Workshop Materials |
Science emerges from creative thought and inspiration from nature. Concepts in physics will be explored through art, dramatic play and candy. Instructional strategies will be presented that may be modified for any science classroom! Let's play! | |
| Presenter: |  Lisa Lim-Cole : Lisa Lim-Cole has been teaching physics since September 2000 and is currently the Science Department Head at Uxbridge Secondary School. She completed her studies in Physics at McGill University and completed her Education degree at Queen’s University. Lisa is part of The Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics Teacher Network and has provided workshops across Eastern Ontario. Lisa is a strong believer of subject based PD and continues to support teachers through various workshops. |
| Date: | Friday November 15, 2013 |
| Time: | 10:00 am - 11:00 am |
| Session: | 2117, All Strands, Grade 9-10 |
| Topic: | Brain-Based Modeling in Grade 9 Science |
Participants will work through an original suite of inquiry activities to build robust mental models of core Grade 9 Electricity and Chemistry concepts. This interactive workshop will model classroom-ready teaching practices derived from research. |
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| Presenter: |  Dave Doucette : Dave, once an innocent cognitive psychologist and chemistry teacher, was seduced by the evil lore of the physics empire a long time ago…well, actually, they made me teach physics, but the empire story is a far better lead! Since I was conscripted to teach a foreign subject like physics (I avoided it like the plague in university), I thought it best to seek mentorship. Found it in an OISE library aisle – a book by Arnold Arons ‘An Introductory Guide to Physics Teaching’ – the seminal book on physics education research (PER). Arnold and generous colleagues like Doug Abe, guided Dave along a fascinating journey to the dark side of physics education – oops, there we go again. Bottom line, Dave’s a ‘born again physicist’ – got a passion for teaching physics that just won’t quit. And he’ s preached that passion in >150 teacher workshops and numerous articles. It’s a calling. Like a Jedi - without the shmarmy light-sabre. |
| Date: | Friday November 15, 2013 |
| Time: | 10:00 am - 11:00 am |
| Session: | 2118, Physics, Grade 9-12 |
| Topic: | Solar Energy: An Engaging Approach for Teaching Voltage, Current, and Power |
With solar energy as a foundation, this workshop will provide an interesting approach to voltage, current, and how they are related to energy and power. A simple in-class activity will highlight the physics and engineering basis of solar energy. | |
| Presenter: |  Micah Stickel : Micah Stickel’s love of physics began with the exceptional teachings of Mr. Stock and Ms. Ness at Humberside Collegiate Institute in the west end of Toronto. Since then he has gone on to study electrical and computer engineering at the University of Toronto, receiving his PhD degree in 2006. In 2007 he joined the faculty of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Toronto as a lecturer. He has taught the second-year Electric and Magnetic Fields course numerous times and strives to bring the engineering realities into the classroom through demonstrations and discussions of current engineering developments of electricity and magnetism. |
| Date: | Saturday November 15, 2013 |
| Time: | 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm |
| Session: | 2311, All Strands, Grade 10 |
| Topic: | Perimeter Institute: What Good is a STEM Education? (9-10) |
Why should students interested in business or law take senior science courses? In this workshop, we will delve into the latest Perimeter Institute classroom resource exploring skills gained in STEM courses that are essential in any career. Free kits! | |
| Presenter: |  Kevin Donkers and Damian Pope : Kevin Donkers, a lead physics teacher in Waterloo Region, has been instrumental in the production and delivery of many of Perimeter’s educational products and programs. Kevin has shared Perimeter’s Go Physics program across Canada and works with students from around the world at Perimeter’s ISSYP each summer. Kevin is currently sharing his expertise on behalf of Perimeter full-time while on a year leave from a teaching position at Preston High School in Cambridge, Ontario where he coached football, rugby, and basketball.Damian Pope, Ph.D., creates educational content and delivers programs to students, teachers, and the general public. He combines his background as a researcher in the areas of quantum information theory and quantum foundations with a passion for communicating ideas to the wider community. His development of products and programs involves extensive collaboration with PI's many international researchers. |
| Date: | Friday November 15, 2013 |
| Time: | 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm |
| Session: | 2317, Physics, Grade 9-12 |
| Topic: | Physics Inquiry: Use of Classroom Discussions to Increase Excitement and Interest in Physics |
The “Physics Inquiry Workshop” at McMaster University, open to senior high school students, focuses on fun physics. Questions such as “What would happen if we could travel faster than light?” can help increase excitement in the Physics classroom. | |
Sara Cormier : Sara Cormier has a B.Sc. in Honours Physics and a M.Sc. in Experimental Polymer Physics. In her current position as Outreach Coordinator for Physics and Astronomy at McMaster University she has been able to focus on promoting physics and physics education to students of all levels. |
| Date: | Friday November 15, 2013 |
| Time: | 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm |
| Session: | 2417, Earth and Space, Grade 9-12 |
| Topic: | Hands-On Cosmology for Grade 9 Astronomy |
| Materials: | Physics Workshop Materials |
The Big Bang is an incredible story. In this workshop you will be introduced to a variety of activities that will help you and your students play with the observational evidence and the curved space-time that helps explain it. | |
| Presenter: |  Roberta Tevlin : Roberta has been teaching physics in Toronto for 25 years. She is rather fanatical about modern physics and Physics Education Research and spends her spare time looking for ways to combine them to make high school physics more exciting and inviting. She has given workshops to this end around special relativity, general relativity, particle physics quantum uncertainty and entanglement. She is a consultant for the Perimeter Institute of Theoretical and the coordinator of PI’s Teacher Network. In her spare spare time she plays New Orleans jazz at Grossman’s Tavern in Toronto |
| Date: | Saturday November 16, 2013 |
| Time: | 9:00 pm - 10:00 pm |
| Session: | 3017, Physics, Grade 9-12 |
| Topic: | Using Group Interactive Demonstrations to Model Wave and Light Behaviour |
Participants will take on the role of a wave crest or trough, and work in groups to act out such concepts as wavelength, frequency, and period. Participants will model wave behaviours like refraction interference and beats. | |
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James Ball : I have been teaching physics and science for the past 23 years. One of the reasons that my students have been successful in physics is that they see how it is applied in the real world. Every year my physics teaching style evolves as the result of implementing physics education research. My focus is on having the students actively learning rather than listening to me lecture to them . |
