The World Year of Physics 2005 is discussed in the Jan. 2005 issue of
PHYSICS TODAY magazine (pages 28 - 29). Here's info for teachers.
copied/pasted in Jan. 2005 at
<http://www.physics2005.org/>
The World Year of Physics 2005 is a United Nations endorsed, international
celebration of physics. Events throughout the year will highlight the
vitality of physics and its importance in the coming millennium, and will
commemorate the pioneering contributions of Albert Einstein in 1905.
Through the efforts of a worldwide collaboration of scientific societies,
the World Year of Physics brings the excitement of physics to the public
and will inspire a new generation of scientists.
Clicking on "Teachers: Classroom Projects" reveals these activities:
* Reduced Gravity Experiments: High School Teachers, Research in Freefall
with NASA.
Climb aboard NASA's flying, reduced-gravity laboratory and run your high
school classroom's physics experiment.
* PhysicsQuest.
In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Albert Einstein's 'miraculous
year' of 1905, and coincidentally, also the 50th anniversary of his death
in 1955, APS invites middle school students from all across the United
States to solve a mystery. The solution to that mystery reveals the
location of a treasure somewhere in Princeton, NJ where Einstein taught and
continued to do research for the last 23 years of his life. Can your class
solve the mystery?
* Measure the Earth with Shadows..
Eratosthenes first measured the diameter of the Earth with an ingenious
technique using just sticks, shadows and a little mathematics. Now
students, collaborating with others in distant schools, will combine their
efforts to recreate this experiment on the largest scale ever attempted.
* United States Physics Talent Search.
Are you the next Einstein? You never know without trying! To start, why not
participate in the WYP 2005 Physics Talent Search? You can earn Talent
Search points by visiting a physics lab, making a poster, writing a play,
or doing a physics experiment in your school's science fair. If you earn 10
points, you earn the right to be called a "United States Physics Talent."
For more points, who knows? You might become one of the United States
"Physics Young Ambassadors."
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Visit also:
<http://www.wyp2005.org>
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Jane Jackson, Co-Director, Modeling Instruction Program
Box 871504, Dept.of Physics & Astronomy,ASU,Tempe,AZ 85287
480-965-8438/fax:965-7331 <http://modeling.asu.edu>
"Scientists explore the physical world for REPRODUCIBLE
PATTERNS, which they represent by MODELS and organize
into THEORIES according to LAWS." - David Hestenes
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