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AAPT Update 1999 Number 11
The following message is from the Executive Office of the American
Association of Physics Teachers, College Park, Maryland.
*************Contents*************
1)BARBARA LOTZE SCHOLARSHIP FOR FUTURE TEACHERS
2) AAPT HOLIDAY CATALOG
3) PHYSICS OF FOOTBALL AT UNL ON ABC NEWS
4) NEW EDITOR FOR THE PHYSICS TEACHER
5) THE ACTIVITY BASED PHYSICS INSTITUTES
6) UNIVERSE IN THE CLASSROOM 2000
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1) BARBARA LOTZE SCHOLARSHIP FOR FUTURE TEACHERS
Deadline: December 1, 1999
Barbara Lotze Scholarship For Future Teachers: This $2,000 scholarship is
available for an undergraduate student in, or planning to enter, physics
teacher preparation curricula or a high school senior planning to enter
such curricula. For an application and information on how to apply,
please
contact the Programs Department at AAPT, 301-209-3344, aapt-prog@aapt.org.
ABC News is going to do a 6-minute segment on Prof. Timothy J. Gay's
"Physics of Football" series that has been produced this fall for the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln football games. Tim is a senior physics
professor at Nebraska, active in experimental atomic physics. The
segment
is scheduled for the ABC Evening News, Friday, November 12. The segment
will highlight Tim's role as teacher, researcher, and advocate of physics
for the public. Dr. Gay gave one of the plenary talks at the AAPT meeting in
Lincoln in 1998.
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4) NEW EDITOR FOR THE PHYSICS TEACHER
AAPT invites applications, inquiries and nominations for the position of
Editor of The Physics Teacher (TPT), with an appointment to begin in
summer
of 2000.
For additional information, contact Professor Thomas L. O'Kuma, chair of
the search committee, at Department of Physics, Lee College, Baytown,
Texas,
77520, (281)-425-6522, or by e-mail at tokuma@lee.edu
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5) THE ACTIVITY BASED PHYSICS INSTITUTES
The Institutes are designed for High School Teachers (Grades 9-12) who
teach physics and/or physical science courses and School Administrators.
Teams are especially welcome. Over the course of the two summers,
participants will learn to adapt activity-based curricula to state and
national standards, to implement new teaching methods based on physics
education research, to use computer tools for inquiry, to assess new
pedagogical techniques, to overcome implementation barriers, and to become
leaders in local educational reform. Participants will receive sample
curricular materials, a $1000 stipend upon completion of both Sessions I
and II of the Institute, free room and board at each session, up to $200
assistance each summer for travel to Institute sites, and opportunities
for
graduate credit or ContinuingEducation Units (CEU)
or contact: Gail Oliver, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Dickinson
College, Box 1773, Carlisle, PA 17013, Office: (717) 245-1845,Fax: (717)
245-1242, Email: oliver@dickinson.edu. Application deadline is February
14, 2000.
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6) UNIVERSE IN THE CLASSROOM 2000
Universe in the Classroom 2000, a national workshop on teaching astronomy
in grades 3-12, will be offered at the Pasadena Convention Center,
Pasadena, CA, on July 13-16, 2000, as part of the 112th Annual Meeting of
the
Astronomical Society of the Pacific. The workshop will include a series
of
sessions for teachers who are just starting to teach a unit on astronomy,
as
well as a strand of innovative ideas and updates for veteran science
teachers. Teachers who may be a bit nervous about teaching are encouraged
to attend. For more information and a registration packet contact the
Astronomical Society of the Pacific at 415-337-1100 x 100, Email:
meeting@aspsky.org, or write to: Universe in the Classroom 2000, A.S.P.,
390 Ashton Ave., San
Francisco, CA 94122.
The American Association of Physics Teachers
One Physics Ellipse
College Park, MD 20740-3845
Voice: 301-209-3300
Fax: 301-209-0845
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