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We’re looking for a couple of great teachers….
My school, St. Andrew’s School in Delaware, is looking for both a full time physics and a full time math teacher for 2013-14. St. Andrew’s is an outstanding coeducational 100% boarding school situated...
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A great visit to Saint Ann’s
Today I had the pleasure of traveling up to Saint Ann’s School in Brooklyn (my first trip to to see a dear internet friend, Paul Salomon, and meet a few of his amazing colleagues. One of the great...
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A collaboration between dance and physics
My school has the most amazing dance teacher. Dance is a relatively new program at the school, but I’m constantly amazed by the incredible work his students are doing and all ways he’s added to our our...
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Plot.ly, the new graphing hotness
I’ve written in the past about the wonderful graphing program that is OmniGraphSketcher, and I have also proselytized about LinReg, a bare bones free graphing program from Pomona College that we use in...
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Connecting Near and Far with the Innovative Teaching Collaborative
One of the more fulfilling things I’ve participated in this spring is the launching of an Innovative Teaching Collaborative at my school. We’ve got a group of 20 or so faculty who meet monthly as a...
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Book Review: Angry Birds Furious Forces!
Now that the year is over, and I’m starting to settle into the summer, it’s time to get back into my blog rhythm, something I’ve been trying to do for a few months now. This post marks my first...
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Intro Physics Redesign: Peanut vs Battery
Next year, I’m going to be returning to full time physics teaching. I’m sad that I won’t be able to teach math, but I’m also very excited by the getting back into teaching physics more, and most...
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Modeling and Robots—on a Mac!
I’ve written a lot about the value of computational modeling and physics. To me, it’s a natural fit in the modeling physics curriculum to give students a tool that allows them to create and explore...
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Intro Physics: Essential Understandings for Energy and Rough Outline
I’ve been doing a bit more work with the Intro Physics course, and I think I’ve come away with two big ideas I want students to understand after our first unit. We ean model the flow of energy as flows...
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More on energy: Transforming a modeling problem to gain deeper insights about...
A comment on my last blog post from Neal reminded me of a problem that is part of the canon of the modeling curriculum: Another idea related to energy scales and the energy density of gasoline… Try...
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A free body diagram challenge: the constant velocity buggy
Here’s a deceptively hard free body diagram problem: draw a free body diagram for a motorized cart moving at constant velocity. Even though these constant velocity buggies are staples of the first...
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Amazing metacognitive manifesto on learning physics
A couple of weeks ago I came across this incredible Quora post by physics grad student Mark Eichenlaub in response to the question: Do grad students remember everything they were taught in college all...
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Revising a BFPM bridging activity-the cinder block in the box
Matt Greenwolfe has an outstanding bridging activity to help students move develop the balanced forces model and see a synthesis between system schemas, free body diagrams and velocity vs time graphs....
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Profile of a visionary first faculty day
I‘ve still got a few more weeks until school starts, but today I really enjoyed following tweets from my friend @boadams1, as he starts his new position at Mt. Vernon Presbyterian School. MVPS’s...
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CVPM buggy lab with computational modeling
The buggy lab is a staple of modeling and many other physics classes. Take a bunch of tumble buggys, modify a few to run slow (short one of the batteries by wrapping it in foil), and then send students...
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A heat transfer mystery
My Intro Physics class started the year with energy, and we incorporated the possibility of heat transfer between the system and surroundings from the very beginning. Our first experiment was to...
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UBFPM Paradigm Labs
I’m in the market for new ideas for a paradigm lab for the unbalanced forces unit, so I turned to twitter, and as usual, the awesome physics teachers of the twitter sphere did not disappoint. I’ve put...
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A visit from Eugenia Etkina
Last week we had the great honor of having PER legend Eugenia Etkina visit our department for the day to coach our faculty and talk about physics teaching. It was an incredible day. Immediately upon...
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Starting conversations about learning and grades with textexpander
We write comments 3 times a year and give grades at the quarter and end of the semester. One of the things I dislike about this process is the tremendous amount of lag between me writing a comment or...
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A great faculty meeting on the CWRA+
About a week ago, I asked twitter the following question: As expected, faculty meetings aren’t a beloved institution for teachers. But there are bright spots: I, too, have hopes that faculty meeting...
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