Some Useful links & Resources
We are having virtual meetings every 1 or 2 weeks
on fridays, during the semesters.
To participate, join our e-mail list
(go to Join us! tab at the top). We send regular e-mails about it.
COVID-19 critical moments in early 2020:
During March 20 - May 22, the TYC physics community had weekly zoom meetings to share ideas and resources sparked by the sudden transition to remote teaching. Below you will find a link to what was shared.
Disclaimer: this is just a SHORT compilation of some essential links. It is NOT meant to be complete, as that would not be feasible for us to maintain. There are other organizations (ComPADRE, PhysPort, etc) that are focused on collecting more complete lists of resources. The lists below relate to the essential/favorites of the TYC community.
Keep these links!
PhysPort Supporting physics teaching with research-based resources https://www.physport.org
ComPADRE Resources and Services for Physics Education: https://www.compadre.org
PER bites Accessible Physics Education Research: http://perbites.org
PICUP Partenership for Integration of Computation into Undergraduate Physics: https://www.compadre.org/PICUP/
Physics for Life Sciences: https://www.livingphysicsportal.org
The Underrepresentation Curriculum Project: https://underrep.com/
STEMM Equity Achievement (SEA) Change: https://seachange.aaas.org/
TAP-L: a supportive community to ask questions about teaching equipment, demonstrations: https://physicslearning2.colorado.edu/pira/
AAPT resources: lab guidelines, recommendations for introduction of computational physics, guidelines for TYC physics programs, etc!
Valuable resources from the Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative: https://cwsei.ubc.ca/resources
Assessments: you could start by reading online materials linked to the book "Classroom Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Teachers" (1993) by Thomas A. Angelo & K. Patricia Cross. For example, here.
Educational Technology conference listings - an international large compilation: https://waset.org/educational-technology-conferences
MORE BELOW organized in lists! Click on the drop-down menus to expand!
Books
Open sources textbooks shared during TYC meetings:
Exploring Physical Phenomena: What Happens When Light from the Sun Shines on the Earth? by Emily van Zee and Elizabeth Gire https://open.oregonstate.education/physicsforteachers/
Spiral Physics (Paul D’Alessandris):
Basic info:https://www.compadre.org/precollege/items/detail.cfm?ID=5666
Textbooks for algebra-based & calculus-based, including labs: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/oulpsaytsjxvhzh/AADt7uvQWqNgOXOz5B-YrQXba?dl=0
Parallel Pedagogy (Pete Schwartz - pschwart@calpoly.edu)
Basic info: http://sharedcurriculum.peteschwartz.net/parallel-pedagogy/
Videos developed for calculus- & algebra-based courses: https://www.youtube.com/user/pvs242ful/videos
Contact Pete Schwartz for a link to PlayPosit (https://www.playposit.com/) [videos with embedded questions].
Video demonstrations, very brief, with no explanation of physics: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLp_v2L0Yv-cWEapQj-Ro8k7I2jIicq_XK
Textbook for calculus-based (Schwartz): http://sharedcurriculum.peteschwartz.net/textbook---mechanics-in-parallel/
Textbook for algebra-based (Schwartz): http://sharedcurriculum.peteschwartz.net/text-for-introductory-college-parallel-physics/
Textbook for conceptual (Stocker & Schwartz): http://sharedcurriculum.peteschwartz.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2020/05/Physics-in-Four-Part-Harmony-Full-Text-2019.pdf
“Physics in Four-Part Harmony 2020” textbook for conceptual or algebra-based (Stocker): http://sharedcurriculum.peteschwartz.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2020/07/Physics-in-Four-Part-Harmony-2020-reduced.pdf
Online homework for “Four-Part Harmony 2020”: https://www.myopenmath.com/
Course ID: 77520
Course name: Physics in Four-Part Harmony 2020
Enrollment key: 4PH2020 (or search the library for questions with a label that includes “4PH2020”)
Spiral-bound, color copies of “Four-Part Harmony 2020”: https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/dean-a-stocker/physics/paperback/product-4jv72m.html
Contact Dean Stocker (dean.stocker@uc.edu) for the LaTeX source code for “Four-Part Harmony 2020.”
Much of the information above on open source textbooks was initially compiled by Dean Stocker here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1olYyMe2KXSlmcklSoqAZ3XtZIyB_Rf1gBt_uiB1O9i8/edit?usp=sharing
"INTRODUCING NOETHER’S THEOREM IN CONCEPTUAL PHYSICS" (Joe Heafner): https://tensortime.sticksandshadows.net/archives/495
Demonstrations
Series of videos by Frank Cascarano (Foothill College): these are very good classroom demonstration videos.
Gravity: drop tower physics by Toby Dittrich
Video demonstrations connected to Dean Stocker (dean.stocker@uc.edu) instructions (see his textbook under Books): "very brief, with no explanation of physics": https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLp_v2L0Yv-cWEapQj-Ro8k7I2jIicq_XK
Videos developed for calculus- & algebra-based courses: https://www.youtube.com/user/pvs242ful/videos
Mastery Grading, Standards-Based Grading, or Competency-Based Grading
http://mctownsley.net/standards-based-grading/
https://www.masterygrading.com
https://arundquist.wordpress.com/2015/07/08/homework-in-standards-based-grading/
https://teachbrianteach.com/2013/07/22/sbg-grain-size-assess-the-small-evaluate-the-large/
https://fnoschese.wordpress.com/category/standards-based-grading-2/
Simulations and applets
Huge compilation of simulations (start your search here...): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jr4QIcIIkFFHhy5vASMRUUUMeu4iHqVbyaJoV9erqVM/edit#gid=578145117
https://www.geogebra.org/ (search for a topic, for example, beats, to see many simulations written by varied authors)
Circuits:
Some other good applets and lab resources:
Please also check for related materials posted under "Resources shared during zoom meetings" , and once inside that link, also check "Shared labs".
Do-it-at-home lab ideas
https://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/microbalance
Using cell phone apps:
please go to this page and scroll down to talk on April 10 (many links provided)
also look at the previous tab above entitled "Tools for remote teaching" regarding cell phone apps
Kits:
Please also look at the SHARED LABS link.
Astronomy
The Nebraska Astronomy Applet Project, Online Labs for Introductory Level Astronomy: https://astro.unl.edu/naap/
Organization Sponsored Astronomy:
Control your own robotic telescope and take a picture: https://mo-www.cfa.harvard.edu/MicroObservatory/
Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Stellar spectra: http://cas.sdss.org/dr7/en/proj/basic/spectraltypes/stellarspectra.asp
Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Types of Galaxies: http://cas.sdss.org/dr7/en/proj/basic/galaxies/classification.asp
Crowd sourced astronomy projects: https://www.zooniverse.org/projects?discipline=astronomy&page=1&status=live
Activities using Solar and Heliospheric Observatory data/images: https://soho.nascom.nasa.gov/classroom/for_students.html
Very comprehensive list of pencil/paper activities (Grade levels skews to a young audience, but can be modified for college courses): https://www.nasa.gov/stem-ed-resources/yoss-real-world-math.html
Compilation of classroom activities (younger audience): https://chandra.harvard.edu/edu/formal/index.html
Compilation of classroom activities (younger audience): http://newhorizons.jhuapl.edu/Learn/Activities.php
DYI Astronomy:
Sundial: https://skyandtelescope.org/observing/how-to-make-a-sundial/
Planisphere: https://in-the-sky.org/planisphere/index.php
Astrolabe: http://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu/AtHomeAstronomy/activity_07.html
Moon Calendar: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/learn/project/make-a-moon-phases-calendar-and-calculator/
Build Your Own (Paper) Spitzer Space Telescope: http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/explore/24-Models
Make Your Own Compass: http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/for_fun/MakeyourownCompass.pdf
Additional Activities: http://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu/AtHomeAstronomy/index.html
Please also check other Astronomy related posts under "Resources shared during zoom meetings", and once inside that link, also check "Shared labs".
Tools for remote teaching (apps with tools, LMS/CMS, etc)
Google Jamboard (create pages for each group with tasks/questions to practice, divide the class into breakout rooms and give them the jamboard url to work on): https://edu.google.com/products/jamboard/?modal_active=none
Example of a free app to convert photos to PDF (tell your students to install any free scanner app that can convert to PDF): https://acrobat.adobe.com/us/en/mobile/scanner-app.html
Photo protractor, as an example of free apps you can find to make measurements on videos/photos: just search.
Strobe light app
Cell phone apps for physics: https://www.vieyrasoftware.net
Calculator: https://www.desmos.com, http://s3.amazonaws.com/desmos/Desmos_Calculator_User_Guide.pdf
Grading papers online: https://www.gradescope.com/
A science journal: https://sciencejournal.withgoogle.com
Taking good notes: https://www.goodnotes.com, https://www.gingerlabs.com, https://www.liquidtext.net, https://www.onenote.com/
Remote clicker: https://socrative.com
Recording classes/lectures, screen-capturing software: https://screencast-o-matic.com (free for 15 min recordings), Camtasia: https://www.techsmith.com/video-editor.html
Inserting quiz questions in the middle of presentations: https://go.playposit.com, https://edpuzzle.com, https://nearpod.com/
Projecting iPad/cell phone on computer: https://www.airsquirrels.com/reflector
Personalized Learning Coaching and Development Toolbox: https://www.thepltoolbox.com/
TYC physics in the news
Two-year colleges teach physics to widening range of students (2016): https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/PT.3.3359
Linking physics in two-year colleges and physics professional societies (2021): https://doi.org/10.1002/cc.20457