Fall 2025 Meeting of the Illinois Section of the AAPT
Rethinking Physics Education: Engaging the Next Generation of Scientists
October 17 and 18
Illinois College
Jacksonville, IL
We invite you to attend the Fall 2025 meeting of the ISAAPT. Come to learn more about physics, discover new tools and techniques for teaching physics, share your experiences via contributed presentations and Take Fives, and meet old and new friends.
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Registration will be at the Larson Lobby of Crispin Hall starting at 12:00pm on Friday and 8:00am on Saturday.
Invited Speakers
"Storytelling and Fables in Physics and Their Influence on the Education Process", Friday, October 17 at 6:30pm
Yurii Shylnov, Senior Lecturer in Physics, Illinois Institute of Technology
Stories and fables have long been part of how physics is taught and remembered. These narratives spark curiosity, hold the attention of both students and educators, and provide historical, cultural, and social context that enriches the learning experience. Beyond the classroom, such stories form a kind of professional folklore, a common culture among the community of physicists from all walks of life. Every physicist is expected to know not just the mathematics and concepts of physics, but also its shared lore. This talk explores how storytelling shapes the way we learn and teach physics and why these narratives remain essential for connecting scientific ideas to human experience.
Workshop
NGSS aligned labs with the IOLab – a multi-sensor device for K1-College
Morten Lundsgaard, Department of Physics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Description:
The IOLab is a wireless data acquisition system of comparable size and weight to that of a graphing calculator, and thus highly portable. With more than twenty sensors, students at all levels of high school physics can conduct experiments in mechanics, electricity & magnetism, waves, and thermodynamics. Setting up the real-time data collection with the iOLab is quick which makes it easy for students to collect a rich set of data to identify patterns, one of the Crosscutting Concepts in NGSS, and to test different lab designs when. completing a lab task.
In the workshop, participants will work through labs on force & motion, energy, and sound that align with the HS-PS2, HS-PS3, and HS-PS4 Performance Standards of NGSS.
To make the IOLab experience more authentic, participants should bring their own computer or Chromebook to the workshop.
For more information on the iOLab, see http://www.iolab.science.
Hosts: Meredith Kunz <meredith.kunz@ic.edu> and Josiah Kunz <josiah.kunz@ic.edu>
