Fall 2026 Meeting of the Illinois Section of the AAPT
"Physics in the Community"
October 16-17, 2026
Black Hawk College
Moline, IL
We invite you to attend the Fall 2026 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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On-site registration and check-in information will be coming soon.
Invited Speakers
Friday, October 16
Plenary/Banquet speaker (Public Talk) - Paul Kwiak, University of Illinois.
Workshops
NGSS aligned labs with the IOLab – a multi-sensor device for K1-College
Morten Lundsgaard, Department of Physics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Saturday, October 17 at 1:00pm
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 https://www.iolab.science/running-application.html and http://www.iolab.science.
Host: Doug Davidson (davidsond@bhc.edu)