Spring 2014 Meeting of the Illinois Section of the AAPT

"Laboratory Instruction in Physics and Astronomy"

March 28-29, 2014
Physics Department
Illinois Wesleyan University
Bloomington, Illinois 61701

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The goal of this meeting is to have a broad conversation among Illinois physics and astronomy educators about the status, the state of the art, and the emerging future of laboratory instruction and demonstrations at all levels, ranging from high school to graduate school.

The registration table will be in the Atrium of the Center for Natural Science (building 7 on the campus map). At the registration desk, please pick up your temporary parking tag; this will be valid for both days. On Friday, do not park in faculty lot F2 which is across the street from CNS. On Saturday you may park in any lot.

Tours of our new 11-inch Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope. These tours will be given on Friday at 5:30 pm by physics majors who have done research in astronomy. The observatory is on campus. The telescope is used for general education courses and for an upper level laboratory physics course.

● Possible tour of the observatories at the Sugar Grove Nature Center on Friday after the banquet. If you would like to join this tour, please contact Carl Wenning at carlwenning@gmail.com for details.

Invited Speakers

"Beginnings and Endings: Using labs for introduction and assessment", Friday at 3:00
Diane Riendeau, Deerfield High School, Deerfield, Illinois

"Interactive Online Laboratories in Intro Physics Classes", Friday at 3:30
Mats Selen, Physics Department, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

"Support for Updating Instructional Labs (and Demonstrations)", Friday at 7:15
Gabe Spalding, Physics Department, Illinois Wesleyan University

"Lab Physics Instruction in Two Year Colleges", Saturday at 10:00
Anthony Escuadro, Physical Sciences Department, Harold Washington College, Chicago

Host - Narendra Jaggi, Physics Department, Illinois Wesleyan University, njaggi@iwu.edu