DAMOP 2006 Educators' Day
  

Workshop Agenda
The tentative workshop agenda includes:

8:45 a.m. – Introductory Breakfast - get to know your fellow participants.

9:30 a.m. – Football Physics: How to Trick High School Kids into Getting Interested in Science - Professor Timothy Gay, University of Nebraska. Tim Gay has been introducing physics to probably the largest crowds ever to witness a physics lecture - at the halftime of University of Nebraska football games.

10:15 a.m. – Break

10:30 a.m. – Hands-On Workshop - Building Intuition about DC Circuits through Qualitative Experiment - Ed Lee, The American Physical Society. Participants will construct circuits with batteries and bulbs and capacitors, make qualitative observations, and then discuss the related pre-conceptions. Each participant will receive a kit of workshop materials.

12:00 p.m. – Lunch - Eat lunch and hob-nob with some atomic, molecular, and optical physicists.

1:00 p.m. – Time, Einstein, and the Coldest Stuff in the Universe - Dr. William D. Phillips, National Institute of Standards and Technology. Bill Phillips is a co-winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics for the development of laser cooling, which has lead to the coldest temperatures ever.

2:15 p.m. – How Things Work – Professor Lou Bloomfield, University of Virginia. Lou Bloomfield developed a wildly successful course - How Things Work - at the University of Virginia to introduce students to physics and scientific thinking with items from everyday life. The course remains among the most popular at UVa and has been adopted at many universities around the country. Lou will give ideas as to how to adapt this approach to high school students.

3:00 p.m. – Break

3:15 p.m. – Hands-On Workshop - Teaching about Geometrical Optics - Dr. David Taylor, Physics Teaching Resource Agent of the American Association of Physics Teachers.

5:15 p.m. – End. Participants who are able to stay past the workshop closing are invited to participate in the DAMOP Annual Meeting Welcome Reception at 6:00 p.m.