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A TIME for PHYSICS FIRSTAcademy for Teachers - Inquiry and |
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2007: 2D Motion, Energy & Electricity 2008: Electromagnetism, Waves & Heat Program Info: Committees Administrators' FAQs Math Recommendations Meeting Archives Proteges Newsletters Participant Info: 2007-08 Conferences Follow-Up Meetings Updates Directions Kit Loan Form Lesson Study Evaluation Info:Teacher Check Sheet Parent Consent Student Assent School District Invoice: Word format PDF format |
UpdatesUpdate February 28, 2008 Information and forms for the 2008 summer academy have been posted. Please click 2008 etc on the QuickLinks. Details about the April follow-up meeting will be posted as soon as sites have been confirmed. Presentations from Interface 2008 are available through the"Meeting Archives" link Update January 9-12, 2008 Happy New Year! Information about the February 23, 2008 follow-up meeting has now been posted. The Unit 5 solution rubric has been updated, and is now worth 55 points. Make sure to download and use this new version! You might have noticed that the login part of the website was not working over winter break. It has now been fixed. If you still get a "page not found" message when you try to log in, clear your cache (in many computers, hold the control key down and hit the page refresh button). We are working on restoring all files. If you find an error or a missing file, please let Sarah Hill know. Check out the new resource page on Lesson Study (link on left), which will be useful for your class in Winter 2008. Solutions to practice problems for Units 6, 7 and 8 are now posted behind the login. The kit loan form is now behind the login. Update December 4, 2007 The application to present at the Boston NSTA conference has been posted on the Conferences page. Deadline: Dec 11, 2007. Summer 2008 Professional Development Workshops at the McDonald Observatory in Fort Davis, Texas:
The following workshops have fees paid by McDonald Observatory funders and
The application deadline for free workshops is February 15, 2008. To apply and get more information visit the McDonaldObservatory website or contact Marc Wetzel at 432-426 3672 or wetzel@astro.as.utexas.edu Update November 5, 2007 The front pages of the pre/post tests have now been updated to indicate the maximum possible score for each unit test. Here is a summary for your information: Unit 1 – 55 points Please report your raw test scores to Marty. Note: Tests for Unit 2 have been updated to remove a title on a graph in Prob 1. Please use the new version if you have not already given Unit 2 tests. Update October 25, 2007 Please check the total score on the pre- and post-tests before you calculate percentages to report to the evaluators. Sound obvious? Yeah....unfortunately the front page of the Unit 1 test says it is a 50 point test, while it is actually a 55 point test. Trust a physics prof to get the totals wrong!! Update October 11 and 16, 2007 Student Assessments and grading rubrics for all 9 units are now on the website (behind the login). Year 2 participants must send their parent consent and student assent forms, graded pre-post student tests and the pre-post scoring sheet to Marty Henry. Proteges must send them to Sara Torres. Be sure to send them in as you complete each unit. April and August 2007 Newsletters are now posted on the website in .pdf format. Feel free to download and print them. If you wish to have a small number of copies similar to those you received at the October follow-up meeting, please contact Sarah Hill. We will be mailing you the promised document cameras and computer speakers in the next couple of weeks. Units 1-9 GLE correlations have been uploaded (behind the login). Update August 21, 2007 Solutions to unit IX (Electrical Circuits) practice problems are on the website (behind the login). The solutions are upl aded as two files (practices 1-7 and 8-11 - too large to upload as a single file! ) Please note the earlybird registration deadlines posted on the Conferences page. The STOM deadline is Sep 20. Update August 13, 2007 By now, you should have received your 2007 Physics First CD, Units 1-9. The CDs contain a truckload of information, including the eagerly-awaited PACING GUIDES, which are at the end of each unit, and called “Recommended Timelines” in each table of contents. Also, please note that Units 1-4 are updated from last year’s version. Behind the log-in you will find: Information on the October 6 Follow-up Meeting has also been posted. Update April 2, 2007 Math Teacher and Administrator applications for the 2007 academy are available. Update March 8, 2007 Details of the March 31 follow-up meeting are now on the follow-up meetings page. Update Feb 21, 2007 Summer 2007 Professional Development Opportunities: Update Feb 15, 2007 Equipment and materials list: The first draft of the equipment and materials list (date 02-15-07) has been posted behind the login (see Physics First Year 1 page, box 6, Resources 2006-07). This list is still in draft form for 2007. It includes asll the equipment in the 2006 kits, and the "expensive" equipment for Units 5,6, and 7. The and I will be posting updates periodically. Questions? email Sarah Hill or Meera. Update Jan 25, 2007 IMPORTANT DEADLINES AND DATES: Update Jan 12, 2007 Due to the icy weather in KC, Springfield and Columbia, and possibly in STL, the Jan 13 follow-up meeting has been cancelled. Since we did not have a designated bad-weather date set in advance, this meeting will not be rescheduled. The next follow-up session will be on March 31, as previously planned. Update Dec 18, 2006 Solutions to practice problems for Units 1 and 2 have been posted (behind the login). Update Jan 19: These files became invisible temporatitly while our website upgrades were in process. They are back on the front page again. Summer 2007 Professional Development Opportunities at the University of Texas McDonald Observatory Update Nov 13, 2006 Code Update: Protege info has been updated and the Protege Application form is now available. Unit 4 GLEs have been added to the resources (please login). Update October 26, 2006 We are currently working on transferring the primary account on the login part of the website. Changes made/documents uploaded during the changeover will not be saved.We appreciate your patience during this transfer. You might experience difficulty accessing the website during this period. We'll keep you posted... Update September 5, 2006 Solutions and Grading Rubrics to Units 1 and 2 have been posted on the website (behind the login). Please download the current version of Unit 2 tests - there has been a correction made on a small error on one of the problems. Preliminary information about the addition of proteges has been posted. If you have a colleague who is interested in taking part in the Physics First program, please inform them right away - they will need to start PLT participation asap. Update Aug 22, 2006 A TIME for Physics First CDs were mailed to you on August 8. We hope you are enjoying them! Parent and Student Consent forms and Student pre- and post- Assessments for Units I and II were placed on the A TIME website (behind the login). We expect to post solutions and grading rubrics soon. Update August 3, 2006 We hope that you have stayed cool since you finished up the Acadmey. I think we did an outstanding job of ordering good weather for you when you were here! We know that you are anxiously awaiting your A TIME for Physics First CD. The six academy instructors are in the final stages of adding and editing the teacher notes produced by all of you during the academy. We are also "cleaning up" the little bugs that plagued the images in these large files (turned out to be no small task). Our current schedule is to mail the CDs to you next week. The student assessments for Units 1 and 2 are also undergoing their final edits, and we expect to send them to you in the next couple of weeks too. |
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