Thursday, October 30, 2014

Notes from October 25th Meeting

TAPT,

We had a really great meeting, with lots of good discussion on Saturday. I am attaching some information from some of the presenters. Everyone was excited about all of the presentations, and we agreed that we should have this format (15-minute presentations) once per semester.

Fritz’s recommendations: Powers of Ten in Time, by d’Hooft
Arrival of the Fittest, Wagner
Category Theory for the Sciences

The talks were great and stimulating. Dawn Pelayo’s boat project included bunch of buoyancy activities, including a measurement of lung capacity. For more information, you can email Dawn: Dawn Pelayo dawnp@cityhighschool.org.

Demian Quiroz talked about group exams, very interesting. His powerpoint and an example are attached.

Lynne Gillette is very excited about Direct Measurement videos. A write-up and a few worksheets are attached.

Lisa got everyone talking about communication with your students and with parents. I can’t even summarize it, but our new blog will be a start. She keeps a blog for her class, then students can search on key words. It’s very helpful. [added by Lisa: my slideshow is here]

Fritz showed some Java applets, and some are translated now into html so they are more usable. Website is walter-fendt.de. It’s from Denmark. Fritz also showed the use thin dowel rods as graphing tools.

Rob Purington showed some egg drop results. He recommends car crash videos from Insurance Institute of Highway Safety.

I know everyone gets very busy around this time. I am too, so I will make this short.

Our next meeting is December 6th, at J.D. Garcia’s house. DaNel Hogan will talk about STEMazing, the Pima County STEM initiative, of which she is the director.

Hope to see you then. Reminders will follow.

Karie

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