Workshops

Students love the bizarre ideas of General Relativity: curved space, black holes, wormholes etc. Even though General Relativity is not explicitly part of the curriculum, it can form a one-class enrichment when you are covering Special Relativity, Frames of Reference, Universal Gravitation, Euclidean Geometry or even grade-9 Astronomy.

General Relativity is famous for being very difficult but in this workshop you will see how an introduction to the subject can be very student-centered and non-threatening. This will be an active, hands-on workshop in which you will be exploring General Relativity using balloons, plastic bottles and other pieces of high-tech equipment. Teachers who already teach some General Relativity are especially welcome to share their ideas and resources. Let me know if you want to contribute to this session.

Roberta Tevlin has been a physics teacher at Danforth C. T. I. in Toronto for 11 years. She attended an Einstein+ Workshop at the Perimeter Institute a few years back and since then has been working on ways to make modern physics more accessible to high school students. (She also plays trombone in a band every Saturday afternoon in a bar not too far from this year's conference.)