Session 06

Buffet Physics - a Feast of Ideas!

A. How to use Twitter to powerfully grow your professional learning network

B. Take your students (3U, 4U or 4C) to the ice rink to investigate force, momentum and torque! This activity helps the students dispense with misconceptions about connections between force and motion. I will share the prep work for the field trip and the assignments I have made for the students to complete while they are at the rink.

C. Sites like YouTube and Khan Academy make concept of the flipped classroom an extremely useful approach to enhance classroom experience. Rather than class time being used for knowledge transfer, this process takes place at home and class time is used for inquiry based activities, demonstrations, discussions and problem solving. One way to easily begin this process is using a very useful tool known as EdPuzzle.

Biographies

Adam Mills: I have been teaching Physics, Mathematics and Chemistry at the Secondary level for the last ten years. Through this time I have been actively involved with the International Baccalaureate Program and the appropriate use of technology in the classroom. Currently I am in the process of changing my physics classroom to a more inquiry based classroom using a flipped technique. I have funding to complete this process through the Teacher Learning and Leadership Program (TLLP) offered through the Ministry of Ontario. Outside the classroom I coach soccer and run a very active Math Club in which the students write contests for elementary school students and make school visits to help engage students with mathematics and science.

Raquel Carlow: "Recently retired high school physics teacher after 36 years. Currently Chair of Promotions and Social Media Committee of STAO "

Margaret Scora: I came to Ontario in 1987 from rural Manitoba to join her husband who was working on his Ph. D in physics at the U of T. With a B.Sc in Honours Physics and newly minted B.Ed in hand she joined the teaching staff at Msgr. Paul Dwyer CHS in Oshawa and has been there ever since! Her goal as a physics teacher has always been to give the students a lot of hands on experiences in physics in order to foster deeper understanding and develop critical thinking skills. Margaret is currently involved with the annual OAPT conference and hopes to continue learning along with her students.