Event

TDSB Eureka Conference 8:45 - 3:20

Over 70 Workshops Including 3 presented by the OAPT Team

Roberta Tevlin
Date:	Friday, February 15, 2013
Place:	Toronto, Marc Garneau CI, 135 Overlea Blvd

Building Images with Ray Optics (Single Workshop)

Roberta Tevlin
TDSB Science Teacher, Danforth CTI
Target: Physics (Gr. 10)
Room # - 324 KTL Ref: AM-S1.01

How does light form images? Plan with a wide variety of hands-on activities using cheap materials to illustrate the different ways images can form. Explore teaching techniques that promote small group discussions for deeper understanding of each activity. Teachers will be provided with all the information they need to incorporate these activities into their own classrooms.

The Wave Particle Duality of Light (Double Workshop)

Roberta Tevlin
TDSB Science Teacher, Danforth CTI
Target: Physics (Gr. 12)
Room # - 324 KTL Ref: PM-D1.01

Wave or particle? Learn about a wide-variety of activities to make both the wave and quantum models come alive. Make a variable single-slit and observe Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle in action. Play with 3-D glasses and use these to understand quantum cryptography. Learn how to make a quantum eraser and use it to learn about entanglement. Learn how to play Quantum Tic-Tac-Toe to understand how a quantum computer works. Copies of Perimeter Institute’s resource ”The Challenge of Quantum Reality” which contains a 30-minute video, teachers guide and student activities will be available.

Beyond the Atom: Remodelling Particle Physics (Double Workshop)

Tim Langford
TDSB Science Teacher, Newtonbrook SS
Target: Physics (Gr. 12)
Room # - 229 KTL Ref: PM-D1.07

Be a bubble chamber detective: use classical physics to deduce what particles were produced in a hydrogen bubble chamber. Tame the particle zoo: use a simple set of rules to logically arrange the elementary particles in a table. Find top quark: use Fermilab’s original data to deduce the energy level of the heaviest quark. See how easy it can be to do with your students! All participants will receive a free DVD and Teacher’s Guide from the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.