Physics Teaching Resources

Organizations for Physics Teachers Journals for High School Physics Teachers Textbooks in High School Physics Teaching Physics Teaching References Electronic Resources (CDs & Internet) Demonstration Handbooks Suppliers Grants Competitions Web Resources List Servers ISPP

Organizations for Physics Teachers

Area Groups
Illinois State Physics Project (ISPP) Physics Northwest Capitol Area Physics Alliance St. Louis Area Physics Teachers Chicago ITQ Science Project

Regional Groups
Illinois Section of the AAPT (ISAAPT) Chicago Section of the AAPT (CS-AAPT) Illinois Science Teachers Association (ISTA)

National Groups
American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) National Science Teachers Association (NSTA)

Journals for High School Physics Teachers

The Physics Teacher Physics Today American Journal of Physics Journal for Physics Education Research (AIP) Scientific American Science News The Science Teacher (NSTA) International Journal of Science Education Physics Education Journal of Research in Science Teaching Journal of Physics Teacher Education Online (JPTEO)

Physics Textbooks Used (1997)

Regular first-year physics:
Physics: Principles & Problems (Merril/Glencoe) 57% Modern Physics (Holt, Rinehart & Winston) 20% Conceptual Physics (Hewitt) 15%

Physics for non-science students:

Conceptual Physics 84% Physics: Principles & Problems 7%

Honors physics:
Physics: Principles & Problems 25% Physics (Giancoli) 19% Modern Physics 15%

Advanced placement B
Physics (Giancoli) 27% College Physics (Serway) 24% Physics (Cutnell) 9%

Advanced placement C
- Fundamentals of Physics (Halliday & Resnick) 41% - University Physics (Sears) 19%

Physics Teaching References

Aarons, A. B. (1990) A Guide to Introductory Physics Teaching Aarons, A. B. (1997). Teaching Introductory Physics: All Inclusive Guide. Kutliroff, D. (19xx) Teaching High School Physics Osborne, J. & Freeman, J. (1989 Teaching Physics: A Guide For The Non-Specialist Wilson, J. (1997). Conference on the Introductory Physics Courses. Yurkewicz, W., Jr. (1985) A Guidebook For Teaching Physics

Electronic Resources
Physics InfoMall CD Guidebook to constructing inexpensive science teaching Equipment: Physics
Eisenhower National Clearinghouse CD (file:///ENC/docs/docsfr.htm)

ISAAPT Resources ISU PTE Resources web page

http://www.phy.ilstu.edu/PTE.html

Demonstration Handbooks
AAPT Publications
A Demonstration Handbook for Physics (Freier & Anderson) A Potpourri of Physics Teaching Ideas (Berry) String & Sticky Tape Experiments (Edge)

Commercial Publications
Teaching Physics with Real World Applications Five Easy Lessons (Knight)

ISAAPT Guidebook Program

Suppliers
PASCO Vernier Fischer Arbor Scientific

Grants
CPB Basic Elements of Grant Writing
http://www.cpb.org/grants.writing.html

Competitions
Word Youth in Science and Engineering (WYSE) Scholastic Bowl International Physics Olympiad (IPO) Junior Engineering and Technical Society (JETS) Intels Science Talent Search (Westinghouse) Duracell/NSTA Competition Department of Energy Science Bowl

Web Resources
Physics Applets (java)/Interactive Simulations
http://phet.colorado.edu/

Resources for Physics Teachers @ UNC

http://www2.ncsu.edu/ncsu/pams/physics/PCEP/www/P CC/URLs.html

Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Mathematics and Science Education

http://www.enc.org

See PTE.html website for more

http://www.phy.ilstu.edu/pte/

PSAs
Local Physical Science Alliances LPSA is a loose organization of High School, College, and University Physics Teachers in various regions around the state. They meet once a month at a host school to discuss teaching methods, lecture demonstrations, and teaching techniques, and anything of interest in the area of Physics