2015
STAV/AIP
Physics Teachers
Conference
It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how
Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature.
Niels Bohr
Program Changes
Sessions cancelled:
D4
The more success the quantum theory has, the sillier it
looks. Albert Einstein - 1912
Workshop A16: Synchrotron Tour
Car Pooling for A14?
To: Those who have booked the
A24 Synchrotron Tour, if you wish to car pool,
meet at the front after this session.
Karaoke Session: C5
Venues: Three adjacent Banquet Rooms (See map)
You are invited to move from room to room.
The programs are:
Karaoke Session: C5
Banquet Room: West (Change from newsletter)
• Satellites in Schools,
Paul Butler, Lauriston Girls' School.
• VYPT video A highlights package from 2014
• Flipped Classroom and Light
Spiros Liacos, Cheltenham Secondary College
• Physics Enrolments: Past, Present and Future
Dan O'Keeffe, AIP Ed Comm.
See ‘Physics News’ for details
Karaoke Session: C5
Banquet Room: Centre
• Physics Enrolments: Past, Present and Future
Dan O'Keeffe, AIP Ed Comm.
• Integrating CAD into the Astrophysics DS
Milorad Cerovac, King David School.
• VYPT video A highlights package from 2014
• A proposal for a Physics Demonstration Library
Kristian Grayson, Melb Uni.
See ‘Physics News’ for details
Karaoke Session: C5
Banquet Room: East
• Electronics with Yenka,
Paul Cuthbert, University High School.
• Space Camp
Paul Natoli, Ballarat High School.
• VYPT video A highlights package from 2014
• VCE Systems Engineering Colin Chapman,
Caroline Chisholm Catholic College.
See ‘Physics News’ for details
Wireless Access
Connect to SSID: guest-wireless
Username: ext-stav
Password: physics2015
The number of users online is limited, so please
log off when finished.
Laptop locker keys: Available at Registration.
Sessions: D7 & E6
Chief Assessor’s Report
Please Note: The purpose of this session to
provide feedback to teachers on how their
students performed on last year’s exam.
It is not the place for comment on the exam or
specific questions. Such concerns should be
directed to the Examinations Branch, VCAA.
Handouts
Conference Program with Map
AIP Newsletter:
• Events for students and teachers
• What does the Committee do?
• Map of website vicphysics.org
Conference folder:
• Notepad and Evaluation slips
• Brochures
AIP Travelling Scholarship
• The AIP Education Committee is offering a
scholarship to support one teacher to attend an
international Physics Teachers Conference
during 2014 and January 2016.
• The scholarship is worth up to $2000.
• Applications to AIP Ed Comm by 20th April.
• Check www.vicphysics.org/scholarship.html
for further details and possible conferences.
AIP Support for
Beginning Physics Teachers
Support for:
• First Year Outs
• Those returning to Physics teaching
• Those asked to take on a Physics class
Two Programs:
1. In-Service Program
2. Mentor Scheme
AIP Support of
Beginning Physics Teachers
1. In-Service Program
• Day in-service: Tuesday 31st March
• Venue: Camberwell Grammar School.
• Cost: None; Travel support for country participants.
• For details and to apply go to:
www.vicphysics.org/support.html
One does not, by knowing all the physical laws as we know them today, …
AIP Support of
Beginning Physics Teachers
2. Mentor Scheme
• The AIP Education Committee will fund several retired
teachers to work with ‘beginning physics teachers’.
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They will be available for one meeting during each of
Terms 1, 2, 3 and 4 and be available for regular phone
and email contact.
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To apply www.vicphysics.org/support.html
… immediately obtain an understanding of anything much.- Richard Feynman
Practical Activities Workshops
and Equipment Fair
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Full Day In-Service: Monday, 30th March
Venue: Camberwell Grammar School
Cost: None. Travel support for country participants
For details and to apply go to:
www.vicphysics.org/workshop.html
Second Hand Equipment
Schools that have requested equipment can
pick up their labelled items from the van in the
car park on the North side of John Monash
Science School (see map)
The equipment can be collected from 5pm
onwards.
Remaining equipment of a first come basis,
list next slide also from 5pm.
Second Hand Equipment
Equipment still available from 5pm includes:
• Electrical meters (analog)
• Mass of the electron kits w/o power supply
• Current balance kits
• Rheostats (15 ohm, 5 amp)
• Lenses and curved mirrors
• Connecting wires
• Electronic breadboards
• Slotted weights
• Air track accessories inc gliders, spark pens, etc
• Physics Texts and ASEP Booklets
Victorian Young
Physicists’ Tournament (VYPT)
For: Year 10 and 11 students, in teams of three.
What do they do?
• conduct three open-ended experimental
investigations,
• prepare reports, and ..
Victorian Young
Physicists’ Tournament (VYPT)
Then in competition in December…
• They describe and defend their methods,
results and analysis,
• They challenge the reports of other teams.
Victorian Young
Physicists’ Tournament (VYPT)
Topics for 2015
AIP 2014 Photo Contest
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Students may enter more than one photo,
Prize pool: up to $1000,
Closing date: First day Term 4,
Judging by panel.
See Display in Main Dining Room
AIP 2014 Video Contest
• Open to students in Victorian schools.
• Topic: Students are encouraged to video a discussion
between two or more students regarding Climate
Change in which some students ask FAQs and the other
students answer the questions explaining the Science
involved with or without visual aid, à la Veritasium
• Max: Three minutes of video
• Prize pool: up to $1000 per category
• Closing date: First Day of Term 4
If this sticker is blue, you're driving too fast
Physics Days at Luna Park
The dates for 2015 are:
Tues 3rd March
(FULL)
Weds 4th March
(FULL)
Thurs 5th March
(FULL) and
Fri, 6th March
(FULL)
Cost $23.95 per student. Open from 10:00am until 2:0pm.
Worksheets / videos are available
www.vicphysics.org/lunaworksheets.html
Special Feature:
• Synchrotron Tour before or after.
BOOKINGS CLOSED
Joining the AIP
Associate membership:
$103 per year
Benefits:
• Physics Teachers’ Conference discount
• ‘Australian Physics’ magazine, 6 per year.
• Reciprocal membership with Institute of
Physics (UK) among others (reduced rate for
joint membership).
http://www.aip.org.au/info/
AIP Education Committee
Who are they?
A committee of physics teachers, teacher
educators and academics.
When & where do they meet?
Next at University High School, 10th March,
5pm–7pm.
Teachers are encouraged to attend meetings,
contact Sue Grant, the chairperson at
susanmgrant1@bigpond.com
AIP Education Committee
What do they do?
• Liaise with VCAA on curriculum matters,
• Distribute an email newsletter to physics teachers
several times each term,
• Administer a website of resources for teachers:
www.vicphysics.org ,
• Prepare a detailed review of the VCE Physics Exam,
• Plan this STAV/AIP Physics Teachers Conference, and
other PD activities,
• Organise physics activities for students, such as the
Competitions and Physics Days at Luna Park.
AIP Education Committee
Who comes to meetings?
Gary Bass
Retired Theo Hughes
Monash University
Chris Bowen Caulfield Grammar (WH) Barbara McKinnon John Monash Sci S
Milorad Cerovac
Neil Champion
Gary Cohen
King David School Oscar Menuel
St Michael’s GS
Buckley Park SC Bronwyn Quint Hoppers Crossing SC
Retired Dan O'Keeffe
Retired
Paul Cuthbert University High School Alan Reynolds
Jonathan de Booy
Aust Synchrotron Frances Sidari
Sue Grant
Box Hill Institute Terry Tan
Kristian Grayson
Colin Hopkins
Retired
Lakeview SC
John Monash Sci S
Melbourne Uni Dianne Wilkinson
Bialik College
and you?
Box Hill HS
AIP Education Committee
Physics News by Email
An electronic newsletter is sent to over 1000
physics teachers about once a fortnight.
To be a recipient, email the AIP at
danok@bigpond.com
Useful resources from previous emails are at
www.vicphysics.org/news.html
Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible. Lord Kelvin
Physics: Know your world to change your world
Physics is great - 40 orders of magnitude can’t be wrong
Radio has no future. - Lord Kelvin
Physics is like sex, it produces valuable results, but that is
not why we do it. - Richard Feynman
Stand on the shoulders of giants - get a physics degree
X-rays will prove to be a hoax. Lord Kelvin
My goal is simple. It is complete understanding of the universe,
why it is as it is and why it exists at all. - Stephen Hawking