Spring Meeting 2012 Call For Papers

Indiana Section of the

American Association of Physics Teachers

Call for Papers

The annual spring meeting of the Indiana Section of the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) will be held on Friday, April 13th and Saturday, April 14th at IUPUI in Indianapolis, Indiana.

On Saturday morning, we are organizing a contributed papers session. We need papers from all of you in order to make this program a success, so please consider sharing your ideas and experiences with other physics instructors. Plan now to attend and make a presentation in the paper session!

Suggested Paper Topics:

ü  A novel way of presenting an idea or a concept;

ü  A demonstration or series of demonstrations;

ü  A student project or activity for a physics class;

ü  Physics research;

ü  Physics education research;

ü  Any idea that would be useful to physics teachers at any level of instruction.

All abstracts must be received by Friday, March 23 to insure inclusion in the program. Abstracts received after March 23 may not be included depending on the number of abstracts submitted…or you may be asked to reformat your presentation so that it can be included in a possible poster session. If you submit multiple abstracts, please indicate the order in which you would prefer them to be considered for inclusion in the meeting. Please prepare your submission according to the following guidelines:

ü  All copy must be typed or entered electronically (preferred) into

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ZYVVTR3

ü  Including footnotes, text must be limited to 600 characters;

ü  Include author’s names, school or company affiliations, addresses, zip codes, and office telephone numbers for those not able to hear your paper in person;

ü  Please list a possible session topic that would be appropriate for your paper.

Presentations will be scheduled to run 15 minutes including questions. Special time requests will be considered if time permits. Please indicate any special equipment needed.

One final thought on topic selection:  In order to increase the number of physics presentations available at HASTI 2013, and our impact on developing future physics students, please consider a preparing a talk that could be helpful for elementary or middle school teachers. We encourage anyone submitting a talk for this spring meeting to plan present at HASTI in 2013.

Talks can be submitted at the following site: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ZYVVTR3

Or sent via email or postal to:

John Taylor, secretary INAAPT

Elkhart Memorial High School

2608 California Road

Elkhart, IN 46514

Email: jtaylor@elkhart.k12.in.us         (Please include “INAAPT abstract” in the subject line)