Workshops
Spring Meeting of the Illinois Section of the AAPT
University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois
Friday, Mar. 30, 2012

Designed primarily for high school physics teachers, this workshop will provide a short but meaningful introduction to the Modeling Method of Instruction. Participants will discover Newton's second law of motion using a "jigsaw" approach.

Activities will be conducted to find acceleration as a function of mass and as a function of force using controlled experiments. Vernier's Graphical Analysis will be employed, and whiteboarding will take place. Learn more about Modeling now, and plan to attend one or two free Modeling workshops at Illinois State University this coming June. Workshop limited to 12 participants.  Free

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11:00-12:00

The quantitative and critical reasoning skills obtained from studying physics has often been touted as an excellent base for success in a wide variety of fields. Additionally, studies by the Kaufmann Foundation have shown that the majority of new business ventures are started by people that do NOT have a business degree. Since a significant number of new businesses fail in the first few years, the question then becomes what information may we supply new entrepreneurs (physicists in particular) to improve their prospects of success.

At Illinois State University, we are proposing a new general education course entitled, "The Entrepreneurial Mindset". In the course we break down entrepreneurial thinking in terms of processes and give the students opportunities for experiential learning.

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