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MEETING DETAILS

Our next meting will be, April 28, 2012 at the University of Virginia's Physics building, Room 204. Admission is FREE. The Univeristy of Virginia's Physics Department is sponsoring the room and morning coffee. The Virginia Association of Science Teachers, www.vast.org, is sponsoring an afternoon make-and-take session. We will work on an authentic assessment designed around a CSI scenario involving projectile motion as featured in the Physics Teacher magazine. Along this same line of thought, we will be making a marshmellow "burp toy." and more. As always the meeting is free. We are in the process of asking for certain educational sponsors to provide door prizes. In past years we have given away over $2000 worth of physics teaching supplies. This year is shaping up to do it again. RSVP to the current VIP president, Tim Couillard. We have supplies for the first 20 who respond. We are looking for ways to stretch this to the first 25. The agenda will be posted as soon as it is decied upon.

 
What/Who is "V.I.P.?"

"V-I-P" stands for the Virginia Instructors of Physics -and physical science. VIP is a less than non-profit organization sponsored by the University of Virginia. It is an organization for all levels of physics and physical science education in the state of Virginia. Its purpose is to end the isolation felt by so many high school physics and physical science teachers. (As many physics teachers are the only ones in their county.) This is done through sponsorship of bi-annual meetings, a newsgroup on Virginia's PEN and a printed newsletter that comes two or three times year. Membership is free to all educators teaching in the state of Virginia.

Virginia Educators can join VIP for free.

Click here to send e-mail to the web site curator, twayne@k12albemarle.org, with

  1. your name,
  2. address of where you work,
  3. what you teach, and
  4. address of where you want the newsletter sent.

(Use the subject heading "Join VIP").

Any educator can join our e-mail discussion newsgroup. It too is free. Click on the link at the top of the page to learn more.

 

 

 
A special thanks to VAST and the Science Museum of Virginia for hosting our web site.