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Join the nation’s largest meeting dedicated to the education of future physics teachers March 5-6, 2021 College Park, MD SAVE THE DATE Featuring: • Workshops on best practices • Panel discussions by national leaders • Networking opportunities • And more! phystec.org/conferences 2020 AAPT Virtual Summer Meeting Meeting Information ....................... 8 July 19–22, 2020 AAPT Awards ................................... 10 Plenaries ......................................... 14 Committee Meetings ....................... 17 Workshops ....................................... 18 Session Abstracts ............................. 24 PERC Information ............................ 131 Participants’ Index ........................... 132 ® American Association of Physics Teachers® One Physics Ellipse College Park, MD 2040 www.aapt.org 301-209-3311 Take your students out of this world... ...without a fieldtrip! An immersive digital planetarium is an effective, engaging way to teach 3D concepts. Digitarium® professional-grade inflatable planetariums are Excite students about easy to use and easy to share learning astronomy, across your school, college, or Earth science, and district. more. Permanent dome models also available. Learn more at DigitalisEducation.com ® 2 2020 AAPT Summer Meeting Bring the Lab to Your Students Vernier and Pivot Interactives give teachers and students the freedom to explore hard-to-replicate phenomena either at home or in the classroom. No matter what teaching looks like next year, this online learning environment can help your students better understand key physics concepts. Check the AAPT online program for more details about our virtual workshops: Pivot Interactives • Vernier Video Analysis on Chromebooks, Computers, For instructors looking for remote and Tablets learning options for science, • Introducing Pivot Interactives from Vernier Pivot Interactives is an excellent solution. GET YOUR FREE 30-DAY TRIAL Visit vernier.com/tpt-pivot VIRTUAL SUMMER MEETING 2020 July 19-22 ® Thank You to Our Meeting Sponsors AIP Statistical Research Center Digitalis Education Expert TA IBM Quantum Computing 4 2020 AAPT Summer Meeting VIRTUAL SUMMER MEETING 2020 July 19-22 ® Thank You to Our Meeting Sponsors Macmillan Learning PASCO Scientific Spreadsheet Lab Manual LLC Vernier Software and Technology July 19–22, 2020 5 NSF SBIR Phase I: Educational Technologies and Applications. July, 2019. Computer Science for All with Spreadsheet Modeling: Researching How Low-Cost Video Training for STEM Teachers Leads to High-Value Programming Skills for Students. Submitted by Spreadsheet Lab Manual LLC, Michael McConnell, Principle Investigator Abstract for the 116th Congress of the United States of America: This SBIR Phase 1 Project will seek to solve the problem of how to incorporate new and standardized approach to computer science instructional modeling experiences for students using a combination of video training, instructional materials, and assessment materials that can be accessed by teachers from an online platform to which teachers can contribute newly developed ideas for authorship credit and compensation. Models that simulate realistic behavior are usually inherently complex using mathematics such as calculus or differential equations. As a result, many teachers do not recognize the many possible ways that these models can be developed on spreadsheet programs. While teachers and students already can access and have baseline familiarity with spreadsheets, there exists many new computational modeling applications that can fundamentally change the nature of the way students learn Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) as separate subjects by unifying them into one instructional modeling experience. This study will develop and investigate methods of training inexperienced teachers in computational spreadsheet modeling that are designed to enable easy to follow pathways for teachers to deliver spreadsheet modeling experiences to their students with in-person training or having to develop and test their own student experiences. This will serve to expand the use of computer science in classrooms in compliance with the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and open up the realistic modeling capability intrinsic to calculus and differential equations, to high school students while using exclusively algebraic equations. This proposal will seek to develop, adapt, and assess the effectiveness of an inexpensive video-based demonstration and teacher training regimen that is intended to make delivering this instructional methodology to students happen quickly, efficiently and become self-sourcing by teachers from many different schools. This will be done by automating the training to keep cost to a minimum and maximize teacher time savings and the value added of the modern microprocessor to the student instructional experience of computational modeling on a spreadsheet. For a typical spreadsheet modeling objective, students follow procedures employing numerical methods (such as slope of lines, areas of trapezoids, difference equations, Euler's Method) incrementally over large numbers of cells (102-104) to build a realistic mathematical model on a spreadsheet. By doing this, the error associated with the numerical approach drops well below the error associated with model assumptions making it possible to model non-ideal continually changing variables with linearized assumptions. The computational power of the spreadsheet enables instantaneous replication of the linearized formulas, which when patterned properly with fixed and relative references, can produce pivot tables in which variables can be altered by students using inquiry and curiosity to investigate a model that they programed starting from a blank spreadsheet. By building off of a variety of curriculum aligned applications and crafting the instructional experience using a carefully tested pedagogy, teachers will be provided with high value skills to pass on to their students so they will be able to first program, then simulate, experiment and solve problems on a variety of new quantitative spreadsheet modeling scenarios in STEM classes. National Science Foundation Small Business Innovation Research (NSF SBIR) SLM Member Educators: Develop, Deliver, Share, Get Paid. 6 2020 AAPT Summer Meeting 19 20 21 July 19–22, 2020 7 Thank You to AAPT’s Sustaining Members The American Association of Physics Teachers is Special Thanks extremely grateful to the following companies who have AAPT wishes to thank the following persons for their generously supported AAPT over the years: dedication and selfless contributions to the 2020 Summer Virtual Meeting: American Institute of Physics Paper sorters: Arbor Scientific Janie Head Kelly O Shea Expert TA Nina Daye Morley Reed Prior Karen Jo Matlser Jonathan W. Alfson Klinger Educational Product Corporation Tommie Holsenbeck Diana Sachmpazidi Toni Sauncy Gary White Morgan and Claypool Publishers PASCO scientific Rice University Spectrum Techniques LLC Tel-Atomic Inc. Vernier Software and Technology AAPT Board of Directors Chandralekha Singh, President Tommi Holsenbeck University of Pittsburgh Vice Chair of Section Representa- Pittsburgh, PA tives Hardaway, AL Jan Mader, President-elect Great Falls High School Gabriel Spalding Great Falls, MT Illinois Wesleyan University Bloomington, IL Toni Sauncy, Vice President Martha Lietz Texas Lutheran University Niles West High School Seguin, TX Skokie, IL D. Blane Baker, Secretary Arlisa Richardson William Jewell College Chandler-Gilbert Community College Liberty, MO Chandler, AZ Thomas L. O’Kuma, Treasurer Gary D. White (ex officio) Lee College Editor, The Physics Teacher Baytown, TX Mel Sabella, Past President Richard Price (ex officio) Chicago State University Editor, Amer. Journal of Physics Chicago, IL Beth A. Cunningham (ex officio) David E. Sturm AAPT Executive Officer Chair of Section Representatives University of Maine Robert Hilborn (ex officio) Orono, ME AAPT Assistant Executive Officer Facebook/Twitter at Meeting We will be posting updates to Facebook and Twitter prior to and during the meeting to keep you in the know! Participate in the conversation on Twitter by following us at twitter.com/AAPTHQ or search the hashtag #aaptsm20. We will also be posting any changes to the schedule, cancellations, and other announcements during the meeting via both Twitter and Facebook. We look forward to connecting with you! Facebook: facebook.com/AAPTHQ Twitter twitter.com/AAPTHQ Pinterest: pinterest.com/AAPTHQ Photo Release: AAPT and its legal representatives and assigns, retain the right and permission to publish, without charge, photographs taken during this event. These photographs may be used in publications, including electronic publications, or in audio-visual presentations, promotional literature, advertising, or in other similar ways. 8 2020 AAPT Summer Meeting Nothing We Can Be Done Disagree About Cheating Online... Expert TA Academic Integrity Focus Homework Secure Assessment Timed Exams http://theexpertta.com/exam-security July 19–22, 2020 9 Awards 2020 Millikan Medal Awarded to David Cook AAPT has announced that David M. Cook will receive the Robert A. Millikan Medal during the 2020 Sum- mer Meeting. Cook is a pioneer in computational physics education and has rendered extraordinary service to AAPT on Area Committees, the Meetings Committee, AAPT representative to AIP Governing Board, and in the Presidential Chain. He has organized a computational physics conference and led computational
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