AAPT/PTRA SUMMER INTERNSHIP Patrick Mangan MY PROJECTS v Contact - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

AAPT/PTRA SUMMER INTERNSHIP Patrick Mangan

MY PROJECTS v Contact network of US STEM-focused high schools v Organization of the NGSS v PTRA resource document updates v Work with new AAPT staff member

CONTACT NETWORK v Network of STEM-focused high schools across the US • US News & World Report list of top STEM Schools • National Consortium for Specialized Secondary Schools of Mathematics, Science and Technology (NCSSSMST) v Organized by state and region v Physics contacts at each school (teachers, etc.) • Contact info taken from school websites

NEXT GENERATION SCIENCE STANDARDS v Task: Arrange the NGSS in a way that is useful to physics teachers v Flow chart of the physics-related performance expectations • To see how well they lead into one another • To see how cohesive the standards are altogether

HS-PS1-3 MS-PS1-1 3-PS2-1 KS-PS2-1 HS-PS1-8 MS-PS1-3 KS-PS2-2 3-PS2-2 MS-PS1-4 3-PS2-3 HS-PS2-1 MS-PS1-5 3-PS2-4 HS-PS2-2 MS-PS1-6 HS-PS2-3 HS-PS2-4 MS-PS2-1 4-PS3-1 HS-PS2-5 MS-PS2-2 1-PS4-1 4-PS3-2 MS-PS2-3 1-PS4-2 HS-PS3-1 4-PS3-3 MS-PS2-4 1-PS4-3 HS-PS3-2 4-PS3-4 MS-PS2-5 HS-PS3-3 4-PS4-1 4-ESS3-1 MS-PS3-1 HS-PS3-4 2-PS1-1 4-PS4-3 HS-PS3-5 MS-PS3-2 2-PS1-3 MS-PS3-3 HS-PS4-1 2-PS1-4 MS-PS3-4 HS-PS4-2 MS-PS3-5 5-PS1-1 HS-PS4-3 5-PS1-3 HS-PS4-4 MS-PS4-1 1-PS4-4 1-ESS1-1 1-ESS1-2 5-PS1-4 MS-PS4-2 HS-PS4-5 2-ESS2-1 2-PS1-2 5-ESS1-1 5-PS2-1 MS-PS4-3 5-ESS1-2

PTRA DOCUMENTS v PTRA-Physics Teaching Resource Agents v Identified parts of old PTRA documents that needed updating • NGSS • Pedagogy v Additions to some documents • Sections on electronics

EXTRA WORK v Worked with new AAPT staff member (Rebecca Vieyra) v Compiled list of physics teaching resources for elementary school classrooms v Found a lack of resources for younger grades

FINAL THOUGHTS v The contact network will be a good resource for AAPT to communicate with STEM-focused high schools v The flow chart will be a good resource for teachers in districts/ states adopting the NGSS v Physics is under-represented in elementary science education

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS v AAPT Staff v SPS Staff v Fellow 2015 SPS Interns