The Caliper

Workshops

There are a number of spaces still available in the Chautauqua Courses on active physics learning coming up this spring and summer. Priscilla Laws, Ron Thornton, and David Sokoloff are offering these courses May 9-11 at Dickinson College and June 6-8 at University of Oregon. See http://www.engr.pitt.edu/chautauqua to register or for more information.

Modeling Workshops for high school and junior high teachers will be held this summer in Arizona, California, Hawaii, Kansas, Missouri, Wisconsin, Arkansas, Florida, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania. Workshops range in duration from 1-week (usually focusing on kinematics) to 4-weeks (thoroughly treat the pedagogy and content for the mechanics portion of a physics course). For detailed information, visit http://modeling.asu.edu.

LabVIEW Workshops
We will be offering a free, all-day workshop on using LabVIEW with Vernier LabPro on May 21 at our office. Also, we will be presenting a session on LabVIEW with LabPro at the AAPT meeting in August. See our LabVIEW workshop page or contact Dave Vernier at dvernier@vernier.com for details.

Summer Workshops for Computers and Handhelds
Join us for one of our one-day, summer workshops to learn how to integrate our data-collection technology into your chemistry, biology, physics, math, middle school science, physical science, and earth science curriculum. Our products can be used with computers, TI graphing calculators, and Palm handhelds. You will have an opportunity to collect data on all of these platforms.

All workshops are from 8:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m. and include a light breakfast, lunch, and lab handouts.

The cost of the workshop is $50 for the training only or $250 for the training package. The $250 training package includes training, Vernier LabPro, Logger Pro, and a Temperature Probe (a $364 value!).

You will also have the opportunity to earn one credit hour through the Portland State University Center for Science Education (approximate cost $70, payable to PSU). The credit hour will be awarded to participants who attend the workshop and elect to complete a follow-up project using electronic sensors. A brief lesson plan and a description of how you plan to integrate this project into your curriculum will be required.

Here's where we'll be this summer:

Our workshops fill up fast, so sign up today to secure your spot! The first three teachers from any one school may register; others will be placed on a waiting list. Sign up on-line at www.vernier.com/workshop.