Canadian Association of Physicists 2010 Meets in Toronto

CAP 2010 Meets in Toronto June 7-11 2010

Canadian Association of Physicists Congress will meet in Toronto during the second week of June. Division of Physics Education (DPE) has 6 parallel sessions, a full High School Teachers’ Day, an inaugural New Faculty Workshop and new 5 special Teaching Awards for Ca nadian High School Physics Teachers and a CAP Undergraduate Excellence in Physics […]

C21: Physics Teaching for the 21st Century

C21: Physics Teaching for the 21st Century

If you are wondering how to make physics relevant to your students, do not hesitate to browse a new resource created at the Department of Physics at the University of British Columbia called “C21 Physics Teaching for the 21st Century“.  This is a short excerpt from it: Your resource to make physics teaching relevant to […]

Photos from past AAPT Meetings - you do not want to miss the action!

Summer AAPT Meeting in Portland Oregon!

Dear BCAPT members! The BCAPT Executive Committee wanted to make all members aware of a wonderful professional development and just very fun event coming up this July. The AAPT is having its Summer National Meeting in Portland, Oregon on July 17th-21st. There are workshops, social events, excellent talks, an amazing demo show, excellent science stores […]

Quirks & Quarks: An Award winning Canadian Science Radio Show

Quirks & Quarks on CBC Radio

One of my former students (thank you, Keith) recently reminded me of a radio show that will be of interest to science teachers and to anybody who is curious about the outside world. I like it very much and try not to make sure to listen to every episode. The show is also available online […]

The Mystery of Dark Matter by the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

The Mystery of Dark Matter from the Perimeter Institute

Perimeter Explorations This series of in-class educational resources is designed to help teachers explain a range of important topics in physics. Perimeter Explorations is the product of extensive collaboration between international researchers, Perimeter Institute’s outreach staff and experienced teachers. Each module has been designed with both the expert and novice teacher in mind and has […]

The Big Little Science Centre

The Big Little Science Centre in Kamloops

The Big Little Science Centre (BLSC) was started in February 2000 by a retired Kamloops physics teacher, a long-term BCAPT and AAPT member, an experienced science educator and a person whose efforts in improving physics and science teaching in BC made him respected and revered all across the province – Mr. Gordon R. Gore. The […]

Ed Tech Teacher

Free Webinar: Online Activities in Science Classroom (05-26-2010) 1 pm PST

Special Invitation from Educational Technology Teacher: I’m writing from Ed Tech Teacher, an educational technology professional development provider dedicated to helping teachers use technology to create active, student-centered learning communities. I’d like to invite your members and associates to join Tom Daccord for a free-of-charge webinar: “Online Activities in the Science Classroom” on May 26, 2010. The […]

Portland, OR, the place of the 2010 AAPT Summer Meeting (July 17-21, 2010)

What AAPT (BCAPT) Means to Me

American Association of Physics Teachers has played a significant role in my professional and personal life for over a decade. I became a member of the TX section of the AAPT while being a graduate student at the University of TX (1999). I was invited to come to the section meetings and often brought my […]

Science on Stage

Science on Stage – Amazing Opportunity

This is an event for science educators where we have the opportunity to 1. Showcase something that we have done that is worth sharing with other educators (don’t be shy … you have awesome stuff or I wouldn’t be trying to convince you to share) 2. Engage in professional development that is different than the […]

Investigating Our Practices: Facutly of Education Conference at UBC

Investigating Our Practices – UBC Half Day Conference (05-15-2010)

Watch It Live This Saturday! ************************************ For the first time, sessions of the Investigating Our Practices (IOP) conference at UBC Facutly of Education will be streamed live online. The half-day IOP conference is organized each year by UBC’s Faculty of Education and the BCTF to give practicing teachers, university educators, graduate students, and student teachers […]