Blue Ridge PBS, in partnership with Virtual Virginia and the Demonstration Lab at Virginia Tech, has produced a series of high school Physics demonstrations recorded on campus, hosted by Ph.D.candidate Alison Gaylord. These short, SOL correlated episodes are available at no cost and are also embedded in the Virtual Virginia Physics courses. The focus of the discussion will be how to use these...
The Virginia Department of Aviation has three main functions: Support Virginia's public use airports, fly the Commonwealth's aircraft, and to inspire and educate our residents into the aviation industry.
This presentation will discuss the educational programs of the DOAV including, grants, scholarships, and contests.
Question and answer session to follow.
Collaborative learning has proven to be an effective pedagogical approach that is gaining broad acceptance across STEM disciplines. While classroom activities are often the focus for such collaborative work, assessments have primarily remained the province of individual effort. For summative assessment, this is entirely appropriate, but for formative assessment, it is reasonable to “bend the...
The speaker is passionate about undergraduate teaching and research and he believes in the holistic development of students by integrating teaching and research at the undergraduate level. He has developed hundreds of cartoon clicker questions to provoke vigorous group discussions on critical thinking questions in classrooms, created corresponding hands-on active learning labs to further...
We revisit the ancient problem of finding the optimal angle for launching a projectile so as to maximize the range. In the last meeting, we showed a solution to this problem using only geometry. Here, we present some novel perspectives. One is the notion of "duality" (between the launch and target sites). Another is the envelope of all trajectories (for launching at different angles, but with...
