The Fall Conference is the perfect opportunity to network with other physics teachers, learn about current issues relevant to the physics community, and earn 3 CTLE credit hours.
2024 Fall Conference – NGSS
Location – Sacred Heart Academy – 47 Cathedral Ave – West Hempstead
Session 1 – Writing an NGSS Unit Plan
This presentation will focus on the process and insights gained while writing a kinematics unit plan incorporating the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). The unit plan was created using a ten-step storyline process that included creating an anchor chart, writing enduring understandings, developing essential questions, designing an assessment, and creating a list of phenomena with corresponding learning expectations, experiences and performances. Both the process of creating this kinematics unit and the final product will be shared.
Session 2 – 3D Assessment Screening Tool
Attendees will use an 11-point 3D Assessment Screening Tool to evaluate the final kinematics assessment, and they will interact with computer simulations that allow students to discover the difference between distance & displacement and average speed & average velocity. The presenters will share individual lesson plans structured around the 5E student-centered model (Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, Evaluate) and show a video of students testing their solutions to the anchoring problem of predicting where two moving objects approaching each other will meet. Participants will leave with practical tools and insights to support their own development of NYSSLS/NGSS curriculum.
Past Conferences:
- 2023 Fall Conference Resources
- 2022 Fall Conference Resources
- 2022 Spring Conference
- 2021 Fall Conference