During the CAP 2011 Congress in St. John’s Newfoundland and Labrador we had a chance to reconnect with our women physicists colleagues from all over Canada and from UK. Ann Marks from UK – a physics teacher who initiated Physics… Read moreCanadian Association of Physicists Congress: Women in Physics
Many years ago I was teaching an introductory physics course using Paul Hewett’s Conceptual Physics textbook. There I read about the Eratosthenes’s experiment that allowed him to measure the radius of the Earth. This happened more than 2000 years ago… Read moreThe Summer Solstice is Here
In the past 8 months, new reports on high school physics and other disciplines on bachelor degrees can be found on the web site of the American Institute of Physics: http://www.aip.org/statistics/catalog.html These reports will be of interest to science educators… Read moreInteresting Reports from the American Institute of Physics
In five days my colleagues from the Faculty of Education at UBC and I will travel to the largest in the world refugee camp in North East Kenya – Daadab Refugee Camp. This refugee camp is 20 years old and… Read moreScience Education in the Largest in the World Refugee Camp
One of the interesting things about being a physics teacher is an opportunity to discover many exciting physics-related things anywhere you go. I just came back from the meeting of the Canadian Association of Physicists in St.John’s, NL and I… Read moreA Physics Teacher’s View on St. John’s NL
I just came back from the Canadian Association of Physicists Congress in St.John’s Newfoundland and Labrador. It was a very interesting conference. It was especially exciting to see that the Division of Physics Education had 4 sessions and each one… Read morePhysics in Primary Schools
I feel very fortunate to get to know Olivia Fermi who is a very interesting person in her own right (Olivia is an artist), but in addition to that she is also a granddaughter of a famous physicist America-Italian physicist… Read moreOpening Enrico Fermi’s Time Capsule: 62 years later
My blog has been dormant for almost a month. There are a few reasons for it, but it certainly doesn’t mean I didn’t have anything interesting to write about. One of the most interesting things that happened last month was… Read moreMathematics and sustainability
