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Monthly Lectures of the Victorian Branch of the Australian Institute of Physics
The lectures are usually held at the University of Melbourne usually at 6:30pm on the third Thursday of the month. Click here for program details and flyers.
Newsletters from the Education Committee of the Victorian Branch
A regular email newsletter sent to teachers several times a term.
The most recent newsletters are:
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Extracts from "News" regularly emailed to physics teachers
This email newsletter has been operating since 2003. While many newsletter items have been on forthcoming events for students and teachers, there have been many items of ongoing value on resources, teaching strategies, etc. These have been combined into this one document.
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Items on teaching ideas, curriculum resources and useful websites from previous editions of the email newsletter 'Physics News from the AIP' have been compiled into the one Word document. The table of contents lists over 100 items. | |||
The newsletter has also contained short news items on current physics research and technological developments that might be of interest to teachers and students. The stories can be accessed through either of the two files. The items can be used to add relevance to classroom presentations or used for topical classroom displays.
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These emails also featured items on the latest Physics research that might be of interest to teachers and their students. This list, in Word, contains all the titles of these items. The titles have been grouped by the email they were sent with and are hyperlinked for downloading. | |||
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The titles of the featured items on the latest Physics research now number over 500. They have now also been grouped by the relevant Area of Study. There is an article for every Area of Study. This Excel file lists all the titles by Area of Study and Date of the Email News. Articles can be found for the topic you are currently teaching and the story can either be posted on a classroom wall or actually referred to in class at an apppropriate point. The Date of the Email News is also hyperlinked for downloading. | |||
If you wish to receive the email newsletter "Physics News from the AIP" or to advise of a change of email address please contact the AIP (Vic Branch) Education Committee.
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TED is a nonprofit devoted to 'Ideas Worth Spreading'. It started out in 1984 as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. TED has many short videos by inspirational speakers, the presentations are designed to be accessible to the general public. There are 260 videos on Science. A search for Physics gave 156 talks by people such as Richard Feynman, Murray Gell-Mann, Brian Cox, Freeman Dyson, George Smoot, Lee Smolin and Martin Rees. This document lists videos relevant to physics giving title, duration (several minutes) , speaker and a short description. | |||