Welcome! This is teachingphysics, a website where those involved in teaching physics (in Scotland, for now) can arrange to meet to share resources and ideas. Because it can be edited and added to by the community, it ought to be relevant and up to date all the time. Not a bad thing with so much changing in the curriculum in Scotland at the moment.

Resources

There are plenty of good places where we already share resources - find and share links to them here.

Browse excellent resources uploaded here in the folders. Why not add your own - Physics teachers like yourself are always looking for good resources to use or adapt.

Book reviews

Following Drew's idea on SPUTNIK, there's a new book review page.

Meetings

The most effective sharing of good practice takes place when teachers meet face to face. You might know how good it is when you get 10 minutes to share ideas at a QIN or in the coffee breaks at some excellent CPD. We hope to be able to make these teacher-meets-teacher moments more regular and better supported across the country.

Register and contribute: publicise your meetings, no matter how formal or otherwise.

Meetings coming up

• Saturday, Sept 19th, 10:00-15:00, IOP Network Day including: AH Physics, Rockets, Teltron tubes, Optoelectronics College, Fortose Academy - for details contact Nick Forwood or Stuart Farmer. 

• Monday 21st September in Glasgow Science Centre from 5pm: Teltron Tubes, Girls in Physics and more to be arranged - for details contact Ronna Montgomery

• Wednesday 23rd - Thursday 24th September 2009 Scottish Learning Festival

• Wednesday 23rd September 2009, Teachmeet

Recent meetings

• Tuesday, June 16th, 16:30-18:30, IOP Network Meeting, Elgin Academy 
• Thursday 18th June 2009  Curry at the Amritsar, Kirkcaldy: farewells, sharing good practice and gossip. 
• Thursday 21st May 2009  Curry at the Amritsar, Kirkcaldy: PT Interviews, CfE, the New Higher, writing prelims and how much cheese can you fit on one Naan.
• 35th IOP Stirling Meeting Wednesday 3rd June 2009, University of Stirling. 

• Thursday 26th March at the Hilton Grosvenor in Edinburgh, Edinburgh IoP Meeting

• Thursday 19th March 2009 - Teachmeet:Physics, Dewar's Ice Rink, Perth.

• Thursday 12th March - hosted by Stuart Blair, at Baldragon Academy, Dundee. IoP meeting Rocket Workshop, Forces Workshop (Tom Clark,) and further update on Girls into Physics initiative (Ronna Montgomery). More info: The rocket kit is brilliant! The kids in my S5 LOVED using it and the S1's got a real kick out of making their rockets - really enthusiastic and engaged. The forces demo is excellent too, and Ronna's take on Girls into Physics was both very interesting and quite surprising (not wishing to give anything away)!

• Thursday 5th March 5.15pm, Einstein's Universe, Queens Hall, Edinburgh.

• Friday-Saturday, 6-7th March 2009 - Dunblane Hydro, Scottish Science Education Conference - see www.asescotland.org.uk

• Thursday 26th Feb 2009 from 4-8pm - IoP Teacher Network with University of Strathclyde Physics Department. Featuring Dr Helen Fraser of Strathclyde University, by all accounts a very successful evening.

• Thursday 19th February 2009  Curry at the Amritsar, Kirkcaldy: celebrations and sharing good practice and gossip

• Earlier meetings 

* SPUTNIK is the network facilitated by the Institute of Physics for teachers of physics in Scotland. If you want to join, contact Brian Redman at the IoP by email, there's no fee and you need not be a member of the Institute.

• May 14th, Networking meeting at Robert Gordon's, Aberdeen. Refreshments from 16:00 and workshops about 17:00. Rocket launchers, Forces workshop. 
• May 7th, Hutcheson's Grammar School. West and West Central Scotland Spring Meeting. Thank you to all who attended to David Featonby for coming North to entertain us with Physics ideas, to Val O'Shea, Particle Physicist and Martin Hendry, Astronomer from Glasgow University and Kim of Pinnicle Travel. I will make telescope resources available as soon as I have them. Ronna