Bree Barnett Dreyfuss' Physics & Pedagogy

Bree Barnett Dreyfuss has taught Physics at Amador Valley High School since 2005. She earned her B.S. in Physics from Cal State University, Hayward with a minor in Art Studio and a Master in Teacher Leadership from St. Mary's College. Barnett Dreyfuss is a Mentor and Coach to new teachers in the Exploratorium's Teacher Institute. She is the as Vice President of Marketing for NCNAAPT. She strongly believes that the Physics education community is stronger through reflection and collaboration.

Saturday, April 25, 2015

Building Crash Barriers: An Impulse Engineering Project

NCNAAPT, April 24th & 25th, 2015

Created in collaboration with Dan Burns of Los Gatos High School and Jon Brix of Amador Valley High School

This project was inspired by a conversation with Dan Burns and developed by Jon Brix and I. We continue to work on this project to refine it.

Poster (ppt or pdf) and handout (pdf or google doc)

Saturday, March 7, 2015

NGSS Science & Engineering

New Teacher Institute, March 7th, 2015

Presented with Geoff Gould

Powerpoint shared today (pdf or ppt)

Science & Engineering Practices Highlights (pdf or google doc)

More complete text of Science & Engineering Practices Activity (pdf or google doc)

Blank Practices chart (pdf or google doc)

Workshop Notes graciously collected by Mac of our discussions

Just some of the ideas for implementing the Science & Engineering Practices that participants had: