Teaching with Music

Journal Article | March 2022

The Quantum Mechanical Student

Journal Article | May 2022

What’s Up With Gravity?

Journal Article | May 2023

Physics in the Sport of Boxing—A Personal Story

Journal Article | February 2021

The Importance of Gusto in Teaching Gems

Journal Article | September 2022

Integrating Crosscutting Concepts and Literacy Strategies to Support Visual Literacy

Journal Article | June 2021

Students Taught by a First-Time Instructor Using Active-Learning Teaching Strategies Outperform Students Taught by a Highly-Regarded Traditional Instructor

Journal Article | February 2021

In this paper we put forth a model for physics course reform that uniquely uses proven, research-based active-learning strategies to help students improve their physics knowledge and problem-solving skills. In this…

Science That’s Out of This World

Journal Article | June 2020

Newton’s Prisms

Journal Article | November 2020

Why is the Earth round?

Journal Article | May 2020

You Don’t Have to be a Rocket Scientist

Journal Article | May 2022

Ride the Movies

Journal Article | February 2019

Apply science and engineering practices to design and build an amusement park ride based on a Hollywood film.

Accessible Physics for All

Journal Article | August 2020

Spaceships

Lesson Plan | June 2021

This probe is designed to elicit students’ ideas about changing the direction of motion in the absence of air. Many students will have seen movies or television shows in which spaceships turn by banking or using wing…

Equal and Opposite

Lesson Plan | June 2021

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about pairs of forces that fit Newton’s third law. The probe is specifically designed to reveal whether students can identify third law force pairs as…