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Racing with the Sun: Students learn physics while designing a solar-powered vehicle
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Through this yearlong inquiry investigation, high school physics students design, create, and race a solar-powered vehicle. The design process helps students learn invaluable science, technology, mathematics,…
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Beyond the Egg Drop: Infusing Engineering Into High School Physics (e-book)
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Problem: You’re eager to expand your physics curriculum and engage your students with engineering content but you don’t know how. Solution: Use the approach and lessons in Beyond the Egg Drop to infuse engineering into…
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Focus on Physics: How E = mc2 Helps Us Understand Nuclear Fission and Fusion
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This column helps teachers build an understanding of physical principles. Nuclear physics has an undeserved reputation for being tough for students. This article may reduce this “toughness” by showing how Einstein’s…
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Promoting Physical Science to Education Majors: Making Connections between Science and Teaching
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We address student attitudes toward physical science content knowledge and skills by modeling pedagogy appropriate for the K–8 classroom. Attitude measurements show that students are initially reticent in their approach…
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Games Students Play: Teaming up in physics class leads to cooperative learning
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The case for motivating students through cooperative learning has been made and supported throughout the last two decades. Two well-known cooperative learning techniques—Student Teams-Achievement Divisions (STAD) and…
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The authors designed a physics course for prospective elementary and middle school teachers to foster aspects of scientific thinking recommended in reform documents. Because the elementary school curriculum focuses…
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This study measures the effects of increased faculty–student engagement on student learning, success rates, and perceptions in a Physical Oceanography course. The study separately implemented two teaching methods that…
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This article presents implementation details and findings of a National Science Foundation Scholarship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Program (S-STEM) consisting of many high-impact practices to…