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Exploring Physics for Education (PHYS 108)
Physics for future teachers . . .The purpose of this course is to provide education majors with a laboratory-intensive science experience, aimed at providing teachers with knowledge that can be immediately useable within their own classrooms.Marcie Fairchild and I presented this class as a paper at the Alabama Academy of Science March 2004. Here is our PowerPoint presentation! First Instance was Jan-Term 2001, Second Instance Fall 2001, Third Instance Jan-Term 2003, Fourth Instance Jan-Term 2004. Next Instance: ????Catalog Description: How close can you fly your spaceship to a black hole? How small is a quark or an x-ray? How can you solidify water? And we don’t mean freeze it! How cold is liquid air? How does a rocket work? This integrated lecture and laboratory course provides a hand’s-on learning experience to develop enhanced conceptual understanding of many topics in Physics. In addition to the hands-on activities, there will be a number of open discussions about selected topics to reward the curious student. Current trends in science-education pedagogy, using kit-based science will also be explored. While designed for education majors, this course is appropriate for anyone wishing to experience physics, not just memorize facts about it. Remember, the Earth and all of us on it are stardust, thanks to a super nova getting explosive! Along with experiments, students generate their own projects and present them to the class: The following are some pictures from Jan Term 2003 activities.(Click on a picture to view a larger version, use "back" to end viewing)The Students played with a hovercraft: We also had lots of classroom experiments. Here Megan is having a "bad hair day" thanks to a Van De Graaf Generator.
Student Presentations!Adrienne teaches about "hot air rising."
Jenni and Amy play with Gak
Lydia shows us the great properties of cornstarch
Alison leads an experiment on buoyancy (In the background Angie is signing to
our deaf student.)
Suzanne shows a roller-coaster experiment with the help of Alison.
Kristen shows different reaction rates with the help of Lydia, Erica and Jenni.
Adrienne leads us through a planetary exercise: Suzanne and Erica help hold
everything together!
Amy races a dog through a maze with a magnet:
Ashley makes clouds for us! In the back Lin is signing for our deaf student. Science Olympiad!We formed the class into two teams and had our own elementary Science
Olympiad! Mission Possible!
Bridge Building!
Can Race
Write-it/Do-it
Web-PagesUsing Microsoft Word, each student built their own web page! Check out these great pages: |
