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Owens, David C.; Greer, Kania; Thaler, Mary – Science Activities: Projects and Curriculum Ideas in STEM Classrooms, 2023
Kids are drawn to dolls and dump trucks, and crashing the two together might just be a child's favorite pastime. Who knew such a simple pleasure could serve as an accessible, compelling phenomenon for instigating investigations of force and motion. With a few inexpensive materials straight out of the toy box (literally, a doll, a dump truck, a…
Descriptors: Toys, Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts, Motion
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Lottero-Perdue, Pamela; Blaney, Kathryn; Sandifer, Cody – Science and Children, 2022
The "Next Generation Science Standards" (NGSS) encourages educators to help kindergarteners formalize a big idea in physics: A push or pull can cause an object to begin moving, speed up, slow down, stop, or change the direction it is going (NGSS Lead States 2013). In this article, the authors share an exciting, classroom-tested…
Descriptors: Physics, Kindergarten, Preschool Children, Learner Engagement
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Campos, Esmeralda; Zuza, Kristina; Guisasola, Jenaro; Zavala, Genaro – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
We conducted a study with introductory and upper-division physics students in a Mexican university to learn how students independently recognize the electric field's main characteristics in the electric field lines diagram and as a source or target representation in conversion processes. We used the theory of registers of semiotic representations…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Energy, Scientific Concepts
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Killian, Benjamin J.; Singletary, Steven – Journal of Chemical Education, 2022
We present a modernization of the undergraduate physical chemistry laboratory experiment for determining the speed of sound in various gases from resonant frequencies in a spherical resonator. The resonator (schematic IR = 7.5 cm) is constructed by 3D printing with eco-friendly poly(lactic acid), a commercially viable alternative to traditional…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, College Science, Chemistry, Physics
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Pinheiro Junior, Jefferson Buonafina; Soares, Antonio Augusto – Physics Education, 2021
We present a sequence of two physics experiments, designed for use with secondary students, which investigate the specific heat of sand, both qualitatively and quantitatively, without a calorimeter. We use two LM35 temperature sensors and an Arduino prototype board for data acquisition. The results are good and allow teachers to discuss the…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Secondary School Science, Heat, Measurement
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Richards, Walter Bruce – Physics Teacher, 2021
Einstein's special theory of relativity includes many non-intuitive and apparently paradoxical conclusions about space and time. One of these is time dilation, the fact that a clock moving relative to an observer runs slower than an identical clock at rest in the observer's reference frame. This is clearly exhibited in the extended mean lifetime…
Descriptors: Scientific Concepts, Physics, Time, Elementary School Science
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Heck, André; Uylings, Peter – Physics Education, 2020
The fact that a bungee jumper can reach an acceleration greater than the acceleration of gravity is, also from a physics point of view, intriguing. Taking only gravity into account, it can be explained by applying conservation of energy or by deriving carefully the equation of motion in a Newtonian approach. In this article we show how it can be…
Descriptors: Scientific Concepts, Physics, Motion, Energy
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Yurumezoglu, Kemal – Physics Education, 2020
In this article, a consecutive series of four hands-on experiments are recommended to teach the colors of paint/pigment and their mixtures. These activities, which are effective in learning about how to make a simple observation and help to build argument-based knowledge about colors, offer an integrated and innovative way of teaching colors of…
Descriptors: Physics, Hands on Science, Educational Innovation, Light
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Holmes, N. G.; Smith, Emily M. – Physics Teacher, 2019
Calls for reform to instructional labs mean many instructors and departments are facing the daunting task of identifying goals for their introductory lab courses. Fortunately, the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) released a set of recommendations for learning goals for the lab to support lab redevelopment. Here we outline the…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Physics, Science Laboratories, Educational Change
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Josephine C. Meyer; Gina Passante; Bethany Wilcox – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2024
Driven in large part by the National Quantum Initiative Act of 2018, quantum information science (QIS) coursework and degree programs are rapidly spreading across U.S. institutions. Yet prior work suggests that access to quantum workforce education is unequally distributed, disproportionately benefiting students at private research-focused…
Descriptors: Quantum Mechanics, Physics, Science Education, Low Income Students
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Pendrill, Ann-Marie – Physics Education, 2021
Take a selection of balls and marbles along to a nearby playground slide and let students investigate factors that may influence how balls accelerate down an inclined plane. Students can make hypotheses in small groups, plan investigations to test multiple possible explanations and draw conclusions about the importance of different variables. The…
Descriptors: Physics, Motion, Science Activities, Active Learning
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Tompkins, Nathan – Physics Teacher, 2019
The Tesla coil is one of the most famous and popularly recognizable high voltage devices. Utilizing the fame of recognizability of the Tesla coil in a "Build Your Own" laboratory exercise is a great way to create a successful and highly interesting learning activity. Classical Tesla coils utilize a spark gap as the primary switch,…
Descriptors: Equipment, Energy, Physics, Science Instruction
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Neuenschwander, Dwight E. – Physics Teacher, 2020
Previous generations of physics students learned how common machines work, as evidenced by their textbook illustrations. Such understanding of machines that daily life depends on seems to be evaporating. In response, for two decades I have conducted an introductory physics "engine cadaver lab." It offers opportunities for hands-on…
Descriptors: Hands on Science, Physics, Science Instruction, Class Activities
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de Winter, James – Physics Teacher, 2019
It is common for high school physics teachers to comment on the challenges they face in supporting students' graph drawing skills, knowing their importance for the study of physics. This paper suggests a novel and alternative way to support students to develop their graph drawing skills as well as teach them about sound, frequency, and amplitude.…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Secondary School Science, Graphs
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Elliott, Leslie Atkins; Sippola, Elizabeth; Watkins, Jeffrey – Journal of Chemical Education, 2019
In this article, we describe how the Gaussian Gun, a simple configuration of magnets and ball bearings, can be leveraged to connect ideas from physics to representations and ideas that are central to chemistry and challenging for students to learn. In particular, we show how the Gaussian Gun, an arrangement of ball bearings and magnets, models…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Chemistry, Physics, Magnets
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