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Direct linkTembrevilla, Gerald; Milner-Bolotin, Marina – Physics Education, 2019
This paper describes how future physics teachers' involvement in annual Family Math and Science Day--a public outreach event at the University of British Columbia, Canada--has a potential to transform them as physics demonstration experts and amateur video producers. These science demonstration videos serve as teaching and learning resources not…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Science Teachers, Physics
Hechter, Richard P. – Physics Education, 2020
'It is the belt!' This is how middle school teachers in a science teaching professional development program rationalized why they believe Orion is the most recognizable of all constellations in the night sky. It was from this foundation that we chose Orion to be the focus of a four-phase ethnoastronomy-based project reported here. Ethnoastronomy,…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Science Teachers, Science Instruction, Faculty Development
Moll, Rachel F. – Physics Education, 2010
Amusement park physics is a popular way to reinforce physics concepts and to motivate physics learners. This article describes a novel physics competition where students use simple tools to take amusement park ride measurements and use the data to answer challenging exam questions. Research into the impact of participating in the competition…
Descriptors: Physics, Competition, Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts
MacLeod, Katarin – Physics Education, 2007
The law of conservation of momentum is one that students often have difficulties understanding. This experiment allows students to use childhood toys to examine and calculate the muzzle velocity of their favourite water gun by using an air track, a spark timer or data logger and the law of conservation of momentum in a one-dimensional case, a…
Descriptors: Weapons, Laboratory Experiments, Physics, Science Experiments
Peer reviewedAguirre, Jose M.; Rankin, Graham – Physics Education, 1989
A questionnaire and demonstrations were used to identify students' conceptions about the composition of orthogonal velocities. Four questions from the questionnaire are provided and the results for each question are reported. The four implicit vector characteristics of this study are appended. (YP)
Descriptors: College Science, Foreign Countries, Fundamental Concepts, Higher Education
Peer reviewedAusten, David; Brouwer, Wytze – Physics Education, 1997
Describes an activity to study radioactive decay using charged balloons. Reports on readings of radioactivity taken at different locations in Edmonton, Alberta using balloons. (JRH)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Measurement, Science Activities
