Archive for the 'Interactivity in the classroom' Category
Friday, May 6th, 2011
As I am preparing to present at the BC AAPT Annual General Meeting in Kelowna, I decided to post my presentation online so I can share it with other physics teachers. I am a big fan of Video-Based Motion Analysis. I use Vernier Logger Pro to do video-based motion analysis. There are other options as […]
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Thursday, May 5th, 2011
This video was shared with me by a friend. Although I have seen this demo before, I still love it. I think you can just build it yourself – a fun project for a high school physics class. Notice, the pendula are uncoupled.
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Monday, April 11th, 2011
International Conference on Women in Physics has been one of the most interesting and inspirational conferences I have ever attended. More than 250 women and men from more than 60 different countries attended it. As the conference took place in South Africa, there were lots of attendees from Africa, Asia and other places that rarely […]
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Monday, March 28th, 2011
It was interesting to see how this coin got stuck in “mid-air” – actually it was mid-water… You can do lots of interesting experiments with this simple equipment.
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Friday, March 25th, 2011
Being a physics teachers changes you. I think even when you are not teaching, somewhere in the back of your mind, you keep thinking about it. It became apparent to me when I entered a dollar store (a place frequently visited by teachers) and noticed very cool beads. They are sold as handmade 4D Crystal […]
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Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011
Today I had a chance to preview a very interesting software produced by the Evident Point software company right here in Vancouver. The software is called ActiveTextbook. It allows a teacher to convert his or her materials into interactive courses while retaining everything that has been created already. For example, if you have lecture notes […]
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Saturday, March 19th, 2011
I wanted to put a short comment on the presentation by Dr. Hunter Close from the Seattle Pacific University that I just listened to. Hunter spoke on how they use the idea of kinestetic representation to help middle school teachers to understand the concept of energy. It is part of the Seattle Pacific University Energy […]
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Saturday, March 19th, 2011
I feel very fortunate to be able to attend the Foundations and Frontiers of Physics Education Research Regional Conference organized by our colleagues from the Washington State. The conference has 40 participants from Washington, BC, Oregon, Colorado and Idaho. The goal is to exchange ideas and to see where we can collaborate. Since the number […]
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Wednesday, March 16th, 2011
I have been planning my last science teaching lesson for tomorrow and decided to use Geiger Counter from Vernier as a model of data collection. it also has a very relevant link to our students today as we all are thinking of the catastrophe in Japan. Although few people might use it in the elementary […]
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Monday, March 14th, 2011
Today we had a very interesting discussion in my elementary science methods class. We discussed how conceptual multiple choice questions can be used in an elementary classroom (K-8). Initially, the students were vehemently opposed to multiple choice questions. Most of them cited the idea that multiple choice questions do not allow students to be creative […]
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