Description
- Abstract:
- The purpose of this lesson is twofold. Firstly, the lesson aims to teach students about several key physical concepts including forces, potential and kinetic energy, kinematics, and projectile motion utilizing gravity as the foundational piece and narrative for these topics. Secondly, the lesson focuses on teaching the subject matter via an integrative lecture/experiment format. This format is preferential in that it will train the students to become better scientists and thinkers allowing them to synthesize facts, data, and observations into meaningful approaches to answering questions and reaching solid conclusions. Hopefully such an approach will engage the students and stimulate them to translate the question asking skills and connection making abilities required in experimenting to the realm of static lectures.
- Notes:
- STEM Area: Physics
- Activity type: Hands-on
- Grant source: NSF
Citation
Sabbagh, Mark,
"Playing with gravity"
(2011).
Open Educational Resources (OER) and Research Impacts.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:697294/
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Open Educational Resources (OER) and Research Impacts
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