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Siddiq, Nur Abdillah – Physics Education, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced educational institutions to adjust their learning process to distance education or online learning. This paper explains how to teach optics during the COVID-19 pandemic by implementing project-based learning that can be supervised online. Students are instructed to design, characterize, and optimize droplet lenses…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Distance Education
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Amir, Nazir; Abdullah, Nor'Aini Bte – Physics Education, 2021
A way to promote student interest and engagement in physics is by capitalizing on students' skills in arts and crafts to design and make physics-based toys. This article illustrates how two students (averaging 14 years of age) in the authors' science class designed and fabricated a variation of a physics-based teaching aid that demonstrates the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Interests, Physics, Learner Engagement
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Langbeheim, Elon – Physics Education, 2015
Research has shown that project-based learning promotes student interest in science and improves understanding of scientific content. Fostering student motivation is particularly important in accelerated science and technology programmes for talented students, which are often demanding and time-consuming. Current texts provide little guidance on…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Scientific Principles, Junior High School Students, Physics
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Johansson, K. E.; Malmgren, T. G. M. – Physics Education, 1999
Describes an educational project primarily aimed at teachers and 15 to 18-year-old students that describes the essential features of a modern high-energy physics experiment. (Author/CCM)
Descriptors: High Schools, Inservice Teacher Education, Internet, Matter
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Dobson, Ken – Physics Education, 1988
Discusses a teaching method using investigational skills for Nuffield A-level Physics including assessment technique, change of the assessment criteria, advice for choosing the topic, and future development. (YP)
Descriptors: Experiments, Foreign Countries, Investigations, Physics
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Leung, W. P.; And Others – Physics Education, 1980
Describes a project on the application of the laser which aims to stimulate the interest of undergraduate students in applied physics and to demonstrate the interaction between light and ultrasonic waves by building a simple laser communication system. (SK)
Descriptors: College Science, Electronics, Engineering Education, Higher Education
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MacLaren, H. M. – Physics Education, 1980
Describes physics project of the sixth-year of secondary schools in Scotland. The article also discusses: (1) aims of the Scottish certificate of sixth-year studies (CSYS); (2) teacher's role; and (3) method of teaching physics projects. (HM)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Evaluation, Measurement, Physics
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Dorling, Geoffrey – Physics Education, 1988
Overviews the "Nuffield Coordinated Sciences" program. Discusses the aim, coordination of content, presentation, and the writing timetable. (YP)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Elementary Education, Elementary School Science, Foreign Countries