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Martins, Julian S.; Belleau, Shelly N.; Otero, Valerie K. – Physics Teacher, 2021
Physics is one of the least diverse disciplines amongst the natural sciences. Large-scale studies, such as those from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, have indicated that students from underrepresented and racially minoritized groups score below students from dominant groups, and female students are typically outperformed by their…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Inclusion, Physics, Science Curriculum
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Koblischka, Michael R.; Koblischka-Veneva, Anjela – Physics Education, 2022
Several properties of Earth's magnetic field (field vectors, time dependence) are measured in various locations using a smartphone/tablet magnetic sensor. To enable a proper use of the magnetic sensor as a classroom tool, the exact location of the sensor in the device and its resolution must be identified in a first step. Then, students may…
Descriptors: High School Students, Physics, Science Curriculum, Experiments
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Crisell, Emma – Primary Science, 2022
The Richard Taylor Primary School in Harrogate, North Yorkshire is committed to a focus on a whole-school vision to teach every child the wisdom, knowledge and skills to be a creative life-long learner, enabling them to shape their future. In so doing, they pride themselves on widening children's science capital and experience. Their recent…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Instruction, Elementary School Science, Physics
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Jason M. May – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
[This paper is part of the Focused Collection on Instructional labs: Improving traditions and new directions.] Physics instructional labs have long been an area of pedagogical innovation and educational research. While current stakeholders in instructional labs are undoubtedly aware of the day's concerns, reform efforts, and empirical research…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Science Laboratories, Educational History
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Caballero, Marcos D.; Chonacky, Norman; Engelhardt, Larry; Hilborn, Robert C.; Lopez del Puerto, Marie; Roos, Kelly R. – Physics Teacher, 2019
The need to integrate computation into the physics curriculum has long been established: using simulations and computational modeling can enhance students' conceptual understanding, and the computational skills students acquire are both useful and necessary in their careers. However, making changes to an established physics course is a challenge…
Descriptors: Physics, College Science, Undergraduate Students, Computation
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Binder, P.-M.; Collins, Topaz P.; Blacksmith, Kristal – Physics Teacher, 2020
The purpose of this paper is to describe a three-year limited-run offer of an energy science certificate in the University of Hawaii at Hilo campus, along with lessons learned that can be of use to other institutions considering comparable programs. Energy science is a loosely defined discipline that traditionally straddles physics and mechanical,…
Descriptors: Physics, Energy, Science Instruction, Science Curriculum
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Thompson, Frank – Physics Education, 2017
Experiments with Lecher Lines have always been important in the physics curriculum for demonstrating standing waves and the important concept that waves can be guided as well as being emitted into space. A system operating at low power (less than 10 mW) and in the frequency range 300 MHz to 800MHz is described and the wavelength of the radiation…
Descriptors: Physics, Scientific Concepts, Science Instruction, Electronics
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Tracy, Charles – School Science Review, 2018
The Institute of Physics curriculum committee has been looking at ways of framing schoollevel physics so that it gives students a rewarding and productive experience of physics and leaves them with positive views of the discipline and its cultural contribution, as well as lasting and detailed skills, knowledge and understanding. The result is some…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Guidelines
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Preston, Christine; Hubber, Peter; Bondurant-Scott, Michele; Gunesekere, Ishara – Teaching Science, 2020
Constructing Direct Current (DC) electric circuits is simple and engaging for primary students, but that is not all there is to learning about electricity. Mandatory learning in the Australian Curriculum: Science (ACARA, 2018) expects Year 6 students to explain some of the processes underlying electric circuits. The abstract nature of key…
Descriptors: Energy, Teaching Methods, Elementary School Students, Science Curriculum
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Enderle, Patrick; King, Natalie; Margulieux, Lauren – Science Teacher, 2021
Teaching about wave structure and function is a critical element of any physical science curriculum and supported by "Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)" PS4: Waves and Their Applications in Technologies for Information Transfer. To support students' learning of these ideas, teachers often rely on developing graphic models of a…
Descriptors: Science Education, Standards, Teaching Methods, Science Curriculum
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Wiener, Gerfried J.; Woithe, Julia; Brown, Alexander; Jende, Konrad – Physics Education, 2016
In the context of the recent re-start of CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and the challenge presented by unidentified falling objects (UFOs), we seek to facilitate the introduction of high energy physics in the classroom. Therefore, this paper provides an overview of the LHC and its operation, highlighting existing education resources, and…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Energy, Science Curriculum
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Coletta, Vincent P. – Physics Teacher, 2017
Thinking in Physics (TIP) is a new curriculum that is more effective than commonly used interactive engagement methods for students who have the greatest difficulty learning physics. Research has shown a correlation between learning in physics and other factors, including scientific reasoning ability. The TIP curriculum addresses those factors.…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Science Curriculum, Teaching Methods
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Macalalag, Augusto, Jr.; Johnson, Barbara; Johnson, Joseph – Science and Children, 2018
Engaging students in designing, testing, and revising engineering models using mathematical representation of data from scientific investigations helps them embody the science and engineering practices highlighted in the "Next Generation Science Standards" (NGSS Lead States, 2013). The practices of modeling, conducting failure analysis,…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Standards, Design, Engineering Education
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Hechter, Richard Paul; Awad, Nayif – Physics Teacher, 2017
Richard Hechter and Nayif Awad wrote this article from opposite sides of the Earth and are getting ready to meet again in December 2017 to continue their project of bringing the world together through physics education, one constellation at a time. With the events in France, Belgium, Germany, United States, and United Kingdom fresh in their minds,…
Descriptors: Astronomy, Physics, Foreign Countries, Global Approach
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LoPresto, Michael C. – Physics Education, 2016
What follows is a description of the procedure for and results of a simple experiment on the formation of impact craters designed for the laboratory portions of lower mathematical-level general education science courses such as conceptual physics or descriptive astronomy. The experiment provides necessary experience with data collection and…
Descriptors: Physics, Experiments, Science Instruction, Science Curriculum
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