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Amy D. Robertson; Lisa M. Goodhew; Lauren C. Bauman; Brynna Hansen; Anne T. Alesandrini – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
[This paper is part of the Focused Collection on Qualitative Methods in PER: A Critical Examination.] Identifying student ideas about particular physics topics is one of the earliest and longest-standing foci of physics education research. This paper presents a method for identifying common conceptual resources for understanding physics, using…
Descriptors: Physics, Scientific Concepts, Science Process Skills, Science Tests
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Kok, Karol; Boczianowski, Franz – Physics Teacher, 2021
Science labs should promote reasoning that resembles the work that scientists do. However, this is often not the case. We present a lab in which students strive to find out which of two models best describes a physics experiment. The quantification of measurement uncertainties--another topic that is often neglected in high school…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Science Laboratories, Science Experiments, Physics
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Redish, Edward F. – Physics Teacher, 2021
The key difference between math as math and math in science is that in science we blend our physical knowledge with our knowledge of math. This blending changes the way we put meaning to math and even the way we interpret mathematical equations. Learning to think about physics with math instead of just calculating involves a number of general…
Descriptors: Mathematics Skills, Science Process Skills, Equations (Mathematics), Physics
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Richards, A. J. – Physics Teacher, 2020
As students learn physics, they are often required to reason about the behavior of macroscopic and microscopic phenomena, and to synthesize prior knowledge from several different areas of physics to construct understanding of new ideas. This can be a tremendously difficult cognitive task for novice students, especially when the unfamiliar…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Physics, Visualization, Science Process Skills
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Betance, Gabriela Nieto; Díaz, Mario Humberto Ramírez; Martínez, Soraida Cristina Zúñiga – Physics Teacher, 2021
The preschool level is often the first formal opportunity for children to experience science. There are many examples of appropriate experiments and scientific experiences aimed at young children, both in Mexico and around the world. Even the formal public preschool program in Mexico includes sections called Academic Training Topics, one of which…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Education, Preschool Education, Public Education
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Newland, James; Wong, Sissy S. – Science Teacher, 2022
This three-day integrated 5E inquiry lesson that includes physics, engineering, and biology concepts, uses physical computing and photoplethysmography to learn about one's pulse. The main learning objective is to have students communicate how wave phenomena, like a pulse, can be analyzed using sensors, which is called physical computing. This…
Descriptors: Physics, Engineering, Biology, Science Instruction
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Keller, Philip – Physics Teacher, 2019
Before students learn Kirchhoff's rules, they are typically taught how to solve "combined series-parallel" circuits. The method presented in many textbooks begins by drawing a series of simplified circuits, replacing series and/or parallel elements with their equivalent resistances, eventually reducing the circuit to a voltage source and…
Descriptors: Physics, Equipment, Energy, Problem Solving
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Niu Huang; Chao Li; Shili Gan; Cancan Le; Huan Liu; Wei Liu; Liqun Ye – Journal of Chemical Education, 2022
With the benefits of low cost, energy efficiency, and environmental protection, photocatalytic hydrogen production is considered to be the most promising technology for the development of a clean and sustainable society. However, the utilization of photocatalytically generated hydrogen is not very common yet. Therefore, tertiary education urgently…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, College Science, Chemistry, Botany
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de Winter, James – Physics Teacher, 2019
It is common for high school physics teachers to comment on the challenges they face in supporting students' graph drawing skills, knowing their importance for the study of physics. This paper suggests a novel and alternative way to support students to develop their graph drawing skills as well as teach them about sound, frequency, and amplitude.…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Secondary School Science, Graphs
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Geske, Matthew – Physics Teacher, 2019
Many introductory physics courses begin with the teaching of motion and kinematics. This naturally leads to the use of constant acceleration equations to solve various problems involving common motions (free fall being a notable example). Students can sometimes get the impression that these equations are the only thing they need to remember in…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts, Introductory Courses
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Frensley, John – Physics Teacher, 2019
Traditional high school physics instruction often comes across as a mere extension of the mathematics classroom to many of our students. Solving numerical physics problems using structures such as the GUESS method (given, unknown, equation, substitute, solve) doesn't help students with conceptual understanding. With the advent of physics education…
Descriptors: High School Students, Secondary School Science, Physics, Science Process Skills
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Jacobs, Greg C. – Physics Teacher, 2018
The Tasks Inspired by Physics Education Research (TIPERS) workbooks pose questions in styles quite different from the end-of-chapter problems that those of us of a certain age were assigned back in the days before Netscape. My own spin on TIPERS is not just to do them on paper, but to have students set up the situations in the laboratory to…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Education, Workbooks, Science Activities
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Su, Jun; Wang, Weiguo; Wang, Xu; Song, Feng – Physics Teacher, 2019
Gravitational lensing is an interesting phenomenon in astronomy and is most typically given rise to by galaxies. The majority of the matter in a galaxy is thought to be dark matter, and the galactic gravitational lensing effect is mainly caused by dark matter halos. In gravitational lensing-related demonstrations in physics education, the feet of…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Computer Peripherals, Printing, Science Instruction
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Tan, Verily; Crow, Leslie; Gibson, Audrey; Phillips, Cassie; Wray, Lisa; Reck, Cathrine – Science Teacher, 2019
The authors developed a lesson for teachers to integrate chemistry and culinary arts, providing students with an opportunity to participate in three-dimensional learning, engage in science and engineering practices, and apply disciplinary core content and crosscutting concepts (Krajcik et al. 2014). The project involved five classes: three…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Cooking Instruction, Science Education, Engineering
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Teiermayer, Attila – Physics Education, 2019
The BBC Micro:bit is a great device to encourage students to get involved in Computer Science and to create their own digital projects. However, the design of the single-board computer (including the built-in sensors) makes it possible to use it in Physics lessons or in Physics related activities, too. Those students who are keen to take up…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Physics, Computer Science Education, Computers
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