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Cengiz, Ekrem – Science Activities: Projects and Curriculum Ideas in STEM Classrooms, 2018
The goal of this study is to present and evaluate a different way of teaching concepts related to the reflection of light (incident beam, reflecting beam, angle of incidence, angle of reflection, surface, regular reflection, and diffuse reflection). The participants were 42 sixth-grade students (between the ages of 11 and 12) attending a public…
Descriptors: Reflection, Light, Grade 6, Middle School Students
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Concannon, James P.; Brown, Patrick L. – Science Activities: Projects and Curriculum Ideas in STEM Classrooms, 2018
Students come to class with little understanding about torque, angular velocity, and angular acceleration despite the fact that these physical science concepts are frequently observed. For example, torque occurs when car and bicycle tires rotate, the movement of fishing pole when hooking a fish, and when a person uses a hammer to drive in a nail.…
Descriptors: Science Activities, Science Instruction, Physics, Scientific Concepts