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Cross, R. – Physics Education, 2015
Experiments are described on collisions between two billiard balls and between a bat and a ball. The experiments are designed to extend a student's understanding of collision events and could be used either as a classroom demonstration or for a student project.
Descriptors: Science Education, Demonstrations (Educational), Student Projects, Science Experiments
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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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Ivanov, Dragia; Nikolov, Stefan; Petrova, Hristina – Physics Education, 2014
In this paper we present three different methods for testing Bernoulli's law that are different from the standard "tube with varying cross-section." They are all applicable to high-school level physics education, with varying levels of theoretical and experimental complexity, depending on students' skills, and may even be…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Physics, Scientific Principles, Secondary School Science
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Holubova, Renata – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2015
The main issue of this paper is the discussion around the question "How can we teach and motivate the why-generation learners and the generation Z learners?". The aim of our project was to find out teaching and learning methods that teachers and learners can use in 21st century classroom. Strategies how to engage gen Y and gen Z learners…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Physics, Science Instruction, Problem Based Learning
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Hike, Nina; Beck-Winchatz, Bernhard – Science Teacher, 2015
Many students probably know something about space from playing computer games or watching movies and TV shows. Teachers can expose them to the real thing by launching their experiments into near space on a weather balloon. This article describes how to use high-altitude ballooning (HAB) as a culminating project to a chemistry unit on experimental…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Research Design, Space Sciences, Space Exploration
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Smith, Karianne; Hughes, William – Technology and Engineering Teacher, 2013
In the fall of 2011, Park Forest Middle School (PFMS) students approached the STEM faculty with numerous questions regarding the popular television show Myth Busters, which detailed Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, and inventor, Archimedes. Two episodes featured attempts to test historical accounts that Archimedes developed a death ray…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Science Course Improvement Projects, Student Projects, Scientific Concepts
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Bednarek, Stanislaw; Krysiak, Jerzy – Physics Education, 2011
The purpose of this article is to present the properties of cylindrical lenses and provide some examples of their use in easy school physics experiments. Such experiments could be successfully conducted in the context of science education, in fun experiments that teach physics and in science fair projects, or used to entertain an audience by…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Fairs, Science Instruction, Science Experiments
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Schwinefus, Jeffrey J.; Leslie, Elizabeth J.; Nordstrom, Anna R. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2010
The four-week student project described in this article is an extension of protein thermal denaturation experiments to include effects of added cosolutes ethylene glycol, glycine betaine, and urea on the unfolding of lysozyme. The transition temperatures and van't Hoff enthalpies for unfolding are evaluated for six concentrations of each cosolute,…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Chemistry
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Janova, J.; Musilova, J. – European Journal of Physics, 2010
This paper enlarges the reservoir of solved tutor problems in non-holonomic mechanics at the undergraduate level of physics education. Unlike other, rather artificial, solved problems typically used, the streetboard-rider locomotion problem presented here represents an appealing contemporary real-world problem with interesting applications in a…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, College Science, Science Instruction, Relevance (Education)
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Gluck, Paul; King, John – Physics Teacher, 2008
Incandescent lamps with tungsten filaments have been in use for about a century while being gradually replaced by fluorescent lamps; in another generation both will quite probably be largely replaced by light-emitting diodes. Incandescent lamps (simply called "lamps" in what follows) burn out after a lifetime that depends mostly on the temperature…
Descriptors: Lighting, Physics, Science Instruction, Scientific Principles
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Kraftmakher, Yaakov – European Journal of Physics, 2009
Employment of a data-acquisition system for data collection and calculations makes experiments with antennas more convenient and less time consuming. The determined directional patterns of the dipole antennas of different lengths are in reasonable agreement with theory. The enhancement of the signal by using a reflector is demonstrated, and a…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Demonstrations (Educational), Science Experiments, Science Instruction
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Chodroff, Leah; O'Neal, Tim M.; Long, David A.; Hemkin, Sheryl – Journal of Chemical Education, 2009
Chemists have used computational science methodologies for a number of decades and their utility continues to be unabated. For this reason we developed an advanced lab in computational chemistry in which students gain understanding of general strengths and weaknesses of computation-based chemistry by working through a specific research problem.…
Descriptors: Research Problems, Chemistry, Science Instruction, Computation