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This project will provide the key equipment necessary for an inquiry based approach to learning about energy and force, some of the key components of a basic physics course. My classroom involves virtually no lecturing. Rather students conduct experiments and investigations, and reason individually, in small groups and as a class to come to an understanding of what the evidence is telling them.
The equipment in this project will allow my students to measure changes in velocity in different circumstances and to infer what is happening with energy in those circumstances.
My students construct an understanding, based in their own experimental work, of Newton's laws and how these play out in daily life. The other requested equipment is part of how students construct a model of charge based on evidence that they collect. This active and independent approach to constructing models and understandings of how things work prepares students for more sophisticated independent learning in college and the workplace.
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This project will provide the key equipment necessary for an inquiry based approach to learning about energy and force, some of the key components of a basic physics course. My classroom involves virtually no lecturing. Rather students conduct experiments and investigations, and reason individually, in small groups and as a class to come to an understanding of what the evidence is telling them.
The equipment in this project will allow my students to measure changes in velocity in different circumstances and to infer what is happening with energy in those circumstances.
My students construct an understanding, based in their own experimental work, of Newton's laws and how these play out in daily life. The other requested equipment is part of how students construct a model of charge based on evidence that they collect. This active and independent approach to constructing models and understandings of how things work prepares students for more sophisticated independent learning in college and the workplace.