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  • Baldwin High School
  • Baldwin City, KS
  • More than a third of students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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I am a relatively new high school physics teacher, having held this position for 3 years now right out of college. Unfortunately, the teacher I replaced, while wonderful by all accounts, viewed physics more as a series of phenomena, rather than a well-ordered extension of algebra, geometry, and trigonometry. Because of this, the collection of materials I inherited from him is outdated and not particularly helpful to running a math-based, experiment-driven physics classroom. I can do plenty of wonderful displays but the students can't be particularly hands on. Over the past 3 years, I have started to piece together the materials needed to teach physics at a level consistent with, and similar to, the intro-level physics my students will see when they enter college in a few years. This project will allow me to bump that progress forward by 4 or 5 years, based off the limited funding available in my district. The dynamic cart and track system that is the centerpiece of this project will be used in experiments into the topics of speed and acceleration, force and gravity, optics, and many others. The sensors included will be used in conjunction with already-owned technology to replace older, out of date methods.

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I am a relatively new high school physics teacher, having held this position for 3 years now right out of college. Unfortunately, the teacher I replaced, while wonderful by all accounts, viewed physics more as a series of phenomena, rather than a well-ordered extension of algebra, geometry, and trigonometry. Because of this, the collection of materials I inherited from him is outdated and not particularly helpful to running a math-based, experiment-driven physics classroom. I can do plenty of wonderful displays but the students can't be particularly hands on. Over the past 3 years, I have started to piece together the materials needed to teach physics at a level consistent with, and similar to, the intro-level physics my students will see when they enter college in a few years. This project will allow me to bump that progress forward by 4 or 5 years, based off the limited funding available in my district. The dynamic cart and track system that is the centerpiece of this project will be used in experiments into the topics of speed and acceleration, force and gravity, optics, and many others. The sensors included will be used in conjunction with already-owned technology to replace older, out of date methods.

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