Any field of science requires hands-on experimentation to understand the material. Since the stay at home orders for the nation, it has become feasible to flip my physics course. Students are willing to work on the homework with the help of video lecture from me. I am submitting this project so I can have the students understand the transmission of data, mostly images, using mirrors and lenses. By the end of the course, the students should have extensive experience in experimentation.
I teach in a public school in an economically depressed area of the city.
The student body is 25% African American, 44% Hispanic, 21% white, 10% other. 81.8% of our students are classified as economically disadvantaged, 22 % of our students are English language learners and 22% have individual learning plans. The school itself is small but caring. We strive to educate the students to the best of our ability and guide them through life as much as we can. Many of my students are the first in their family to go to college, so preparing them for college life is one of our main objectives.
My Project
I would like to flip my physics course, which means that I record video explanations of the physics topics. The students will watch the videos during their study hall or after school. During the class time, the students will either work on their problem sets or perform experiments. One of the standards I would like to explore is the transmission of data through lenses and mirrors. To achieve this, I am planning to obtain the optic set from Vernier to use with the motion track so they can perform experiments using this equipment . We can use various items as objects so we can see where the images can form.
Students will work on 3 to 5 experiments to observe the operation of mirrors and lenses.
I plan for the students to have experience with using concave and convex mirrors to form virtual and real images. Then the students will use convergent and divergent lenses to transmit images from one location to another. Lastly the students can construct a microscope and see how object distance from the lens can affect the clarity of the image.
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