Posted on July 5th, 2010 by ASEE
In this activity for grades 6-8, students learn about the dynamics of hot air balloons. Working in groups, they construct a working model, then use a hair dryer as the heat source to demonstrate the principle that hot air rises. Activity courtesy of the Federal Aviation Administration.
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Tags: Class Activities, Physical Science, Physics
Posted on July 5th, 2010 by ASEE
The egg drop is a fun and dramatic way to get students involved in engineering design. After a discussion of safety features, students experiment packaging an egg to produce a design that will allow it to fall from a considerable height without cracking.
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Tags: Engineering Design, Grades 5-12, Lesson Plan, Packaging Engineering, Physical Science, Physics, Safety engineering
Posted on June 21st, 2010 by ASEE
Visit the chemistry activity page from CSIRO — The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia’s national science agency — to find simple, fun chemistry and physics projects for students. Other sections of this science Website offer information, videos, links, the Double Helix Science Club, and local resources for Australia teachers.
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Tags: Chemistry, Experiments, Physics
Posted on June 15th, 2010 by Jaimie Schock
The Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics Global Teachers’ Academy is seeking student applicants for its fourth annual two week summer workshop for high school students and teachers. The “Physics in and Through Cosmology” workshop will be held at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory adjacent to the University of California, Berkeley Campus beginning Monday, July 19 and ending Friday, July 30. The deadline for applications is June 30.
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Posted on May 6th, 2010 by ASEE
The MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC), dedicated to teaching science through direct experience, has helped create hands-on educational tools, including a plasma demonstration device and an interactive tokamak video game. Through demonstrations and tours of working experiments, MIT students and staff share the excitement of plasma research with area school students.
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Tags: Fusion, Physics, Plasma
Posted on May 3rd, 2010 by ASEE
From Supersonic Air Flow to laser plasma and carbon nanotubes, the Physics Images on the American Physical Society Website provide compelling illustration of physics research, with comprehensive accompanying explanation and discussion of each research projects. Check for current images, which are regularly featured and updated on the Website, as well as the archived images.
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Posted on May 3rd, 2010 by ASEE
The American Physical Society’s Website, PhysicsCentral, aims to communicate the excitement and importance of physics, with weekly updates on how physics is part of our world. PhysicsCentral answers questions on how things work, provides physics news updates, describes the latest research and the people who are doing it, and links to other helpful websites.
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Posted on April 26th, 2010 by Jaimie Schock
Physicist Sean Carroll says high school physics classes place too much emphasis on dry puzzle-solving and pulleys. “One of the tragedies of our educational system is that we’ve taken this incredibly interesting subject — how the universe works — and made it boring,” he says.
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Posted on March 22nd, 2010 by Jaimie Schock
Robert Goodman, a science teacher at Bergen County Technical School in Paramus, N.J, always felt that teaching 9th graders biology, but not chemistry and physics, was the wrong approach. So, he devised a curriculum for teaching physics that conformed with 9th graders’ math knowledge. His method is now being piloted in 21 schools.
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Tags: Curriculum, Education Policy, Physics
