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ERIC Number: EJ277063
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1982-Dec
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Physics and the New Games -- or Pretend You're an Atom.
Edge, Ronald D.
Physics Teacher, v20 n9 p596-601 Dec 1982
Describes several games in which physics principles are demonstrated using students. These include Pirates Treasure Game (vectors), Three-Meter Dash (kinematics), Knee-Bend Game (energy and power), Wave Game, Reaction Kinematics, Statics-People Pyramids, and games demonstrating nuclear reactions, collisions, electrons in a wire, close packing, and force (lifting the body). (JN)
Descriptors: College Science, Educational Games, High Schools, Higher Education, Physics, Science Education, Secondary School Science, Student Participation
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Audience: Practitioners
Language: English
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