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Beil, Fabian; Thees, Michael; Kapp, Sebastian; Kuhn, Jochen – Physics Teacher, 2023
In introductory electric circuits in middle school, students often carry strongly held alternative conceptions. Common to many of these is an idea of electric current as some kind of substance that originates from the battery and moves toward electronic components. Learners often argue that current influences those one by one as they are…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Electronic Equipment, Middle School Students, Science Instruction
Morishige, Hina; Kato, Tetsuya – Physics Teacher, 2022
Prompt determination of the positive or negative signs of charged objects promotes students' understanding of electrostatics and motivates them to learn more about this field of physics. We developed a low-cost (about US$5) and easy-to-use device for checking the signs of the static charges in objects. It consists of two easy-to-build circuits,…
Descriptors: Energy, Physics, Scientific Concepts, Measurement Equipment
Pathare, Shirish R.; Latad, Bhagyashri G.; Lahane, Rohan D.; Huli, Saurabhee S. – Physics Teacher, 2021
Students are often introduced to optics in their middle school years. The initial topics that are introduced through their lessons are laws of reflection and refraction of light. In the law of reflection, students do not often question why the angle of incidence is equal to the angle of reflection and why a light ray should follow this specific…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Physics, Optics, Middle School Students
Pfister, Hans – Physics Teacher, 2021
The Ball Bearing High Voltage generator is a fairly simple and transparent apparatus that can serve as a tool to motivate conceptual descriptions and calculations in electrostatics that are normally presented to our students in a rather dry and matter-of-fact fashion. For example, instead of posing a problem in the typical textbook form of…
Descriptors: Demonstrations (Educational), Electronics, Science Equipment, Scientific Concepts
Schulze, Tina; Quast, Günter; Bergmann, Antje; Dengler, Roman – Physics Teacher, 2020
Although nearly everyone is familiar with colors from an early age and the fundamentals of color mixing are taught at various abstraction levels throughout kindergarten to high school, we repeatedly observe that our student teachers in physics have problems in explaining the subject. Therefore, we propose an experimental setup that focuses on the…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Science Experiments
Nelson, Jane Bray; Nelson, Jim – Physics Teacher, 2020
This article describes an activity appropriate for middle or high school physics or physical science students. Rather than giving the answer to the question "How does a milliliter compare to a cubic centimeter?" the students develop a procedure for measuring volume by calculation and by displacement of water. Students share the data and…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, High Schools, Secondary School Science, Science Instruction
Wiesner, Matthew P.; Sederberg, David; Lang, Rafael – Physics Teacher, 2020
Dark matter comprises most of the matter in the universe, yet physicists are unsure of its nature. A significant effort is devoted in contemporary research to attempts to understand dark matter, making it a both captivating and relevant area of astrophysics to discuss in a classroom setting. What is more, the physics behind these experiments is…
Descriptors: Simulation, Science Experiments, Scientific Concepts, Outreach Programs
Bussani, Andrea – Physics Teacher, 2020
In this paper a "non-elementary system" is defined as a system consisting of elementary (i.e., indivisible) constituents. Such systems are a common feature of the standard model of particle physics: for example, according to the standard model, a proton (non-elementary particle) consists of two up quarks and one down quark (elementary…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, High School Students, Science Instruction, Physics
Rosengrant, David; Money, Philip; Beyer, Tracey; Alexander, Berkil – Physics Teacher, 2019
Some educators use what we call a "hook" as a key element in their lessons. We use "hooks" to get our students interested in what it is we are teaching. Many teachers have adopted the Next Generation Science Standards and establish the phenomena as the engine that drives scientific investigation and learning in the classroom.…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Video Games, Vignettes, Science Instruction
Trout, Joseph Jude; Murphy, Casey; Vukicevich, Morgan – Physics Teacher, 2019
Active learning techniques are generally considered to be any classroom activities in which students become an active participant in learning, instead of a passive listener to a lecture. Service learning activities are generally experiential (real life) and reflective problem-based learning activities in which students enrolled in an academic…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Service Learning, Physics, Calculus
Okcu, Betül; Sozbilir, Mustafa – Physics Teacher, 2019
The aim of this study was to provide an effective teaching of the transformation of electrical energy into light energy to eighth-grade middle school students with visual impairment. The needs of these students were identified prior to designing the material. Their general and special needs were also taken into account. A case study approach was…
Descriptors: Electronics, Visual Impairments, Energy, Electronic Equipment
Rohr, James; Wang, Si-Yin; Nesterenko, Vitali F. – Physics Teacher, 2018
Our motivation for this article is for students to realize that opportunities for discovery are all around them. Discoveries that can still puzzle present day researchers. Here we explore an observation by a middle school student concerning the production of what appears to be water-like "ripples" produced in aluminum foil when placed…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Observation, Middle School Students
Merhar, Vida Kariž; Capuder, Rok; Maroševic, Timotej; Artac, Sonja; Mozer, Alenka; Štekovic, Maja – Physics Teacher, 2016
In the school year 2012-2013 about 50 students (Fig. 1), managed by mentors (teachers from the middle school Gimnazija Vic in Ljubljana, Slovenia) created an atmospheric probe and launched it into an altitude of more than 30 km above Earth's surface. The aim of this "space expedition" was to take pictures of Earth and to measure how air…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Physics, Earth Science, Science Experiments
Alberghi, Stefano; Foschi, Alessandro; Pezzi, Giovanni; Ortolani, Fabio – Physics Teacher, 2007
An activity called "Project Physics, a Classroom Without Walls" was started during the spring of 2003 at the amusement park in Mirabilandia (Italy). Many thousands of students from Italian middle and high schools are today participating in the initiative. Under the guidance of trained tutors, they perform physics experiments on some of…
Descriptors: Physics, Foreign Countries, Science Experiments, Middle School Students
Hagedorn, Eric A. – Physics Teacher, 2006
For several years physics faculty at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) have taught physics to pre-service elementary and middle school teachers in an unusual location: the local elementary school! The participating pre-service elementary and middle school teachers are typically in their last semester and are fully immersed in their…
Descriptors: Physics, Preservice Teachers, Middle School Teachers, Elementary School Teachers
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