Faculty of Education
Master of Teaching
Science Curriculum
Double Method Elective:
PHYSICS
|
This page is constantly being updated to make it more useful. To help make this site more valuable for you as a resource please send any comments or questions to: cooper@physics.usyd.edu.au |
|
"In the matter of
physics, the first lessons should contain nothing but what is experimental
and interesting to see. A pretty
experiment is in itself often more valuable than twenty formulae extracted
from our minds." Albert Einstein "The fatal
pedagogical error is to throw answers, like stones, at the heads of those who
have not yet asked the questions."
Paul Tillich |
NOTICES
PHYSICS Stage 6
Resources
produced by students in the M.Teach degree.
·
8.3 Electrical Energy in the Home
Teachers
Guide
·
9.4 From
Ideas to Implementation
|
|
COURSE DETAILS |
|
|
University of Sydney, School of Physics - Junior Physics
Resources Web Page |
|
|
High School Teacher Physics Resources – Australian Institute of
Physics |
|
|
Science Curriculum Index: Master of Teaching – links to many science and science education sites.
|
|
|
External Physics Links |
|
|
Physics Education References |
|
|
UniServe Science - The general purpose is to enhance the quality of
university science teaching by maintaining and disseminating information on
up-to-date and innovative materials for use throughout Australia. UniServe
Science publishes reviews, criticism and ideas related to teaching and
learning materials for tertiary science |
|
|
Study Hints |
|
|
Resource Letter: PER-1: Physics Education Research. The purpose of the
resource letter is to provide an overview of research on the learning and
teaching of physics. Reference American Journal of Physics Am.J.Phys. 67 (9), September 1999 |
|
|
AAPT American Association of Physics Teachers - a very important and
useful association Free
access to AJP http://ojps.aip.org |
|
|
IUPAP - International Union of Pure & Applied Physics: To stimulate and
facilitate international cooperation in physics, and the worldwide
development of science. The International Union of Pure and Applied Physics has recently
published a book entitled Physics 2000, Physics
as it enters a New Millennium. The book consists of brief
reports from each of the IUPAP Commissions and Affiliated Commissions about
major advances in its field in the last part of the century and predictions
about how it is expected to develop and what it might achieve in the next
decade or two. The authors were asked
to write for readers who are not specialists in the field of their
commission, including high school teachers.
The strength of the collection is that each report is written by a recognized
international expert in the field with a passion for his particular part of
it. They show that the subject is very much alive and still full of
intriguing surprises and fascinating promise The book is now available for free downloading as a PDF file (464K) from the IUPAP web site at http://www.iupap.org/reports.html |
|
|
Interactive
Physics - modelling and simulation software |
|
|
Vernier
- supplier of physics educational software |
|
|
Texas
Instruments - data acquisition hardware / software with a calculator |
|
|
Pasco
Scientific - supplier of physics educational equipment |
|
|
Educational
Innovations - supplier of physics educational equipment |
|
|
Tools for Scientific Thinking & Student-Oriented Science - Since 1986 the Center
for Science and Mathematics Teaching at Tufts University has successfully
addressed a problem that has become a national priority: improving the
teaching and learning of science in the nation's schools and universities.
The Center, directed by Ronald Thornton, develops curricula, activities, and
computer tools which allow students to participate actively in their own
learning and to construct scientific knowledge for themselves. Using these
materials the students learn directly from the physical world. The Center's
substantial conceptual-learning research and evaluation program guides the
development of materials. |
|
|
Modelling Workshop Project
- Arizona State University: over more than a decade to integrate
insights from physics education research with classroom experience of
exceptional inservice teachers. In a series of intensive four-week workshops
over two years, teachers improve their physics content knowledge and are equipped
with a robust
teaching methodology for developing student abilities to: *
make sense of physical experience, * understand scientific claims, *
articulate coherent opinions of their own and defend them with cogent arguments,
*evaluate evidence in support of justified belief. More
specifically, teachers learn to: *
ground their teaching in a well-defined pedagogical framework (Modelling
Theory), rather than following rules of thumb; * organize course content
around scientific models as coherent units of structured knowledge; * engage
students collaboratively in making and using models to describe, to explain,
to predict, to design and control physical phenomena; * involve students in using computers as
scientific tools for collecting, organizing, analysing, visualizing, and
modelling real data; * assess student understanding in more meaningful ways
and experiment with more authentic means of assessment; *
continuously improve and update instruction with new software, curriculum
materials and insights from educational research; * work collaboratively in
action research teams to mutually improve their teaching practice. |
|
|
PER
at Kansas State University - see Visualising Quantum Mechanics. |
|
|
NJIT
- Ronald Gautrea: see physics education publications. |
|
|
PER
at North Arizona University - Dan MacIsaac. |
|
|
PER
at University of. Maryland. |
|
|
Fizzics Fizzle - Your
Interactive Guide to Physics! http://library.thinkquest.org/16600/games/orbit/ |
|
|
Conceptual
test links. |
|
|
PER
Indiana University - Richard Hake. |
|
|
Bibliography of Student Alternative Frameworks with over 4500 entries, coded
according to subject area is still available to all via ftp from your web
browser. URL: ftp://physlrnr.boisestate.edu/plrserve/pub/physlrnr |
|
|
PHYS-L is a list dedicated to physics and the teaching of physics with
about 650 subscribers, the majority of whom are physics educators. Subscriber
email addresses represent over 35 countries, and over 100 colleges and
universities in the US alone. Traffic varies from zero to forty messages/day
with an average of about ten per day. All postings are archived for
electronic search and retrieval. Noninflammatory, professional and courteous
postings intended to inform members on how to better understand, teach and learn
physics are always welcome. |
|
|
Computer
Supported Intentional Learning Environments. |
|
|
Physics First For the past 130 years, physics has been an integral part of science curriculum at the high school level. Its current vertical position, established about 100 years ago, is now strongly challenged. The national reform movements, inclusive in Project 2061 and Standards, and documents such as Nation at Risk (1983), that responded to low science scores and an ever growing gap between science/technology and society, have all been the backbone of Leon Lederman's ARISE (American Renaissance in Science Education) educational reform. Using the theories of hierarchical learning, constructivism, and findings that show that prior knowledge of physics greatly enhances learning in chemistry and that knowledge of chemistry is beneficial to learning biology makes this reform worth examining. |
|
|
Richard Fielder - Resources in Science &
Engineering Education. |
|
|
Michael Wittmann: Physics Education Research. |
|
|
Physics & Geology at NKU. |
|
|
Socratic Dialog-Inducing (SDI) Labs. |
|
|
PER North Carolina State University. |
|
|
Switching Students on to Science - conference. |
|
|
Teaching Electromagnetism Using Advanced
Technologies. |
|
|
ASCILITE - Australian Society for Computers in
Tertiary Education. |
|
|
PERConference 98 - University of Nebraska-Lincoln:
Proceedings Online. |
|
|
Science teaching positions in the USA. |
|
|
Physics Education Research – referred journal
on-line http://www.physics.umd.edu/perg/pers/prepub.htm |
|
|
Context Rich Problems University of Minnesota Department of Physics http://www.physics.umn.edu/groups/physed/Research/CRP/crintro.html |
|
|
|
How do I learn how to do Action Research?
Meridian: Winter
2000: Action Research
Explorations in
Learning & Instruction: The Theory Into Practice Database TIP is a tool
intended to make learning and instructional theory more accessible to
educators. The database contains brief summaries of 50 major theories of learning
and instruction. These theories can also be accessed by learning domains and
concepts.
http://www.gwu.edu/~tip/index.html
Knowing
without metaphysics: aspects of the radical
constructivist position by Ernst von Glasersfeld
http://www.mcgill.ca/douglas/fdg/kjf/17-TAGLA.htm
PennState
College of education – The American Centre for the study of Distance Education
http://www.hcc.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/online/amer-ctr.htm
DANCY, MELISSA HAYES. Investigating Animations for Assessment with an Animated Version of the Force Concept Inventory.
http://webphysics.davidson.edu/faculty/mhd/dissertation/
Home
learning tools
http://users.netaccess.co.nz/mindtools/
Mazur
Group – Harvard University
http://mazur-www.harvard.edu./
Ian Cooper
School of Physics
University of Sydney