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Sixth Grade Lesson Plan: Heat Moves, Getaway Special Team 2009
Sixth Grade Lesson Plan: Heat Moves, Getaway Special Team 2009
Education and Outreach
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Fifth Grade Lesson Plan: Solid, Liquid, And Gas, Getaway Special Team 2009
Fifth Grade Lesson Plan: Solid, Liquid, And Gas, Getaway Special Team 2009
Education and Outreach
No abstract provided.
Conceptual Development About Motion And Force In Elementary And Middle School Students, Dewey I. Dykstra, Dale R. Sweet
Conceptual Development About Motion And Force In Elementary And Middle School Students, Dewey I. Dykstra, Dale R. Sweet
Physics Faculty Publications and Presentations
Methods of physics education research were applied to find what kinds of changes in 4th, 6th, and 8th grade student understanding of motion can occur and at what age. Such findings are necessary for the physics community to effectively discharge its role in advising and assisting pre-college physics education. Prior to and after instruction the students were asked to carefully describe several demonstrated accelerated motions. Most pre-instruction descriptions were of the direction of motion only. After instruction, many more of the students gave descriptions of the motion as continuously changing. Student responses to the diagnostic and to the activity materials …