25
modeling-friendly physics labs!
As of summer
2016, you can freely download 25 modeling-friendly physics labs/activities by
Dwain Desbien and Tom Okuma, at
http://physicsworkshops.org/Labs_Activties/labs.html
They were
developed at writing conferences as part of the ATE Project for Physics
Faculty. These conferences brought two-year college (TYC) and high school (HS)
physics teachers together to write, test in their classrooms and provide feedback
to the project PIÕs. The 25 activities have been the most tested and have the
widest applicability to courses that TYC and HS teachers teach.
These labs/activities were not written
to necessarily fill a typical 3-hour lab time slot. Some may only take an hour
and some will span over several class periods. For most of them, there are
instructor notes.
Note: Expert modeler Dwain Desbien, Estrella
Mountain Community College, was a Principal Investigator of this NSF grant,
along with Tom O'Kuma of Lee College near Houston, Texas.
Dwain Desbien contributed
MANY instructional resources for Modeling Instruction in college physics or AP
(algebra-based & calculus-based). You can download them at
http://modeling.asu.edu/rup_workshop/resources.html
Or visit the ASU
modeling legacy website: http://modeling.asu.edu
. Click on "Remodeling University Physics", then on
"resources".
DwainÕs doctoral dissertation, on
modeling discourse management, is at http://modeling.asu.edu/Projects-Resources.html
.