Derek MullerÕ videos that include na•ve
conceptions
Derek Muller earned a
doctorate in Physics Education Research at the University of Sydney. His
doctoral research shows that videos can be effective tools for learning. His
Ph.D. dissertation is entitled "Designing Effective Multimedia for Physics
Education." You can download it at
http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/super/theses/PhD(Muller).pdf
As a follow-up to his
dissertation work, Muller created and distributed a series of videos via the
web under the label of VERITASIUM. These can be viewed on YouTube.
His YouTube website is
http://www.youtube.com/1veritasium. On that website, his playlists are
organized by misconceptions, experiments, etc. -- rather than concepts. I find it helpful to organize his
videos by concept, for class use, so I made a list of almost 60 of his basic
videos as of April 2012. They are
useful for middle school and high school students, and adults. I find them
delightful: good-humored, insightful, thought-provoking. – Jane Jackson
HIS MOTIVATION AND EXPERTISE:
MATTER:
What Is Water Made Of?
FORCE AND
MOTION, NEWTONÕS LAWS:
Egg Experiment to Demonstrate Inertia
Calculating
Gravitational Attraction http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SN1Q5ru2fI0
(somewhat more
complex physics)
How To Curve A Baseball Or Swing A
Cricket Ball
Spool
Trick Part 1
Spinning
Tube Trick
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQTVcaA3PQw&feature=related
Spinning
Tube Trick Explained
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rAiZR_zasg&feature=relmfu
(He has more
videos on AP-B & C level mechanics; not included here.)
EARTH AND
SPACE SCIENCE CONNECTIONS:
SCIENTIFIC
NOTATION:
ENERGY
SOURCES, NUCLEAR RADIATION:
PRESSURE AND
TEMPERATURE:
AIR
PRESSURE:
WAVES:
Sound
+ Fire = Rubens' Tube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZcOusmB4Ls&feature=related
LIGHT:
THE SPEED OF
LIGHT IS THE UNIVERSAL CONSTANT:
CHEMISTRY
CONNECTIONS:
JJ
Thomson's Plum Pudding Model of the Atom
Cathode
Rays Lead to Thomson's Model of the Atom
Atomic
Rant
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=357_DHp3Nys&feature=relmfu
THE BOTTOM
LINE:
This document is at http://modeling.asu.edu/modeling/weblinks.html.