PhET Interactive Simulations:Effective Classroom Use - Michael ...
PhET Interactive Simulations:Effective Classroom Use - Michael ... PhET Interactive Simulations:Effective Classroom Use - Michael ...
Worse: In-Class activity or Lab Better: • Give directions on how to use • Provide activity and do not the sim offer any pointers on the sim itself • Result: Students are nervous, reluctant to try things, ask lots of questions about sim use, not learning goals. • Result: Students explore uninhibitedly, quickly find/learn all the controls, become the “owner” of the sim.
Example Activity: Masses and Springs • 5-10 minutes of play – No instructions. • Challenge 1:Using data from the sim, make a graph that shows whether or not the springs obey Hooke’s Law. • Challenge 2: What is the mass of the red weight • Challenge 3: Determine the spring constant in two different ways: with your graph from (1) and with the stopwatch.
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Example Activity: Masses and Springs<br />
• 5-10 minutes of play – No instructions.<br />
• Challenge 1:Using data from the sim, make a<br />
graph that shows whether or not the springs<br />
obey Hooke’s Law.<br />
• Challenge 2: What is the mass of the red<br />
weight<br />
• Challenge 3: Determine the spring constant in<br />
two different ways: with your graph from (1)<br />
and with the stopwatch.
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