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Focus on Physics: How E = mc2 Helps Us Understand Nuclear Fission and Fusion
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This column helps teachers build an understanding of physical principles. Nuclear physics has an undeserved reputation for being tough for students. This article may reduce this “toughness” by showing how Einstein’s…
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Promoting Physical Science to Education Majors: Making Connections between Science and Teaching
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We address student attitudes toward physical science content knowledge and skills by modeling pedagogy appropriate for the K–8 classroom. Attitude measurements show that students are initially reticent in their approach…
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Games Students Play: Teaming up in physics class leads to cooperative learning
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The case for motivating students through cooperative learning has been made and supported throughout the last two decades. Two well-known cooperative learning techniques—Student Teams-Achievement Divisions (STAD) and…
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The authors designed a physics course for prospective elementary and middle school teachers to foster aspects of scientific thinking recommended in reform documents. Because the elementary school curriculum focuses…
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This study measures the effects of increased faculty–student engagement on student learning, success rates, and perceptions in a Physical Oceanography course. The study separately implemented two teaching methods that…
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This article presents implementation details and findings of a National Science Foundation Scholarship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Program (S-STEM) consisting of many high-impact practices to…
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DNA as a Binary Code: How the Physical Structure of Nucleotide Bases Carries Information
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The DNA triplet code also functions as a binary code. Because double-ring compounds cannot bind to double-ring compounds in the DNA code, the sequence of bases classified simply as purines or pyrimidines can encode for…
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Video-Based Labs for Introductory Physics Courses: Analyzing and Graphing Motion on Video
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Video-based labs are a powerful tool for improving student understanding of one of the most difficult and important topics in physics: graphs. This article describes common student graphing difficulties, the history of…
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Preservice elementary teachers in a conceptual physics course were given multiple resources to use during several inquiry activities in order to investigate how materials were chosen, used, and valued. These students…
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