Development of a Discovery-Based Physics Laboratory Course for Prospective Pre-College Teachers

一门新的实验课程“发现物理”，将通过购买设备来增强学生在不同环境下测量波动现象以及测量电和磁现象的能力。选择这些主题是因为它们对非科学专业学生的可及性和兴趣，以及它们在物理学中的重要性。本课程采用发现的方式进行教学，授课时间最少，重点是引导学生发现重要的物理原理。资金将用于为更多的学生购买足够的设备和更复杂的设备，这些设备将产生更精确的定量结果，并减少学生的一层困惑。这门课程特别针对那些计划成为小学教师的学生，使用了大多数教育专家声称应该在小学课堂上使用的许多相同的设备和理念，并且有50%的女生入学。由于这种类型的课程没有可用的教科书，因此将制作一个大学级别的模块化发现工作手册，可以在学生学习时提供给他们。

A new laboratory course, Discovering Physics, will be enhanced by the purchase of equipment for student measurements of wave phenomena in different contexts and for measurements of electrical and magnetic phenomena. These topics have been chosen for their accessibility and interest to non-science majors and their importance in physics. The course is taught using a discovery approach with a minimum of lectures and an emphasis on a guided approach to student discovery of important physical principles. Funds will be used to purchase sufficient equipment for additional students and for more sophisticated equipment that will yield more precise quantitative results and reduce one layer of student confusion. The course is oriented especially toward students planning to become elementary school teachers, uses much of the same equipment and philosophy that most education experts claim should be used in the elementary school classroom, and has a fifty percent enrollment of female students. Since there are no available textbooks for a course of this type, a university-level modular Discovery Workbook will be produced that can be made available to students as they learn.