Interactive Tools for the Introductory Physics Laboratory as the Basis for an Integrated Workshop Curriculum

这项拨款提供仪器来支持以微积分为基础的介绍性物理研讨会，该研讨会的形式和内容扩展为“超级课程”，由多学科教师团队教授，整合了普通低年级科学/数学/工程核心课程中的材料。本课程利用互动技术创造高度视觉化和动态化的环境，创造兴趣和刺激，以激励和产生积极的学习态度。目标是在牢固的概念基础上发展认知技能。学习是以身作则，从对现象的观察归纳到一般原则。强调物理系统分析的图像、图形、数值、语言和分析方法的相互作用。协调的活动利用当地开发的和商业上可获得的计算机工具。所使用的核心技术是(1)通过接口与外部探头进行数据采集和显示，(2)视频数字化和分析，以及(3)通过仿真进行系统建模。自助辅助活动的图书馆为不同能力的学生提供了灵活的探索路径。学生和教师支持材料被设计为协调的独立模块，以确保在不同的教学环境中可运输和灵活使用课程元素。

This grant provides instrumentation to support a calculus- based introductory physics workshop whose format and content is extended to a "supercourse," taught by a multidisciplinary faculty team, that integrates the material found in the common lower division science/mathematics/engineering core curriculum. The course utilizes interactive technologies to produce a highly visual and dynamic environment, creating interest and excitement to motivate and to engender positive attitudes toward the learning experience. The goal is the development of cognitive skills built on a firm conceptual base. Learning is example driven, inductively leading from observation of phenomena to general principle. The interplay of pictorial, graphical, numerical, verbal, and analytic approaches to the analysis of physical systems is stressed. Coordinated activities utilize locally developed and commercially available computer-based tools. The core technologies utilized are (1) data collection and display by interface to external probes, (2) video digitization and analysis, and (3) systems modeling through simulation. Libraries of self-guided auxiliary activities allow flexible paths of exploration for students of different abilities. Student and instructor support materials are designed as coordinated standalone modules to ensure transportability and flexible use of curricular elements in different teaching contexts.