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

一个新的实验室课程，发现物理，将是 通过购买学生测量设备得到加强 不同背景下的波动现象， 电磁现象。 这些主题已经 选择他们的可访问性和兴趣，非科学 专业及其在物理学中的重要性 课程讲授 使用发现方法，最少讲课， 强调引导学生发现 重要的物理原则。 资金将用于购买 为更多的学生提供足够的设备， 先进的设备，将产生更精确的 量化结果，减少一层学生 混乱. 这门课是专门为学生开设的 计划成为小学教师，使用大量的 和大多数教育专家 主张应该在小学课堂上使用， 有百分之五十的女生入学率。 以来 这类课程没有可用的教科书， 将制作一本大学级的模块化《探索工作手册》 在学生学习的过程中提供给他们。

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.