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

该补助金提供仪器，以支持基于微积分的介绍性物理研讨会，其格式和内容扩展到“超级课程”，由多学科教师团队授课，整合了常见的低年级科学/数学/工程核心课程中的材料。 该课程利用互动技术来产生一个高度可视化和动态的环境，创造兴趣和兴奋，激励和产生对学习经验的积极态度。 目标是在坚实的概念基础上发展认知技能。 学习是榜样驱动的，从现象的观察归纳到一般原理。 图形，图形，数字，文字和分析方法的相互作用，物理系统的分析强调。 协调的活动利用当地开发和商业上可获得的计算机工具。 采用的核心技术是（1）通过外部探头接口进行数据收集和显示，（2）视频数字化和分析，以及（3）通过仿真进行系统建模。 自助辅助活动库允许不同能力的学生探索灵活的路径。 学生和教师的支持材料被设计为协调的独立模块，以确保可移植性和灵活使用的课程元素在不同的教学环境。

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.