Hands-On Physics Outside the Classroom

物理(13)这个项目建立在工作室物理的经验基础上，一种综合的讲课-实验室形式，一个技术增强的学习环境，协作的小组工作，以及高水平的师生互动。该项目正在利用新的硬件和软件，当通过USB端口连接到PC时，可以提供类似于目前仪表化教室中使用的实验室设备的功能--学生个人可以负担得起的成本。在教师的指导下，学生为每个给定的问题设计自己的实验程序，在课堂上测试他们的想法，然后每个学生在课外使用他/她选择的时间和地点设置的基于PC的个人仪器完成练习。学生可以随时随地进行动手实验，从而为他们提供了新的机会，让他们通过实践经验修修补补并获得宝贵的见解。伦斯勒及其合作机构正在设计、开发和实施六项物理I(力学)和五项物理II(电磁学和电路)的带回家活动。评估活动由奥尔巴尼州立大学评估联盟的评估专家指导，以评估项目成果对学生学习的影响。来自合作学校的合作者正在参与一个交流项目，在该项目中，教师将在他们的母校和合作伙伴S教授课程内容，并参与一个K-12课堂拓展计划。该项目的智力价值在于利用伦斯勒开发的教育技术，将动手活动扩展到课堂之外。该项目正在产生一套宝贵的经过审查的资源和教学方法，可以被其他机构广泛采用。该项目的更广泛影响包括为学生提供随时随地以自己的速度进行实验和进一步探索的能力，同时还为物理教师(以及普通STEM教师)提供创新的教育技术，供他们在课堂内外使用。动手活动可以产生强大的学生参与度。

Physics (13) This project builds on experience with Studio Physics, an integrated lecture-laboratory format, a technology-enhanced learning environment, collaborative group work, and a high level of faculty-student interaction. The project is leveraging new hardware and software that, when connected to a PC via a USB port, provides functionality similar to that of the laboratory equipment currently used in an instrumented classroom -- at an affordable cost for individual students to own. With guidance from their instructors, students devise their own experimental procedures for each given problem, test their ideas in class, and then each student completes the activity outside of class with his/her personal PC-based instrumentation set at his/her choice of time and place. Students are able to perform hands-on experiments anywhere/anytime, thus facilitating new opportunities for them to tinker and gain valuable insight through practical experience.Six take-home activities for Physics I (mechanics) and five for Physics II (electromagnetics and circuits) are being designed, developed and implemented in physics and engineering courses at Rensselaer and partner institutions. An evaluation activity is guided by assessment experts from the Evaluation Consortium at the State University at Albany to assess what impact project outcomes have on student learning. Collaborators from the partnering schools are participating in an exchange program in which faculty teach the course content at both their home institution and at the partner''s, as well as participate in a K-12 classroom outreach program.The intellectual merit of the project is to leverage Rensselaer-developed educational technology in order to extend hands-on activities beyond the classroom. The project is producing a valuable set of vetted resources and pedagogy that can be widely adopted by other institutions.The broader impacts of this project include providing students the ability to perform and further explore experiments at their own pace anywhere/anytime while additionally providing physics teachers (as well as general STEM teachers) with innovative educational technology to utilize in/out of the classroom. Hands-on activity can produce powerful student engagement.