Please share the physics lesson, lab or demo that you feel was most successful during the past few months of online learning, and describe why you feel it was especially successful.

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Melissa Chessler

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Jun 1, 2020, 8:23:03 PM6/1/20
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Please share the physics lesson, lab or demo that you feel was most successful during the past few months of online learning, and describe why you feel it was especially successful.

Matthew Reischer

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Jun 2, 2020, 9:59:39 AM6/2/20
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We are not present when students work through labs or simulations during Remote Learning.
Therefore, we can not quickly answer questions about what we want done, what features of the simulation the student should focus on, or even how to answer our questions.

In the book, The Design of Everyday Things, by Donald Norman, he speaks of providing "affordances" to make the function of things obvious.
He has a free Udacity course based on his principles.

I have tried to adapt my labs (and those of others) using these principles.

One such lab on electrostatics using PhET sims is here:
High School, algebra-based, roughly grade 11.


This link allows you to comment. 
I would love your help and suggestions in improving it!

Craig Halpern

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Jun 2, 2020, 10:30:52 AM6/2/20
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I designed a lab to teach circuits and both my honors and college prep students did well on the assessment.


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Series and Parallel.pptx

CarriEve Horna

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Jun 2, 2020, 11:27:36 AM6/2/20
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Before the pandemic, I was going to complete a lab with my AP 2 kids focusing on Double Slit Interference. I had already completed it with one class, and then schools closed before I could complete it with the other. I managed to modify and create videos that allowed students to successfully complete the lab. I'll attach it below, along with the video description I created that explained the expectations for the lab. As a note, the video titled "PhET Simulation" was created when the original PhET stopped existing for a few hours (I know, RIGHT when my kids needed to use it). The video is just explaining the Java version that was still available for the PhET. Also, if anyone has any comments, please let me know! I would love to make this lab better.


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Reischer, Matthew

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Jun 2, 2020, 11:58:11 AM6/2/20
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Please change access to all 3 docs to "Anyone with the link can ... (view or comment, your choice)"

I can't open them.

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CarriEve Horna

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Jun 2, 2020, 11:58:48 AM6/2/20
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Gotcha! Will do that right now.

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CarriEve Horna

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Jun 2, 2020, 12:01:15 PM6/2/20
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Matt, let me know if it worked.


On Tuesday, June 2, 2020 at 11:58:11 AM UTC-4, Reischer, Matthew wrote:
Please change access to all 3 docs to "Anyone with the link can ... (view or comment, your choice)"

I can't open them.

On Tue, Jun 2, 2020 at 11:27 AM CarriEve Horna <carrie...@gmail.com> wrote:
Before the pandemic, I was going to complete a lab with my AP 2 kids focusing on Double Slit Interference. I had already completed it with one class, and then schools closed before I could complete it with the other. I managed to modify and create videos that allowed students to successfully complete the lab. I'll attach it below, along with the video description I created that explained the expectations for the lab. As a note, the video titled "PhET Simulation" was created when the original PhET stopped existing for a few hours (I know, RIGHT when my kids needed to use it). The video is just explaining the Java version that was still available for the PhET. Also, if anyone has any comments, please let me know! I would love to make this lab better.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1W-zXeS2eKccOSx55_0Tj-mGNAKWQbtyFC7AtpaIbRp8/edit?usp=sharing            (Remote Lab)

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Please share the physics lesson, lab or demo that you feel was most successful during the past few months of online learning, and describe why you feel it was especially successful.

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Reischer, Matthew

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Jun 2, 2020, 12:31:24 PM6/2/20
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Works great now.

I like your layout for the lab, very clean and friendly.

You have some hardware at home!




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CarriEve Horna

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Jun 2, 2020, 12:32:47 PM6/2/20
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Nah, just took it from school! 

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Reischer, Matthew

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Jun 3, 2020, 1:28:43 PM6/3/20
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Would you mind attaching the assessment?

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Craig Halpern

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Jun 3, 2020, 1:34:01 PM6/3/20
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Here are the assessments I used for them.  I know they have resources for the test, but they are challenged and that is the goal.


On Wednesday, June 3, 2020 at 1:28:43 PM UTC-4, Reischer, Matthew wrote:
Would you mind attaching the assessment?

On Tue, Jun 2, 2020 at 10:31 AM Craig Halpern <chal...@ewingboe.org> wrote:
I designed a lab to teach circuits and both my honors and college prep students did well on the assessment.

On Monday, June 1, 2020 at 8:23:03 PM UTC-4, Melissa Chessler wrote:
Please share the physics lesson, lab or demo that you feel was most successful during the past few months of online learning, and describe why you feel it was especially successful.

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