What about send home lab kits? Is it feasibl?

[Jacqueline McGuinness]

As we look at the Fall 2020-21 school year, I was considering putting a kit together that students take home to complete some basic labs: vectors, force, motion, pendulum, center of mass (just because), circuits, etc... They would get string, scissors, protractors, paper etc. Is this a good idea? Guess we'll see. It would give all students the ability to carry out the lab. They send in pictures, it would promote more independent learning which was a big problem for us, and give them more experience with real world learning. I tried is with some labs-- egg drop, pendulum, projectile motion... They had a question, then they had to design and carry out a lab to answer it. I think it generally went ok. They supplied their own stuff. Some had and some didn't. So that we could ensure all students had the base materials, we thought of this idea.

[Matthew Reischer]

I had the same idea, but haven't done anything with it yet.

You could start a shared list of items and we (PTAG) could collaborate on it. (on Google Sheets?)

Perhaps a different list for Mechanics and EM.

Estimated cost should be included, as admin will have to approve it.

[Jacqueline McGuinness]

Thanks. I will work on this.

[Jennifer Mosher]

It may help to look at existing lab boxes sold for online physics courses (e.g. Johns Hopkins CTY online AP Physics 1 and AP Physics 2)

https://www.qualitysciencelabs.com/johns-hopkins-cty/

Best, 

Jennifer Mosher

Science Instructor

Moorestown Friends School

(856) 235-2900 x318

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On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 10:36 PM Jacqueline McGuinness <jmcgu...@burlcoschools.org> wrote:

Thanks. I will work on this.

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