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Jan 8, 2021

These four questions will help your students think about potential

I have been going through a lot of the clicker-type conceptual physics questions that I have collected over the years from other physics teachers who have been gracious enough to share them, when I came across a sequence of four questions related to the potential and potential energy of a…

Iteachphysics

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These four questions will make your students think about potential
These four questions will make your students think about potential
Iteachphysics

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Sep 4, 2020

Adjusting to remote teaching

Three weeks in and I’m trying to learn how to steer this ship — I’m getting to the end of the third week of 100% online physics classes. I don’t consider this true online learning, because I think if I had chosen to do this, I would have probably spent close to a year planning how to do it right. …

Teaching

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Teaching

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Aug 31, 2020

Another alternative representation — Energy bar charts

Example problem — Box on an incline — Here’s a problem that I once gave on an in-class assessment: A 2.6-kg block slides down a frictionless incline from point A to point B. A force (magnitude P = 3.4 N) acts on the block between A and B, as shown in the above figure. Points A and B…

Physics

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Another alternative representation — Energy bar charts
Another alternative representation — Energy bar charts
Physics

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Aug 27, 2020

Alternative assessment idea: the infographic

Help students tap into their creative side for giving alternative assessments in online classes. — This semester in an effort to make my general education physics class have assessments that are slightly-less googleable, I have decided to ask all my students to convert the problems that I am asking them on the assessments into graphical formats such as a comic strip or infographic. The above…

Physics

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Alternative assessment idea: the infographic
Alternative assessment idea: the infographic
Physics

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Aug 18, 2020

Example problem — Projectile motion

When I wrote how I plan to make exam questions un-googleable, what I probably should have said was less googleable. Let’s go with that instead. Let’s try an example of a problem that is “less googleable”. Here’s what I want to start with: Problem: Lisa throws a stone horizontally from…

Physics

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Example problem — Projectile motion
Example problem — Projectile motion
Physics

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Aug 14, 2020

Making exam questions ungoogle-able

Here’s my challenge Teaching an online calculus-based physics class, asynchronously. Using a standards-based assessment and reporting framework. Trying to have an accessible online class which uses universal design principles while also fairly being able to assess student learning. The third item means that (for the moment) I’m not planning to have timed assessments…

Iteachphysics

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Making exam questions ungoogle-able
Making exam questions ungoogle-able
Iteachphysics

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Andrew Morrison

Andrew Morrison

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Physics professor with research interest in musical acoustics

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