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Physics Misconception Center Homepage - 1 views

www.physics.montana.edu/...misconceptions

misconceptions

shared by John Burk on 21 Nov 11 - Cached

John Burk on 21 Nov 11

great site that explains student misconceptions in physics

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The Ultimate Race JET+CAR+MOTORCYCLE! - YouTube - 1 views

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physics kinematics 1Dmotion

shared by Ken Gibson on 22 Nov 11 - No Cached

Ken Gibson on 22 Nov 11

groups make set of motion graphs for motorcycle, car, & plane

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Can you analyze me now? Cell phones bring spectroscopy to the classroom | News Bureau |... - 1 views

www.news.illinois.edu/...heeline_spectrophotometry.html

spectroscopy chemistry physics project DIY

shared by John Burk on 28 Sep 11 - No Cached

John Burk on 28 Sep 11

how to build a cell phone spectrometer

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How to Read a Scientific Paper : Uncertain Principles - 1 views

scienceblogs.com/...to_read_a_scientific_paper.php

research how-to

shared by John Burk on 10 Jan 12 - No Cached

John Burk on 10 Jan 12

Really great blog post with detailed instructions on how to read a scientific paper. If you wanted to instruct students on this skill, you could simply give them this post.

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Photo: The Bounty of Species in a Single Scoop of Seafloor Mud | Wired Science | Wired.com - 1 views

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biodiversity biology

shared by John Burk on 08 Jan 12 - No Cached

A mere handful of seafloor mud may contain as many species as are found in a square meter of tropical rainforest. The fantastic assemblage seen above was gathered from a single scoop of mud, about 2 inches deep and 5 inches across.
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US students need new way of learning science - 1 views

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science_education_reform

shared by John Burk on 05 Apr 12 - No Cached

Traditionally, science in the United States has been taught in isolated disciplines such as chemistry, biology and physics without clear connections being made between the subjects. The 8+1 effort encourages K-12 teachers to use the eight science concepts to build understanding within and between their courses as students advance through the grades.
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Today's frontiers in science often occur at these disciplinary edges. Aided by the explosion in technology and scientific discoveries, new fields are arising that were hardly imagined a generation ago such as synthetic biology, digital organisms and genomics.
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Whiteboard Speed Dating « Physics! Blog! - 1 views

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whiteboarding

shared by John Burk on 22 Jan 12 - No Cached

John Burk on 22 Jan 12

An excellent idea to mix things up with whiteboarding

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Valerie Bennett on 25 Jan 12

This will give students a great way to look into the mindset of how their friends work when problem solving.

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APS Observer - Improving Classroom Performance by Challenging Student Misconceptions Ab... - 1 views

www.psychologicalscience.org/...getArticle.cfm

metacognition

shared by John Burk on 22 Aug 11 - No Cached

John Burk on 22 Aug 11

awesome paper on metacognition. Lays out a complete metacognative curriculum.

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Robert Ryshke on 22 Aug 11

Thanks for sharing this John! Looks interesting. I put it out on Twitter as well.

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MythBusters: The Gentleman Scientist : Video : Discovery Channel - 1 views

dsc.discovery.com/...s-the-gentleman-scientist.html

video light optics speed_of_light wonde

shared by John Burk on 16 Feb 12 - No Cached

John Burk on 16 Feb 12

great video of Adam Savage explaining Fizeau's measuremnt of the speed of light.

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NYC water towers - 1 views

kottke.org/nyc-water-towers

pressure fluids

shared by John Burk on 21 Oct 11 - No Cached

John Burk on 21 Oct 11

lots of places you could go with this. Draw what band structure would look like for taller or narrower tower.

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How You Were Made on Devour.com - 1 views

devour.com/...how-you-were-made

biology conception

shared by John Burk on 22 Oct 11 - No Cached

John Burk on 22 Oct 11

great computer animation of conception

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Not Even Wrong - 1 views

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physics

shared by anonymous on 30 Aug 11 - Cached

anonymous on 30 Aug 11

Peter Woit blog about string theory

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Download The Universe - 1 views

www.downloadtheuniverse.com

ebook science

shared by John Burk on 22 Feb 12 - No Cached

John Burk on 22 Feb 12

great site with sciecne e-book reviews.

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Eight great figures summarizing the evidence for a "human fingerprint" on recent climat... - 1 views

thinkprogress.org/...print-on-recent-climate-change

Climate change Global Warming Environment_Stuff envsci

shared by John Burk on 11 Sep 11 - No Cached

John Burk on 11 Sep 11

very interesting post with 8 graphs showing indicators that climate change is man made

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OK Go - This Too Shall Pass - Rube Goldberg Machine version - Official - YouTube - 1 views

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energy project_ideas video physics rube goldberg

shared by John Burk on 25 Jan 12 - Cached

John Burk on 25 Jan 12

nice video of rube goldberg machine set to music by OK GO.

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Non-Inertial Teaching | Teaching girls. Teaching physics. - 1 views

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AP-physics physics

shared by John Burk on 04 Feb 12 - No Cached

John Burk on 04 Feb 12

great lab idea-split a lab into experimentalists vs theorists.

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http://jersey.uoregon.edu/vlab/elements/Elements.html - 1 views

jersey.uoregon.edu/...Elements.html

physics spectra periodictable emission absorption

shared by anonymous on 14 Sep 11 - Cached

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emission and absorption spectra for each element

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emission and absorption spectra for each element

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How Schlieren Imaging Works | Talking Physics - 1 views

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project_ideas optics index_of_refraction physics

shared by John Burk on 10 Feb 12 - No Cached

John Burk on 10 Feb 12

very cool explanation of schlieren imaging

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Anomalous mass of the neutron « Journal of Nuclear Physics - 1 views

www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com/?p=516&cpage=2#comment-102155

physics energy coldfusion lenr supersymmetry

shared by anonymous on 28 Oct 11 - No Cached

anonymous on 28 Oct 11

This is Rossi's blog...tomorrow's the day, if it's real. If so, hold on to your hats.

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Physics Video Library from Scott Hertting - 1 views

www.twitvid.com/RO2YD

video physics

shared by John Burk on 31 Jan 12 - No Cached

John Burk on 31 Jan 12

Great library of physics videos and demos

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