Re: Comic books as classroom resource

["Dr. Paul O. Johnson" <pjohnson@SCIENCEPLACE.ORG>]

Do you remember the Peanuts strip several; years ago in which Snoopy is
lying prone on his roof looking down into his dish. He says "Objects under
water always look deeper." This confused the hell out of my students when I
tried to correct it.

poj

----- Original Message -----
From: "Hugh Haskell" <hhaskell@MINDSPRING.COM>
To: <PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu>
Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 1:54 PM
Subject: Re: Comic books as classroom resource


> Comic books and comic strips have provided lots of fodder for physics
> teachers over the years. Calvin and Hobbes has lots of
> physics-related stuff, some of it quite droll. So does Foxtrot. I am
> particularly partial to the Roadrunner cartoons. Wile E. Coyote has
> so many non-physical things happen to him that you can confront
> almost every student misconception in any one episode. And all the
> super-heroes do so many things that lend themselves to interesting
> calculations, that I'm not surprised that someone has finally decided
> to build a whole course around comics.
>
> Hugh
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