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In the below I am assuming the first day is for a High School course inJoseph J. Bellina, Jr. Ph.D.
Physics, standard US model i.e. no previous class in Physics.
I did the Bowling ball demo in the class, but later during my energy
unit.
THE FIRST DAY was to intrigue my incoming students.
Every Student all summer has said.....Your taking PHYSICS! That will
be
hard.....or you must be smart....or I hated Physics....
so the students coming in are frightened ....but few are intrigued...
I used more than the two mentioned, in fact I used one from each
unit.......
My philosophy then was and still is
You can lead a horse to water, and you CAN make him drink IF you feed
him
enough SALT.
Again this was high school and I plan to do the same in my CC college
course.
Explaining is not for the first day of class.
Joe-After 12 years of today's ed system, going directly to a student
centered approach will not help the student accept the responsibility
for
their learning....Growth is a gradual thing with spurts along the
way....In
fact after the mid point of the school year the students were doing
all the
work, I 'lectured' only when asked.
Sheron