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Re: [Phys-L] [PTSOS] jeopardy! and/or jigsaw puzzles [1 Attachment] Was: Re: Conceptual Physics Course

On 2012, May 11, , at 18:54, John Denker wrote:

As an example: In Hewitt's _Conceptual Physics_ section 38.4 it
emphasizes that «Light behaves like waves when it travels in empty
space, and like particles when it interacts with solid matter.»
A few sentences later we find «CONCEPT CHECK: What causes light
to behave like a wave? Like a particle?»

Sorry, that's not conceptual physics. It's not conceptual, and
it's not physics. All it is doing is asking for rote regurgitation
of what was said earlier on the page. This is incompatible with
any pretense of critical thinking.

Here's what some teachers are doing in NorCal:
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Does anybody know of websites that help generate Jeopardy! type games or jigsaw puzzles for review activities?
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replies:

http://www.elainefitzgerald.com/jeopardy.htm

Select and Download:

"Jeopardy Powerpoint Template"

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1 of 1 File(s)
jeopardy.ppt


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here's the blank jeopardy I use:

http://pleasanton.k12.ca.us/avhsweb/barnettdreyfuss/PD/BlankJeopardy.ppt


Normally I post to that list ed. comments from phys-l, e.g. John's above, and my own. I'm already hated by many of the members of that list -- so not this time, and hence my often attending SoCal AAPT and tech. meetings, instead of and in addition to the NorCal ones.

bc sometimes wishes he still lived in Santa Barbara.

aside to JD and B. Mumford:

My other example of a co-incidence within a day or two. (Poisson intervals)

and p.s.

perhaps such Jeopardy review may be suitable up to the sixth grade, as learning the lingo is necessary to continue in any subject. after that it's thinking, no?

another regurgitation is Feynman's bing, bing, bing => differentiation and integration of simple functions -- I suspect engineers can do the same for Laplace transforms. I "heard" a famous scientist (Gauss?) memorized a log table, so multiplication was bing, bing, bing.