Re: Teaching Relativity to high school students

[Beverly Trina Cannon <tcannon@tenet.edu>]

On Fri, 9 May 1997, Ricardo Hino wrote:

> Has someone already worked on teaching relativity theory to high school
> students. Which kind of approach did you use? What were the results?
 Yes, I have and I use the Mechanical Universe High School Adaptation.  I 
have use the video and support materials for about 8 years now.  I am 
really getting better with the whole experience.  I recommend that video 
and the teacher materials for High School.  My students have a headache 
the day we do the space-time diagrams....but they recover and return for 
more the next day and really do grasp the ideas.

Trina Cannon
Science & Engineering Magnet High School
Townview Mgnet Center
Dallas, TX 
tcannon@tenet.edu