Re: Teaching Relativity to high school students

["B. Esser" <besser@marian.creighton.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?

I have done this with a group of students outside of our normal
curriculum.  In addition to the Mechanical Universe videos and books
others have referenced, we used a computer simulation called Rellab.  The
program allows a person to establish relativistic events and watch them
unfold from various reference frames. 
It can also be used for galilean simulations and I have found it to be a
useful supplement to the curriculum.

Bruce Esser
Physics Teacher                    Something witty
Marian High School                     Should go here
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