[Physltest] [Phys-L] Re: "Effective" teaching methods

[Hugh Logan <hloganPHY@CFL.RR.COM>]

Frohne, Vickie wrote:

> I second what Joe says, in that inquiry methods are very effective at getting students to stop taking everything they have been told for granted, and to start believing what's in front of their eyes. And to respond to his most recent post of thirty seconds ago about K-12 curricula, there are some excellent research-based materials for K-8, but most that I've seen only cover single topics (I'm thinking about the excellent FOSS kits, for example) and are not integrated, research-based year-long science curricula satisfying all state standards & etc. If anyone knows differently, please clue me in.
Have you looked into SCIS3+ for K-6 <http://www.delta-education.com/>?
I don't know how closely this follows the original SCIS  headed by
Robert Karplus, whom I remember from the AAPT Workshop based on Piaget,
"Physics and the Development of Reasoning." I believe SCIS was among the
first, if not the very first, curricula to use learning cycles. I have
seen advertisements for a CD disk, "Enhanced Science Helper"
<http://learningteam.org/htmls/sciencehelp.html >, which contains the
original SCIS lessons as well as those from other curriculum projects of
that era. The disk appears to have been put together largely at the
University of Florida.

Hugh Logan
Retired physics teacher
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