Joel Rauber, Ph.D
Professor and Acting Head of Physics
Department of Physics
South Dakota State University
Brookings, SD 57007
Joel.Rauber@sdstate.edu
605.688.5428
| -----Original Message-----
| From: phys-l-bounces@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu
| [mailto:phys-l-bounces@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu] On Behalf
| Of Jeffrey Schnick
| Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 12:31 PM
| To: Forum for Physics Educators
| Subject: Re: [Phys-l] Physics First Revisited
|
| Perhaps what is needed is for someone to develop a physics
| reading program for grades 2 through 6. It could amount to
| something as simple as a set of exercises in which pupils are
| asked in writing to make a prediction and then try it and see
| what happens. It needs to be called a reading program (a)
| because it is more likely to be accepted if it is advertised
| as being a reading program and (b) because it is in the
| reading part of their classes that students are placed in
| groups of peers that are at about the same academic level
| thus making it more likely to be successful since each group
| could be working on the part of the program appropriate that
| group's current intellectual stage of development. It needs
| to be good so that when a small group of schools try it,
| scores on reading and math tests go through the roof.
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