Re: [Phys-L] Worksheet, Physics, Inquiry

[Jeffrey C Bigler <jcb@mit.edu>]

When you teach inquiry-based experimentation, you're teaching your students how to design experiments.  This is not something that can be taught in a single worksheet.  I teach my (high school) physics students experimental design starting from the beginning of the school year.  Here is a link to the section of my class notes that shows how I first present it:

https://www.mrbigler.com/Physics-1/Notes/39_Design_Perform_Expts.pdf

I scaffold the first couple of experiments pretty heavily, and then gradually both add complexity and remove scaffolding as my students get the hang of how the process works.  

The lab report format that I use with them follows the same process.  Among other things, I have my students write separate sections for experimental design and procedure.

Jeff Bigler (he/him/his)
Physics Teacher, NBCT
Lynn English High School; Lynn, MA

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> I would recommend the work of Eugenia Etkina and Gorazd Planinsic. They have
> an approach called Investigative Science Learning Environments (ISLE).
> They have published a book ‘College Physics’ and have a very active facebook
> group ‘Exploring and Applying Physics’.
> Here is a talk by Prof Planinsic
> https://youtu.be/2TaaIFZGpyU
>
> I had also read about MUSE initiative- More Understanding through Simple
> Experiments and the work of Prof Laurence Viennot.
> --
> Regards,
> Ashutosh Bhakuni
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