Articles Tagged with science teaching

Sunrise, sunset

In-between calculations

In the twilight land of Spherical Astronomy. . .

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The synthesis project

Doomed ideas (I)

We present something that almost certainly won’t happen.

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The good stuff

Tucked away at the end

Sometimes classes never reach the more interesting parts of Physics.

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A changing syllabus

What to learn

“Quantum Mechanics” is not what it used to be.

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Microclimates

Weather and learning

If you look closely, there is enormous diversity.  This can be a problem.

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Burnout

Long-serving workers

How long is too long to do a single task?

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time and tide

Teaching complexity

Almost every subject is complicated if you go deeply enough into it.  Where do you stop teaching?

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Teaching old things

The uses of the obsolete

Something that’s no longer used can still be illuminating.

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The theoretical piston

A useful idea

We ask a chicken-and-egg question about a textbook staple.

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Rewriting the textbooks

When, and why

We take a tired cliché seriously.

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