kinaesthetic activities to help teach waves and optics in senior physics courses louise mason, st...
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Kinaesthetic Activities to help teach Kinaesthetic Activities to help teach Waves and Optics in Senior Physics Waves and Optics in Senior Physics
CoursesCourses
Louise Mason, St Leonard’s College, Louise Mason, St Leonard’s College, VCE Physics Conference, 2012VCE Physics Conference, 2012
Multiple IntelligencesMultiple IntelligencesTraditional:Traditional:• Experimental Activities + Reports• Demonstrations - POE
Non – Traditional:Non – Traditional:• DNA bush dance – mitosis and meiosis• Particle Theory – solids, liquids and gases• Merrin Evergreen – Biology, songs & rhymes
Today’s PresentationToday’s Presentation
1. Demo – water bowl, dropper and food dye
2. Role-plays – longitudinal and transverse waves – pulses and continuous waves
3. Role-plays – 2D Wavefronts (C:\My Docs\Science Classes\vce
unit1-2 Physics St L\Innovative Physics C-2005)
4. Refraction of Wavefronts (Role-plays)(fast medium ~1m steps, slow medium “1 foot in front of next foot” step)
a) 0 degree incidence 1 & 2 b) fast to slow 1 & 2 c) slow to fast 1 & 2
5. Total Internal Reflection of Wavefronts (Roleplays) 1 & 2
continued….continued….6. Snell’s Law derivation using right angle triangles
7. Multiple Wavefront and Ray Representation using paper. .(***Also show refract. With lenses) Use of coloured paper – to demonstrate chromatic dispersion
8. Use of a microwave and either chocolate, cheese or marshmallows to calculate the speed of light using the wave equation.
Calculating the speed of light – Resonance, a microwave oven and a few bars of chocolate
(C:\My Docs\St Leonards\STAVCON 09 Presentation\STAVCON 2009 teaching waves and optics\Applets Physics\ph14e\stwaverefl.htm) (Originally from CSIRO Scientriffic ?)
Choc, microwave, freq, cook 1, cook 2, finding melted spots, measure ½ wavelength
9. Physics in the Australian Curriculum, K-10, senior
Other stuff – time permits
Newton’s Laws
1. Sympathetic resonance 1 and 2 (Andrew Caris)
2. bad rally cnr, hammer, discus
3. seats on castors or skate board – big ryan little liv
4. Astronauts floating weightlessness (yr 7 science – forces, creative essay about life on the International Space Station)
