Activity-Based Tutorials

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Understanding How Students Learn | Teacher's Guide

M.C. Wittmann, R.N. Steinberg, E.F. Redish and the University of Maryland Physics Education Research Group

Volume 1: Introductory Physics

Overview
Classroom Materials
Software
Videos

Volume 1: Software

The Activity-Based Tutorials often use simulations and software to help students visualize difficult to measure concepts or gather and quickly analyze other data. The software is either commercially available, downloadable from the web.

For suggestions on how to install the software on classroom workstations, click here.

 

MBL materials

Measurement probes have been developed to help gather and analyze data quickly. These probes (and the related software) are commercially available from Vernier Software and Pasco Software. For Activity-Based Tutorials Volume 1: Introductory Physics, you may require all or some of the following:

  • force probes
  • motion sensors
  • temperature sensors
  • the related software from either Vernier or Pasco

MUPPET

We have used a variety of additional programs in tutorial and in the classroom. For example, the M.U.P.P.E.T utilities are a set of MS-DOS programs originally developed at the University of Maryland. The full package contains programs for all levels of physics. For Activity-Based Tutorials Volume 1: Introductory Physics, you may require all or some of the following:

  • Air Resistance
  • Kinetic Model of Gasses

For more information on installing and using the MUPPET Utilities, click here.

 

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We are grateful to the National Science Foundation (grants DUE 9652877 and DUE 9455561) and the Fund for the Improvement of Post Secondary Education (FIPSE grants 116B70186 and 116B000300) for partial funding support. Additional support has been provided by The University of Maryland, The University of Maine, and the City College of New York.