Outreach
Programs
Resources for Teachers
Meetings:
Maine High school physics teachers meetings
Workshops:
Quantum physics
Wave physics
Modeling method
Center for Science and Mathematics Education Reseaerch
more information here
Modeling Workshop Summer 1999
The Modeling Workshop Project has been under development for more than a decade. Its approach to curriculum design and teaching methodology has been guided by a Modeling Theory of Physics Instruction, the focus of an educational research program directed by Prof. David Hestenes. The theory has been implemented in a practical Modeling Method for high school physics, developed and tested in the doctoral dissertation (1987) of Malcolm Wells, a high school teacher who brought more than two decades of classroom experience to the task. Based on the impressive results of this research, Hestenes and Wells were awarded an NSF grant to further improve the modeling method and develop workshops to train other teachers to use it. Six week pilot workshops during the summers of 1990-91 were found to exert a powerful influence on the teaching behavior of participants. This experience provides the foundation for the current nationwide program of Leadership Workshops.
Project Staff at the University of Maine
Workshop Schedule for Summer 1999
Links For HS School Physics Teachers
Current Participants for Summer 1999 must:
- complete the FCI survey: Go to the Survey
NOTE: THis page is identical to the Modeling Workshop Homepage maintained at Arizona State University. If any of the links do not work, link directly to the original web page at ASU.- Project Staff at Arizona State University (Development and National Dissemniation of the Modeling Method)
- Papers and talks describing Modeling Instruction
- Synopsis of the Modeling Method
- Detailed description of the Modeling Cycle
- A Modeling Method
for high school physics instruction
Read the article (AJP 7/95) describing the use of the Modeling Method in Malcolm Wells' classroom. - Click here to find Powerpoint presentations on Modeling suitable for various audiences.
- Modeling Methodology
for Physics Teachers
David Hestenes' most recent paper on modeling - Articles contributed by Modeling teachers
- Recommendations for the physics classroom
Computer hardware/software recommendations (4/99)
Equipment to start up a Modeling Physics classroom
Equipment list for the mechanics portion of the physics course.
Link to Bob Morse's recommendations for renovating a physics classroom/lab
Download Steve Skinner's recommendations for renovating the physics classroom.
- Curriculum materials
- Here you can find sample materials that will give you some sense of what Modeling Instruction is about. Workshop participants have access to the most current materials and resources.
- Project Staff at Arizona State University (Development and National Dissemniation of the Modeling Method)
- Research & Evaluation
- Descriptions of the Force Concept Inventory (FCI), Mechanics Baseline Test (MBT), and Views About Science Survey (VASS) as well as preliminary results of the evaluation of the students of Phase I teachers.
