Inquiry-based honors physics labs

ABSTRACT

We report on a new set of laboratories for our Freshman Honors Physics Course. The new labs are inquiry-based, and allow students to design, execute and analyze their own experiments. The students usually analyzed their experiments by simulating them, using realistic motion techniques in python or spreadsheets. Students presented their finished analyses to the rest of the class with Microsoft PowerPoint. The labs were quite successful, though we did not do any rigorous assessment.

References

1. Sherwood, Bruce and Chabay, Ruth, 2002. Matter and Interactions, Wiley and Sons.
2. National Research Council. 1995. National Science Education Standards, National Academy Press.
3. National Research Council. 2001. Inquiry and the National Science Education Standards, National Academy Press.

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