Making Physics Fun : Key Concepts, Classroom Activities, and Everyday Examples, Grades K-8

by Robert Prigo

• ISBN13: 9781412926621
• ISBN10: 1412926629
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-04-18
• Publisher: Corwin Pr

Summary

Packed with loads of ready to use learning experiences, this resource helps teachers connect thinking with hands-on physics activities. Showing teachers how to teach with safe, easy-to-access materials, this book also provides conceptual summaries to support the teacher's own understanding of the topic. Suitable for science teacher in primary schools, the activities can be used with the whole-class or with smaller groups, and the book is also useful as a professional development resource.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
About the Author	p. xv
Motion and Force	p. 1
Inertia and Newton's First Law of Motion	p. 2
Concepts	p. 2
Activities	p. 4
Everyday Examples	p. 9
Fundamental Forces and Newton's Third Law of Motion	p. 13
Concepts	p. 13
Activities	p. 14
Everyday Examples	p. 18
Net Force, Acceleration, and Newton's Second Law of Motion	p. 20
Concepts	p. 20
Activities	p. 22
Everyday Examples	p. 25
Motion Circus	p. 28
Sample Investigable Questions	p. 30
Fluids and Buoyancy	p. 33
Gases and Liquids as Fluids	p. 34
Pressure in a Gas and Atmospheric Pressure	p. 34
Concepts	p. 34
Activities	p. 37
Everyday Examples	p. 42
Liquid Pressure	p. 46
Concepts	p. 46
Activities	p. 48
Everyday Examples	p. 50
Archimedes' Principle: Sinking and Floating	p. 52
Concepts	p. 52
Activities	p. 54
Everyday Examples	p. 59
Fluids in Motion: Bernoulli's Principle	p. 62
Concepts	p. 62
Activities	p. 64
Everyday Examples	p. 67
Fluids and Buoyancy Circus	p. 70
A Bernoulli Circus	p. 72
Sample Investigable Questions	p. 73
Waves and Sound	p. 75
Waves and Wave Motion	p. 76
Concepts	p. 76
Types of Waves and Wave Speed	p. 76
Periodic Waves: Wavelength, Frequency, and Amplitude	p. 80
Wave Reflection and Transmission	p. 82
Superposition Principle	p. 83
Activities	p. 84
Everyday Examples	p. 89
Sound Waves	p. 91
Concepts	p. 91
Activities	p. 93
Everyday Examples	p. 100
Waves and Sound Circus	p. 104
Sample Investigable Questions	p. 109
Light and Electromagnetic Waves	p. 111
Waves and/or Particles	p. 112
Sources of Light	p. 114
Concepts	p. 114
Activities	p. 115
Everyday Examples	p. 116
Light and Matter	p. 118
Concepts	p. 118
Activities	p. 119
Everyday Examples	p. 120
Light Travels in Straight Lines	p. 120
Concepts	p. 120
Activities	p. 120
Everyday Examples	p. 125
Reflection	p. 127
Concepts	p. 127
Activities	p. 135
Everyday Examples	p. 140
Refraction	p. 144
Concepts	p. 144
Activities	p. 153
Everyday Examples	p. 157
Total Internal Reflection	p. 160
Concepts	p. 160
Activities	p. 162
Everyday Examples	p. 165
Dispersion and Color	p. 166
Concepts	p. 166
Activities	p. 168
Everyday Examples	p. 170
Diffraction and Interference	p. 171
Concepts	p. 171
Activities	p. 174
Everyday Examples	p. 176
Light Circus	p. 176
Sample Investigable Questions	p. 179
Electricity and Magnetism	p. 181
Electric Charge and the Electric Force and Field	p. 182
Concepts	p. 182
Activities	p. 186
Everyday Examples	p. 190
Electric Current and the Magnetic Force and Field	p. 192
Concepts	p. 192
Activities	p. 197
Magnets Interacting With Magnets and Magnetic Materials	p. 197
Magnets Interacting With Current-Carrying Wires	p. 200
Current Carrying Wires Interacting With Current-Carrying Wires	p. 202
Everyday Examples	p. 202
Magnets Interacting With Magnets and Magnetic Materials	p. 202
Magnets Interacting With Current-Carrying Wires	p. 203
Electromagnetic Induction	p. 204
Concepts	p. 204
Activities	p. 205
Everyday Examples	p. 207
Electric and Magnetic Circus	p. 208
Sample Investigable Questions	p. 212
References and Resources	p. 215
Index	p. 217
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