Lesson Templates: For Students, For Fun
Lesson Templates:
For Students, For Fun
New Lesson Templates
At the request of our users, we have begun to develop lesson templates to provide more specific support on how Physics Toolbox apps can be used to teach various physics concepts. These lessons can be simply used as guides for teachers, or even as worksheets for direct use by students.
Currently, we have templates for teaching the following:
- Measurement: Height (with Trigonometry)
- Force: Measuring Height with Air Pressure
- Circular Motion: Acceleration and Tangential Velocity
- Light: Color by Addition
- Sound: Beats
- Electromagnetism: Magnetic Field Disturbances
As we continue to develop more resources, we look forward to your feedback! Please reach out to us at support@vieyrasoftware.net.
Mobile Accerometer Java Simulations + Resources
Are you curious to know more about how your mobile device measure acceleration? Check out these research-based modeling and simulation resources from Wolfgang Christian, Colleen Countryman, and Francisco Esquembre, hosted by the American Association of Physics Teachers.
More than Mobile
New Blog Posting
While most of the lessons templates presented on our website are inquiry labs that are only slightly modified from what could be done anyone with any kind of probeware, there are a few that actually really couldn't have been easily done at all before using smartphones...
Kitchen Physics
Dunk your (waterproofed) phone!
Check out our "Kitchen Physics" article from the February issue of The Physics Teacher, in which we (along with Stefano Macchia) present a series of activities using a smartphone, waterproof phone case, and tub or sink filled with water to:
- derive Stevin's law relating fluid depth and pressure and
- measure the densities of various fluids (tap water, salt water, sunflower oil, and ethyl alcohol).
Additionally, we use a thermometer and hygrometer-enabled smartphone and a freezer to:
- derive Gay-Lussac's law relating pressure and temperature in a constant-volume container, and
- determine absolute zero, and
- investigate isobaric coooling and isothermal decompression.
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