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Fortify Your (and Your Kids') Screen Time
with a Dose of Physics
As teachers, students, and their families have navigated online learning this year, science education has taken a bit of a hit. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine reported that only 38% of teachers who responded to a survey said that they had been able to engage their students in hands-on laboratory activities during the spring semester after the pandemic forced many school buildings to close. Distance teaching and learning can be tough, especially when teachers can’t count on having the right materials in students’ homes...
In the News
Magnetism and Bee Flight
Physics Toolbox was used this year to measure how changing magnetic fields influence the flight approach angle of stingless bees in Brazil.
Harvesting Kinetic Energy from Human Motion
Human activity recognition has typically relied on accelerometers, but this author team explores the potential of barometers instead!
Another Take on Biomechanics Human activity recognition has typically relied on accelerometers, but this author team explores the potential of barometers instead!
Pulse-Programmable Magnetic Field Cycling
Physics Toolbox's magnetometer was used to verify B-fields in this biochemistry research.
Congratulations to Paul Jacob (@PauldeAnima)
for his Work on Membrane Distillation!
Physics Toolbox was used by this researcher to prototype a process to measure membrane saturation by observing changes in light transmission. In this Twitter thread, he shares a page of his notebook from a few years ago.
Educational Applications
Applied Aspects of Physical Didactics
An exploration of mobile learning of physics with various applications by a team in Ukraine.
Teacher Education and Smartphones
Proposal to use smartphones in teacher professional development at the 4th International Virtual Conference on Educational Research and Innovation (Spanish language, pp. 81-82).
Using Digital Technologies to Teach Physics
This research article on secondary students in Spain suggests that technology use has even more positive benefits for young women than for young men.
Smartphone Eclipse Activities
This Spanish language guide from Uruguay includes the use of smartphones for engaging in activities during the December 14th partial eclipse, but is applicable to any upcoming eclipses as well.
Physics Colloquia: How to Convert Your Cell Phone
into a Physics Laboratory (Spanish language)
A presentation by Dr. Cecilia Stari and Prof. Martín Monteiro of Uruguay
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