Session:
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Labs/Apparatus (General)
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Paper Type:
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Contributed
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Title:
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Shoe Box Labs: Designing Labs for Local High School Students
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Meeting:
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2017 Winter Meeting: Atlanta, Georgia |
Location:
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Date:
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Time:
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7:50PM
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Author:
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Brent G. Lunsford,, Mercer University,
4787143022, brent.grainger.lunsford@live.mercer.edu
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Co-Author(s):
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Andrew Wilzman,, Jeff Pullen,, Chamaree de Silva,
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Abstract:
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In collaboration with teachers from a local high school, we designed a set of physics and mathematics activities for students in the International Baccalaureate (IB) program. The annual science budget for the entire school is about $600, so the students do not have an opportunity to conduct proper labs as part of the curriculum that could prepare them for college-level material. Funded by the “Research that Reaches Out” Quality Enhancement Plan at Mercer University, we designed activities for 2D-kinematics, vectors, standing waves, circuits, and probability and statistics. This included a home-built wooden catapult to demonstrate projectile motion at three different initial angles.
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Footnotes:
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None
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Presentation:
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Brent Lunsford AAPT Presentation.pptm
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