Collaborative Research: Raising Physics to the Surface

合作研究：将物理学提升到表面

• 批准号: 1611946
• 负责人: Aaron Wangberg
• 金额: $ 8.76万
• 依托单位: Winona State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-03-01 至 2022-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1611946&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Raising; Physics; Surface

The significance of the Raising Physics to the Surface project is that it will yield a set of hands-on, discovery-style, discussion-based classroom activities where students develop meaningful understandings of physical systems that depend on multiple variables. Most physical systems depend on more than one variable. However, when solving problems about these systems, many students merely apply pointless algebraic manipulations to memorized formulas. Students gain meaningful understandings by thinking conceptually and geometrically about the relationships between variables. During the Raising Physics activities, students will develop these understandings by working with custom, dry-erasable, 3D surfaces, corresponding contour and gradient maps, and computer-based models. The activities will span physics topics in classical mechanics, electricity and magnetism, and thermal physics. Instructors from various colleges and universities will learn how to use the Raising Physics materials effectively during a summer workshop then deploy the materials in their physics courses.The goals of the Raising Physics project are to (a) produce and disseminate curricular materials, (b) identify the best practices for using these materials in various classroom settings, and (c) study the impact of these materials on student learning and on instructors' attitudes, beliefs, and teaching practices. The curricular materials will be informed by results from research in physics and math education that demonstrate the importance of (1) using tangible models, maps and tools to explore geometric relationships, (2) representing physical quantities in multiple ways, and (3) discussing ideas in small groups for meaningful and flexible learning. The research components of this project will investigate the effectiveness of the activities and will advance understanding of how students reason about multivariable functions in physics using multiple representations.

提高物理学对表面项目的重要性是，它将产生一组动手，基于讨论的课堂活动，学生对依赖多个变量的物理系统产生有意义的理解。大多数物理系统都取决于多个变量。但是，在解决这些系统问题时，许多学生只是将毫无意义的代数操纵应用于记忆的公式。学生通过从概念和几何思考变量之间的关系来获得有意义的理解。在培养物理活动中，学生将通过使用定制，干燥，3D表面，相应的轮廓和梯度图以及基于计算机的模型来发展这些理解。这些活动将涵盖经典力学，电力和磁性以及热物理学的物理主题。来自各种大学的讲师将学习如何在夏季研讨会上有效地使用培养物理材料，然后将这些材料部署在其物理课程中。提高物理项目的目标是（a）生产和传播课程材料，（b）确定在各种课堂设置中使用这些材料和教学材料的教师学习和在教师学习中使用这些材料的最佳实践，并研究了学生的学习，并在教学材料中进行了教学和对等方面的学习。课程材料将通过物理和数学教育研究的结果来告知（1）使用切实的模型，地图和工具探索几何关系的重要性，（2）以多种方式代表物理数量，以及（3）在小组中讨论有意义且灵活的学习的小组中的思想。该项目的研究组成部分将调查活动的有效性，并将促进对学生如何使用多种表示形式推理物理学多变量功能的理解。