The first post I was assigned to was a post called "Why You Should Wait to Teach Projectile Motion, Part 1 The Problem". This post is located on John Burke's Quantum Progress Blog:This post explained why teachers when teaching Physics should wait to teach projectile motion. It is part 1 of 3 and this explains the problems. One of the problems is units and boring crap. Mr. Burke states that physics is a lot of figuring and equations and this is where most people get caught up in and can never get past.
I left him a comment saying that I agree with him, because I had to take physics and I was so caught up in the figuring that I could not get the real aspect of physics. And I felt like I was always playing catch up.
The next post that I was assigned was on the same blog, and it is titled "Lessons on Scale". There was a video on this post asking the question how far away is the moon from the earth. It used a basketball as the earth and a tennis ball as the moon. Eventually it showed to scale how far the moon was away from the earth. The object is to use visual things to show the relationship. And Mr. Burke explains that this was a good teaching tool and he has to do more of these to get his kids thinking.
I left a comment saying that I really liked the video and that it was a great teaching tool. And as a future teacher myself I have to use some of these techniques also to get my students thinking.http://quantumprogress.wordpress.com/
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