Teacher's Lounge |
In case you're wondering where you are, the previous page with the calculator-like gadget on it is the home page for my Physics class. It provides a general physics course to schools in several states. The course is produced by Kentucky Educational Television which provides the course to Kentucky and out-of-state schools.
Should you be interested in further information about the course, you can contact me at 1-800-333-9764 or by email at cduncan@ket.org.
The purpose of the "Physics Teacher's Lounge" is simply to share ideas and keep re-invention of the wheel to a minimum. I've assembled a list of links to other web sites that I've found useful.
If you know of other useful sites, or if you have materials of your own that you'd like to give away, you can help out with the cause by e-mailing them to me. I'll add them to the list. If you go back to my physics front page you'll see a button called "Notes to Teacher." It puts you straight into an e-mail document already addressed to me.
I hope you enjoy the page.
The University of Washington group where Tutorials originated.
Physics Education Resources at the University of Washington
"Context-rich Problems" and physics education research efforts at the University of Minnesota.
For information especially on microcomputer based laboratory, equipment and video use in active learning try the people at Tufts, or Dickinson
The KET Distance Learning Physics Home Page is used by schools taking the satellite Physics course. It also has information of interest to Physics Teachers.
The Kentucky Association of Physics Teachers (KAPT) homepage.
The American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) homepage.
The Particle Adventure is a very nice site that teaches about particle Physics. It's very thorough and let's you choose your route through the topic.
U.S. Fusion Energy Sciences Program "Just give us another 20 years & we'll have this thing figured out."
AIP Physics Careers Bulletin Board
Textbook Misconceptions Don't panic. The download time is less than you'd expect.
Build a Rainbow lets you send colors of your choice at various angles through water droplets.
Physical Science Resources on the Web. This is a list of Physics links from the AIP.
Periodic Table of the Elements This is one of several interactive Periodic Table sites. Some of them are very thorough.
N.C. State University Physics Demonstrations At N.C. State you order up demonstrations via this web site. I wonder if they deliver.
Vector Cross Product - JAVA Interactive Tutorial One of an increasing number of excellent Java applications for Physics.
University of Wisconsin Physics Demonstrations Home Page Diagrams, images, movies, etc., to help you use demonstrations.
George Goble's Home Page This is a dangerous man.
The Franklin Museum provides a great on-line museum. Ocean Planet Homepage
The Popular Science (magazine) Home Page
New Scientist Planet Science - News, jobs and Web-only features from the world's leading science weekly magazine
Dr. Internet Among other things, this site has Science Fair suggestions.
Science Hobbyist Lots of links.
Cool Science sites More links
The T.W.I.N.K.I.E.S. Project Goofy, but fun.
BJ Pinchbeck's Homework Helper This guy has put together a huge collection of links to sites that provide various types of information.
Dr. Internet Finds Other Experiments
Web elements is a very nice gadget from the folks at the University of Sheffield that provides instant access to facts about the elements. Just click on the element in the table. Nifty.
North American
Skies
This one has a nice LINKS feature that will take you to lots of astronomy
sites.
Here's a good source of information about the sun's planets.
It includes a bit of multimedia.
NASA Spacelink - An Aeronautics & Space Resource for Educators
Welcome to the Pluto Home Page
Space Shuttle Launch Schedules Past & Future
For all of you X-files fans that were disappointed to find that the chupacabra turned out to be just a bad case of athlete's foot, here's an actual photo. If you have RealAudio you'll even get to hear the cry of this banshee. Just click on the image.
And you know it's real 'cause you saw it on the Internet!
Sweet dreams!
If we're going to ask students to write, we might as well give them a hand. Here's Strunk's Elements of Style.
(I don't want to get commercial here, but there are some companies that are very helpful in providing the materials for our craft. Here are a few. More to follow.)
Here's the site for Arbor Scientific. I've found them to be very helpful.
And for Vernier Software, here's the link.
And here's Pasco's site.
And here's the Interactive Physics site.