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The Evolution of the OSP ComPADRE Collection  [ Conference Proceedings ]
  
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M. Belloni, W. Christian, A. Cox, and T. Timberlake
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M. Belloni, W. Christian, A. Cox, and T. Timberlake, Winter Meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers, 17 (2011).
Over the past six years, the Open Source Physics (OSP) project has produced a collection of over 400 interactive computer-based curricular materials for the teaching of advanced…
Modeling What You See with Tracker Workshop  [ Conference Proceedings ]
  
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A. Cox and W. Christian, WCPE 2012 (2012).
Videos of Angry Birds, roller coasters and shark breaches are all opportunities to teach physics. In video analysis, students see physics in action as they collect kinematic data…
Hidden Function Model  [ Computer Program ]
  
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The Hidden Function model evaluates a function f(x) with parameters. It is designed to teach function concepts by allowing a teacher to define a function, hide that function in a…
PhysicsQuest and ComPADRE for Middle School Teaching  [ Conference Proceedings ]
  
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B. Christian and W. Christian, North Carolina Science Teachers Association (2010).
Abstract: A workshop for middle school teachers based on four PhysicsQuest experiments from the American Physical Society. Teachers learn how the 2009 PhysicsQuest kit can be used…
A History of The OSP-CoLoS Collaboration  [ Conference Proceedings ]
  
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W. Christian, M. Belloni, F. Esquembre, F. Hwang, and S. Divjak
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W. Christian, M. Belloni, F. Esquembre, F. Hwang, and S. Divjak, MPTL 16 and HSCI 2011 (2011).
Over the past ten years, Open Source Physics (OSP) and Conceptual Learning of Science (CoLoS) members have worked together to produce the world’s largest collection of interactive…
Simulating What You See  [ Conference Proceedings ]
  
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D. Brown and W. Christian, MPTL 16 and HSCI 2011 (2011).
This conference proceedings paper describes how the Tracker video analysis and modeling program enables students to create particle model simulations based on Newton's laws and to…
  
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M. Belloni, W. Christian, and F. Esquembre, MPTL 16 and HSCI 2011 (2011).
For the past thirty years, U.S. high school science instruction has evolved toward common teaching standards. Despite this trend, consistent, well organized multimedia-based…
Aligning Simulations with US Teaching Standards  [ Conference Proceedings ]
  
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M. Belloni, W. Christian, and F. Esquembre, MPTL 16 and HSCI 2011 (2011).
This conference proceedings paper shows how EJS simulations from the OSP Collection can be used to support teaching standards in the US. We describe how ComPADRE tools are used to…
  
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This paper outlines the pedagogical and technical features of the Open Source Physics (OSP) project and how we use OSP-based tools and resources to introduce modeling into the…
  
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M. Belloni, Fall Meeting of the North Carolina Section of the American Association of Physics Teachers, 18 (2011).
This talk describes how we use the Tracker video analysis and modeling program to analyze still images. We have used a group of still 30-second images taken 9 ½ minutes apart (for 10…
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