E. Close, H. Close, S. McKagan, and R. Scherr, PERC 2010 Proceedings, 105-108.
In a course organized around the development of diverse representations, no single mode of expression offers a complete picture of participants’ understanding of the nature of…
E. Kahle, R. Scherr, and H. Close, PERC 2010 Proceedings, 185-188.
We document the experience of a single participant in a course for secondary teacher professional development in order to track the changes in her thinking about how light interacts…
J. Radoff, F. Goldberg, D. Hammer, and S. Fargason, PERC 2010 Proceedings, 269-272.
We present snippets of third-graders discussing ideas about energy as part of their considering and comparing different ways to make a toy car start moving. This case study…
R. Scherr, H. Close, S. McKagan, and E. Close, PERC 2010 Proceedings, 293-296.
In what we call “embodied learning activities,” instructors deliberately arrange for human bodies, or parts of the body, to stand in for entities in the description or explanation of…
