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Earth science contexts for teaching physics.
Part 2: Contexts relating to the teaching of Energy, Earth and Beyond and Radioactivity

Chris King and Peter Kennett

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The physics taught to 11-16 year-old pupils can often be set in Earth contexts in ways that highlight the key role that physics plays in many Earth processes and their effects. This is demonstrated and explained in the context of familiar physics content areas, namely: energy resources and transfer; light and sound; waves; Earth and beyond; and radioactivity. Some of the practical illustrations of these processes that can be used in the laboratory are also described.


PACS

01.40.G- Curricula and evaluation

01.50.Pa Laboratory experiments and apparatus

01.55.+b General physics

Subjects

Education and communication

Dates

Issue 6 (November 2002)

Received 6 September 2002



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