Shusaku Horibe and Bret Underwood 2009 Phys. Educ. 44 633 doi:10.1088/0031-9120/44/6/011
Shusaku Horibe1,2 and Bret Underwood1,3
Show affiliationsClassroom activities that include the process of model building, in which students build simplified physical representations of a system, have the potential to help students make meaningful connections between physics and the real world. We describe a lesson designed with this intent for an introductory college classroom that engages students in the building of models, and illustrate the implementation of this lesson by examining student work.
Issue 6 (November 2009)
Received 17 July 2009
Shusaku Horibe and Bret Underwood 2009 Phys. Educ. 44 633
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