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Title Concept questions for Physics using PhET (Inquiry Based)
Description Written for legacy sims, not the html5 ones. These are the clicker questions that I use in my PhET activities. I update this activity as I add questions. This year, I put them in the order that I use them and included a scope and sequence for my course. I also linked the slides to the activities.
Subject Physics
Level High School, Undergrad - Intro
Type Concept Questions
Answers Included No
Language English
Keywords concept, phet activity, physics
Simulation(s) Balloons and Static Electricity, Charges and Fields, Circuit Construction Kit (AC+DC), Circuit Construction Kit (DC Only), Density, Electric Field Hockey, Energy Skate Park, Faraday's Electromagnetic Lab, Forces in 1 Dimension, Forces and Motion, Fourier: Making Waves, Gas Properties, Geometric Optics, Gravity and Orbits, Ladybug Motion 2D, Masses & Springs, Maze Game, The Moving Man, Pendulum Lab, Projectile Motion, Ramp: Forces and Motion, Resonance, Ladybug Revolution, Sound, States of Matter, The Ramp, Vector Addition, Wave Interference, Wave on a String (HTML5), Wave on a String

Author(s) Trish Loeblein
Contact Email patricia.loeblein@colorado.edu
School / Organization PhET
Date submitted 8/4/08
Date updated 5/27/15

Comments

Can students see the math formulas underlying the simulations? Where? Thank you, HM Herman Mann   5/26/11

We use open source platforms, so the underlying math can be found in the code. Follow the links through the FAQ page: http://phet.colorado.edu/en/faqs Sometimes, models are used to enable the science to show basic ideas and yet run on personal computers. If you look at the Teachers Guide which is available on individual sim pages (not all sims have teacher guides yet), you will find information about the model. Feel free to email phethelp@colorado.edu for more information about specific sims if you like. Trish   5/28/11

thanks,All the questions in the power point presentation were useful as a revision tool. Chetna Patel Chetna Patel   9/7/11

Does clicker mean qwizdom or some other type of clicker? Russ Sivey   7/12/12

Clicker is just an expression for "student response systems", there are many types including ones that use personal internet devices and cell phones. For information from Colorado University Boulder about using clickers - check out http://STEMclickers.colorado.edu Trish   7/14/12

kriekj@unisa.ac.za: I think it is very useful in the classroom. Come from SA and are using it in the professional development of teachers. Thank you so much Trish   7/21/12

It is simply fantastic! with my best complimnets Guido Chiantoni Guido   3/21/16

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