Teaching ideas - from a physics teacher

For more information about how people learn, I highly recommend two great FREE online books from the National Academies Press:

• How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School
• How Students Learn: History, Mathematics, and Science in the Classroom .

If you are a physics teacher, be sure to get these discipline specific books about how students learn physics:

• Teaching Introductory Physics (Arons)
• 5 Easy Lessons (Knight — who also wrote calc-based and algebra-basedphysics texts)
• Teaching Physics with the Physics Suite (Redish, FREE online)

And just in case you think I’m an armchair critic with nothing to contribute, I want you to know I’ve opened up my classroom to the whole world on myNoschese 180 blog, where I’ve been sharing a picture and a reflection from each school day.

Wisdom Begins with Wonder - and other blogs about science teaching

SCIENCE TEACHING BLOGS

• Adventures with the Lower Level
• Large Q Quality
• Science Education on the Edge
• Science Teacher
• Shifting Phases
• Teaching as a Dynamic Activity
• TEACHING|chemistry
• What It's Like on the Inside
• Wisdom Begins with Wonder