Wednesday, December 5, 2007

Using America's funniest videos for physics

In the Physics Teacher magazine this month under Websights was a description of using AFV videos to illistrate physics principles. What fun! Here's the link to the webpage for the videos
http://abc.go.com/primetime/afv/index?pn=index
They also talked about some videos in YouTube that were made in Japan. A great on on vector addition can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPHoUbCNPX8

Tuesday, December 4, 2007

MIT OpenCourseware

I've been looking at a website from MIT called "Highlights for High School" located at http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/hs/home/home/index.htm

There are some wonderful ideas for all areas of the curriculum even though the major focus are the STEM courses. I've shared some of the ideas I found here with the HP participants: one on photojournalism with Shelton and one of literature with Kelly and Becky. Hopefully it will generate some ideas that can be developed into projects.