Recent content by PaulHSteacher

Thank you much. I was called into teaching because my friends saw me having too much fun in my lab. I was told that AP physics consisted of all gifted students and later learned otherwise. I also learned that their maturity level was not near that of college. I am making a list of first week...

Student learning and skill development mostly requires student participation as everyone reading this likely knows. I had a parent tell me that they hired a physics tutor for their child and the child was still doing poorly. I told the parent that if the student was not getting an "A" in a class...

I like that. I will give it a try.

Thank you much. I tried a board and dry erasure for friction. Both kinetic and static frictions I observed (erasure/board) are the same here in NC and you get a smooth progressive slide making it great to find the sliding angle. However, my students have interests in gaming and cell phones and...

I teach high school physics and I am looking for simple labs for my students. The school is moving to a new location in a year or two and our equipment is dismal. I want labs that are simple. Earlier this week, I had the students perform the reaction time test by having one student drop a meter...