Seeing is Believing
In the pictures above, students have been tasked with understanding how reading glasses work as they study optics. Open exploration drives each lesson as students have opportunity to explore how light travels in various ways. Using PhET simulations, students can see the abstract and the microscopic, watching light rays bend & slow down in different mediums. Briana designed Physics4All, Chemistry4All, and Algebra4All labs to pair with PhET simulations for students to learn science in its most authentic form—inquiry.
These NGSS and Common Core aligned labs, featured on right, promote curiosity, academic risking taking, & mathematical reasoning for students, k-12th.
Physics4All labs gives students real world context to connect to concepts. For instance in the “Build a Circuit” lab to the right, 2nd grade students tested which materials were able to light a lightbulb before concluding that metals were conductors.
In each lab, students collect data, analyze relationships between variables, and form equations. In succeeding photos, middle school students created Ohm’s Law (I= V/R) after finding direct linear relationship between voltage (batteries) and current (brightness).
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