The Seconds – More on this case

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Full Length Video

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See PDF transcript for full length video.

Publications

Salter, I.Y. and Atkins, L.J. Student-generated scientific inquiry for elementary education undergraduates: Course development, outcomes and implications. Journal of Science Teacher Education. 24(1)157 – 177; 2013.

Atkins, L.J. and Salter, I.Y. Engaging future teachers in having wonderful ideas. Chapter in Effective Practices in Preservice Physics Teacher Education, edited by E. Brewe and C. Sandifer. Anticipated publication in 2015, APS.

Leslie Atkins Elliott, Kim Jaxon, and Irene Salter. Composing Science: A Facilitator’s Guide to Writing in the Science Classroom. Available from The National Writing Project, TCPress and Amazon.

What happened next?

Over the next days of class, we continued to add precision to diagrams and then pursue questions that this inquiry had raised.

The questions were:

• Do thirds and fourths actually matter?
  When light bounces off a surface, how does it behave? (Koosh, special angle or combination?)
• Why are there crisp edges when light (without mirror) [shines] through tube?
• What’s the difference between mirror and other surfaces (white v. black paper for instance)?