Matter Behaves Like Waves. Some Processes are Irreversible. Computer with projection equipment. Calculus-based introductory physics. One-hour guided discovery sessions are meant to replace recitations in large lecture classes.
Units focus on building students' mathematical insights and skills in a physics context.
Computer with MBL per 3 or 4 students. Calculus-based introductory physics. The class makes learners active participants in lectures by engaging them in qualitative reasoning through the desktop experiments and by discussion of the results with neighboring students in class. The class uses a small kit of materials that the students buy and can thus use at home to repeat experiments and work through at their own pace. The students also use a textbook that is written in the style of a workbook that thoroughly integrates theory and experiment.