The Teaching Times - July, 2000. We discovered in teaching the course for the first time that we needed to find more effective ways to convey to the students the basic principles of the sciences.
Words can go only so far.
We concluded that some simple hands-on experiments would make the concepts we re trying to teach so much clearer, Koehler explained. David Pratt, Peter Koehler, and J. Patrick Card demonstrate a learning resource. We will use the grant to create a resource room with simple apparatus that the students can use to explore at their own pace the basic principles through hands-on activities, he added. The Resource Center will also contain relevant books and reference materials as well as a collection of models. Koehler s research interests are in experimental high energy physics.