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In this activity, students will observe the reflection and refraction of light, individually and in groups. The aim of the lesson plan is to firstly see what the students already understand about light, its properties and paying special attention to the difference between reflection and refraction as they are the most commonly mixed up. The students will be asked to perform a series of investigations to figure out the differences between refraction and refraction. A discussion will follow in order to more formally define the terms and the differences.

Gives students a glimpse into the world of ‘Renewable energies’, allowing them to investigate how ecological electric power can be produced. 'Renewable energies' will become our most important suppliers of energy in the future. Production, storage and use of electricity from natural energy sources such as water, wind and the sun are graphically illustrated, using various models and numerous experiments. Since the demonstrator could cover more than one didactical unit, a topic (one didactical unit) was selected for the needs of the first phase of application.

In this activity students use a “movie” consisting of still photos of a spring with different masses hanging from it to verify Hooke’s Law and determine the spring’s constant, k. This activity gives students an opportunity to make careful use of a conventional coordinate system where “up” and “toward the right” are positive and “down” and “toward the left” are negative. They then consider the circumstances under which each of the variables, Fy and y, needed to determine k, are positive or negative. Students can practice obtaining data for the ISE LoggerPro/LoggerLite analysis tool.

In this activity students use a “movie” consisting of still photos of a spring with different masses hanging from it to verify Hooke’s Law and determine the spring’s constant, k. This activity gives students an opportunity to make careful use of a conventional coordinate system where “up” and “toward the right” are positive and “down” and “toward the left” are negative. They then consider the circumstances under which each of the variables, Fy and y, needed to determine k, are positive or negative. Students can practice obtaining data for the ISE LoggerPro/LoggerLite analysis tool.

In this activity students use a “movie” consisting of still photos of a spring with different masses hanging from it to verify Hooke’s Law and determine the spring’s constant, k. This activity gives students an opportunity to make careful use of a conventional coordinate system where “up” and “toward the right” are positive and “down” and “toward the left” are negative. They then consider the circumstances under which each of the variables, Fy and y, needed to determine k, are positive or negative. Students can practice obtaining data for the ISE LoggerPro/LoggerLite analysis tool.