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By being open with students and finding engaging ways to introduce content, new teachers can create classrooms they are ...
Bio: Laurie McNeil is the Bernard Gray Distinguished Professor Emerita in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, having retired in July 2025 after ...
If students from lower socioeconomic and minority ethnic backgrounds are to see their place in the physics classroom, it is vital for us to value and recognize non-traditional sources of prior physics ...
Some progress has been made in encouraging girls to study A-level physics, but not enough, says report.
The purpose of the study was to determine the patterns of interdependency among classroom interaction patterns, teacher and student variables and students' learning outcomes in physics, comprising ...
Jessieville High School teacher Liz Schiefer recently took her passion for science education to a national stage, presenting ...
Shawn Young turned physics class into a role-playing game, and now he's made the game available to teachers everywhere.
More than 700,000 GCSE physics students could be without a specialist teacher, a report has warned. The Institute of Physics (IOP) has called for urgent action to tackle the shortage in physics ...
Bringing extraterrestrials into the physics classroomFAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — A University of Arkansas professor wants physicists to bring extraterrestrial life into the classroom as a tool so they ...
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At Hersheypark, an annual tradition known as Physics Day brought together more than 1,000 students from Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Maryland in 1993.The students used the park as a hands-on ...
For more than a decade, Henry Chen has inspired students in his Westwood Regional High School physics classroom — now, his ...