Teaching and Learning Physics
week V assignments

Tues 9/20: looking at underpinning theories of cognition: robust knowledge structures and knowledge in pieces

Redish, Teaching and Learning Physics: begin chapter 2: pp 18-29 and 42-43; 142-146 - Jon. C.

diSessa (handed out in class / available at my office): Chapter 5 _Changing Minds_ - Ward

optional Chapter 4 - Handed out.

Thurs 9/22: Capacitance

HRW: pp 590 -610

YOUR HOMEWORK HAS ALSO CHANGED FOR THIS WEEK:

in ADDITION to the chapter summary, your job is to SELECT 4 questions for this chapter. For each question:

• include the question
• list what the goals of the question are -- what is it getting at
• what the students should do to solve the question
• why this is a good question -- why it reaches these goals.

Please be going to fieldsite / sending in notes... soon I will ask for a project description.