Speaker
Tatiana Stantcheva
(Northern Virginia Community College)
Description
The rapid technological advances and the availability of public scientific data have broken the rigid boundaries of labs. Why bring your students to the physics lab room to teach them how to use this or that potentially outdated instrument? What should we teach our students in the physics lab? Why not send them out to explore independently and bring them back to the classroom for pre-lab instructions and post-lab discussions only? And what if you can do so at $50 per student per semester or less? Join me for a brief presentation of how I have turned my introductory lab curriculum on its head and gained in the process regarding student engagement, accessibility, and affordability.
Primary author
Tatiana Stantcheva
(Northern Virginia Community College)
