About the Physics Classroom
About the Physics Classroom
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The Physics Classroom is an online, free-to-use physics website developed by Tom Henderson in 1996 primarily for beginning physics students and their teachers. The website features a variety of sections intended to support both teachers and students in the tasks of learning and teaching physics. It is packed with classroom-ready and teacher-friendly resources. One of its features is the Physics Interactives.
Physics Interactives is a collection of HTML 5 interactive pages (can be simulation or skill-building exercises or game-like app) that allow users to explore a physics concept. These Interactives are intended to be used by the individual student or learner who is attempting to further understand the concept or by a teacher-led classroom as part of a lesson or homework assignment.
DLP_Physics_Godoy.pdfSample Lesson Plan using Physics Interactives by TPC
Sample Lesson Plan using Physics Interactives by TPC
In this lesson, Optics Bench Interactives was used for the learners to explore and to investigate the image formed in a concave and convex mirror in varying object's location. The learners are expected to navigate this STEM Tool and record their observations on their activity sheet.
After they record their observations, the learners answer the guide questions indicated on their activity sheet.
Optics Bench Interactives [Image, screenshot] Retrieved from: www.physicsclassroom.com
Physics Interactives: Optics Bench Simulation
Physics Interactives: Optics Bench Simulation
The Optics Bench Interactive provides a virtual optics bench for exploring the images formed by mirrors and lenses. As observed on the image, the TPC also provided downloadable worksheets entitled "Optics Bench - Curved Mirror Image Characteristics" for the use of this Interactive. The said simulation was developed by Nerd island Studios as cited in the website (www.physicsclassroom.com).
To explore the Optics Bench Simulation, click on the link below.
To view and download the worksheet provided by TPC, click on the link below.
https://www.physicsclassroom.com/Physics-Interactives/Reflection-and-Mirrors/Optics-Bench/Optics-Bench-Exercise-1
Optics Bench Lab Final.pdfWorksheet using Optics Bench Interactives
Worksheet using Optics Bench Interactives
This worksheet will utilized Optics Bench Simulation as a tool for the student to Explore the image formation due to the Reflection in Curved Mirrors. In the lesson plan, the worksheet will be used as an asynchronous activity which will then be discussed during the class' face-to-face meeting.
Snippet.mp4Reflection in Curved Mirrors Lab using Optics Bench Interactives by The Physics Classroom
Reflection in Curved Mirrors Lab using Optics Bench Interactives by The Physics Classroom
Watch this video to learn more about how to create a basic online manipulative for your class!
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