Saturday, November 30, 2019

My Mechanical Universe Sagrada Família

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I've been enjoying moving my Mechanical Universe curriculum out of the classroom and into the realm of YouTube homework this year. Post...

The Heat Playlist of Phyz

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I fear I might be the last high school physics instructor around still teaching heat and temperature. I don't get any sense that NGSS ne...
Saturday, October 26, 2019

Slow your roll

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If you're not following Frank Noschese ( @fnoschese ) on Twitter, why even be a physics teacher with a Twitter account? And if you get...
Monday, October 07, 2019

Doggies on a waxed floor

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Where will you use it: inertia, friction, centripetal force? I don't think students will mind if you use it for all of those. Can ...
Thursday, October 03, 2019

Whiplash Model

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As I'm starting Forces and Newton's Laws of Motion in my Conceptual Physics class I am bringing out every demo I've got on inert...
Wednesday, September 25, 2019

The Forces Playlist of Phyz

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The Forces Playlist of Phyz SONG ARTIST YEAR Carry That Weight The Beatles 1969 First Push DeVotcKa 2005 Force of Nature (Bonus Track) ...
Saturday, September 21, 2019

Where we are with phones in the classroom

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Students being distracted by phones at school began registering in the early 2010s. By the late 2010s, the problem was full-blown. Teach...
Sunday, September 15, 2019

The threat of gun violence at schools

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When I began teaching in 1986, all the doors on my school's sprawling 64-acre campus opened via doorknobs. And those doorknobs locked fr...
Sunday, September 01, 2019

Mechanical Universe all episode access page

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If you want a single page with easy-to-find links to every episode of The Mechanical Universe , we have something in common. I made such a...

The Motion Playlist of Phyz

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The long-awaited Motion Playlist of Phyz is now here. Enjoy! This playlist is long. You might want to break it up into two smaller playl...