Browsing Cavicchi, Elizabeth by Author "Cavicchi, Elizabeth"
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Activity inspired by Medieval Observers with Tube
Cavicchi, Elizabeth (Universitalia, 2010)For one born to French peasants, Gerbert took advantage of exceptional educational opportunities: monastic training at Aurillac; mathematical studies in Spain; tutoring the Pope and Emperor in Rome. Serving Reims cathedral ... -
Blind Experimenting in a Sighted World: The Electrical Innovations of Jonathan Nash Hearder
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Charles Grafton Page's Experiment with a Spiral Conductor
Cavicchi, Elizabeth (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008)In the 1830s, American experimenter Charles Grafton Page pioneered electromagnetism, developing instruments, experimental practice, and understandings that were foundational for nineteenth-century technologies such as the ... -
Classroom Explorations: Pendulums, Mirrors, and Galileo’s Drama
Cavicchi, Elizabeth (Springer Science+Business Media, 2011-02)What do you see in a mirror when not looking at yourself? What goes on as a pendulum swings? Undergraduates in a science class supposed that these behaviors were obvious until their explorations exposed questions with no ... -
Curiosity Opens Relationships of the World and with Others: Narratives from Doing Teaching and Learning Through Curiosity
Cavicchi, Elizabeth (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2024-06-23)What potentials does curiosity bear for education? Some characterizations portray curiosity as self-motivated search for answers, a drive conformable with conventional education’s imperative for correct answers. For ... -
Dream Trains, Electromagnetic Possibilities and Trial Runs: Early Explorations in Electromagnetic Traction by Rail
Cavicchi, Elizabeth (Six Martlets Publishing, 2016) -
Earth Grounds and Heavenly Spires: Lightning Rod Men, Patent Inventors and Telegraphers
Cavicchi, Elizabeth (American Philosophical Society, 2009) -
Effects, Devices and Adventures
Cavicchi, Elizabeth (2019) -
Experimenting with magnetism: Ways of learning of Joann and Faraday
Cavicchi, Elizabeth (American Journal of Physics, 1997)This paper narrates learning as it evolved through experimental work and interpretation in two distinct investigations: the explorations of permanent magnets and needles conducted by a student, Joann, as I interactively ... -
Experimenting with Wires, Batteries, Bulbs and the Induction Coil: Narratives of Teaching and Learning Physics in the Electrical Investigations of Laura, David, Jamie, Myself and the Nineteenth Century Experimenters -- Our Developments and Instruments
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Exploring mirrors, recreating science and history, becoming a class community
Cavicchi, Elizabeth (Association of Teacher Educators, 2009)A teacher narrates from activities and discussions that arose among undergraduates and herself while doing critical explorations of mirrors. Surprised by light's behaviors, the students responded with curiosity, losing ... -
Frances Gertrude Wick (1875-1941)
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Historical Experiments in Students’ Hands: Unfragmenting Science through Action and History
Cavicchi, Elizabeth (Springer-Verlag, 2008-08)Two students, meeting together with a teacher, redid historical experiments. Unlike conventional instruction where science topics and practices often fragment, they experienced interrelatedness among phenomena, participants’ ... -
Historical Scientific Instruments in Exploratory Teaching and Learning
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Introducing Investigation into the Teaching and Learning Experiences of New Teachers of Science
Cavicchi, Elizabeth; Hughes-McDonnell, Fiona (Education Resources Information Center, 2001) -
Introductory paper on critical explorations in teaching art, science, and teacher education
Cavicchi, Elizabeth; Chiu, Son-Mey; McDonnell, Fiona (Taylor & Francis, 2009)The authors of the three papers in this issue discuss and analyze the practice underlying “critical exploration,” a research pedagogy applied in common within their separate art, science, and teacher education classrooms. ... -
Learning Science as Explorers: Historical Resonances, Inventive Instruments, Evolving Community
Cavicchi, Elizabeth (Springer Netherlands, 2015-02)Doing science as explorers, students observe, wonder and question the unknown, stretching their experience. To engage students as explorers depends on their safety in expressing uncertainty and taking risks. I create these ... -
Mirrors, swinging weights, lightbulbs…: Simple experiments and history help a class become a community
Cavicchi, Elizabeth (https://www.frank-timme.de/en/programme/product/constructing_scientific_understanding_through_contextual_teaching, 2007) -
Nineteenth-Century Developments in Coiled Instruments and Experiences with Electromagnetic Induction
Cavicchi, Elizabeth (Informa UK Limited, 2006)Faraday demonstrated electromagnetic induction in 1831 using an iron ring wound with two wire coils; on interrupting battery current in one coil, momentary currents arose in the other. Between Faraday’s ring and the induction ... -
Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy of Polymers
Cavicchi, Elizabeth; Kumar, Jayant; Tripathy, Sukani (Elsevier Press, 1989)