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Activity inspired by Medieval Observers with Tube
(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 ... -
Arethusa : a fountain through sculpture
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1980)The major work for this thesis is the creation of a sculpture, constructed as an independently running fountain. The sculpture is composed of ceramic figures, and is installed at the M.I.T. Student Center Library. The ... -
Charles Grafton Page's Experiment with a Spiral Conductor
(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
(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 ... -
Dream Trains, Electromagnetic Possibilities and Trial Runs: Early Explorations in Electromagnetic Traction by Rail
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Earth Grounds and Heavenly Spires: Lightning Rod Men, Patent Inventors and Telegraphers
(American Philosophical Society, 2009) -
Effects, Devices and Adventures
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Experimenting with magnetism: Ways of learning of Joann and Faraday
(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 ... -
Exploring mirrors, recreating science and history, becoming a class community
(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 ... -
Faraday and Piaget: Experimenting in relation with the world
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Frances Gertrude Wick (1875-1941)
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Historical Experiments in Students’ Hands: Unfragmenting Science through Action and History
(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’ ... -
Introducing Investigation into the Teaching and Learning Experiences of New Teachers of Science
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Introductory paper on critical explorations in teaching art, science, and teacher education
(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
(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 ... -
Metaphors of nature : the vision of Cézanne, Monet, and Poincaré.
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1978)