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Wednesday, October 30, 2002

LabTime Fun

I'm hanging out with my Physical Science class while they learn about motion. They're moving in front of the motion detectors and there are a lot of smiles and a lot of laughter. Regular students, learning physics, having fun. Who would have thought it. A big part of the fun is due to the computers and interfaces that allow them to graph their motion in live time. They get to see what their moving produces without all of the math getting in the way. This stuff, combined with a simulation package that we'll use in a couple of days, will get them feeling good about motion. Hopefully, they'll begin to get an intuitive feel for distance, position, speed and velocity. In time they won't think it's quite so much fun but the happy faces are good right now.

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