published: volume 1, number 1 (2000)

Teaching physics of everyday life: Project-based instruction and collaborative work in undergraduate physics course for nonscience majors

Marina Milner-Bolotin
Marilla D. Svinicki

both of:
Department of Science Education
College of Education
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78712
marinamb@physics.utexas.edu

abstract

In the current paper, we describe a project-based physical science course for nonscience
majors designed and implemented at the University of Texas at Austin during the fall
semester of 1999. We focus on practical implications of project-based instruction1 in
motivating nonscience majors in science study, as well as the challenges the students and
the instructors encountered during the course. Cognitive, attitudinal and social outcomes of
the project-based physical science course as reported by the students throughout the
semester are also discussed.

links to article

read this paper print this paper discuss this paper


This page has been visited Hit Counter times since June 1, 2002.

© 2000-2003 Board of Trustees of Indiana University
Terms of Use