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Helpful Tips and
Resources from CPU Users
The tips, resource references, and web
sites listed below have been shared with the CPU Project by
teachers who have used CPU in classrooms or workshops. In an
effort to be helpful, CPU shares this information with the
public. However, CPU does not necessarily endorse or take
responsibility for this content.
This page willl be updated as
information is passed along to CPU. If you have any useful
information that you would like to share on this web page,
please contact
CPU.
Pedagogy
- Video on using inquiry methods in
high school math and science teaching: "Why won't you
tell me the answer? Inquiry in the high school
classroom." See http://WWW.nwrel.org/msec/resource/singleresource.asp?id=7527
- Video on using inquiry methods in
elementary math teaching: "Double-Column Addition: A
Teacher Uses Piaget's Theory." Teachers College Press.
Telephone 1-800-488-2665, FAX 802-864-7626. The order
number is TCP No. 3009-2. $55.00 plus $2.50 for shipping
& handling.
Light and Color
Unit
Static Electricity and Magnetism
Unit
- Useful equipment suggestions,
http://www.physics.iupui.edu/cpu/equipment.html
- Some users reported that coffee
stirrers that are crimped down the middle worked better
than flat coffee stirrers.
- A demagnitizer for videotapes
works well to demagnitize nails.
- Cleaning the plexiglass with white
board cleaner works well.
Motion and Force
Unit
- The expensive tracks used in the
Motion and Force Unit may be replaced with homemade ones.
Download plans: PseudoPascoTracks.doc
(Word 97/98 document).
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