Phys 3071W.001

The workload, grade and effort percentages in this document are subject to change on the syllabus. This course is intended to provide a rich, hands-on experience in a selection of elementary physics material especially chosen to be useful for potential elementary teachers. The course is activity-based (performing experiments and working with computers) and discussion-oriented (discussing ideas with your classmates) with four major goals: (1) to help you constuct a set of physics ideas that you can apply to explain phenomena taht are intrinsically interesting at a level appropriate to an elementary school science curriculum; (2) to help you develop more positive attitudes about science; (2) to help you learn the nature of science, so you will have more confidence in your ability to do science, and (4) to help you become more aware of, and more in control of, your own learning. You will find many of our teaching and learning strategies valuable and appropriate for you to use when you begin your teaching career. This course will be "Web Enhanced" including: have all or part of a syllabus, answers to exams, readings, lecture notes, course work by students, ro any other course related documents published electronically in a home page on the World Wide Web.