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Lawton, Ericka; Obenland, Carrie; Barr, Christopher; Cushing, Matthew; Nichol, Carolyn – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2021
Physics program for girls (PPG) is a two-week program held every summer since 2006, with the goal of engaging young women in inquiry-based physics experiments and to connect them with female science, technology, engineering, and mathematics professional role models. The program recruits young women to participate the summer after they have taken…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Outcomes of Education
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Marshall, Pamela A. – American Biology Teacher, 2013
Students need practice in proposing hypotheses, developing experiments that will test these hypotheses, and generating data that they will analyze to support or refute them. I describe a guided-inquiry activity based on the "tongue map" concept, appropriate for middle school and high school students.
Descriptors: Hypothesis Testing, Research Skills, Student Research, Science Experiments