Teaching Strategies​

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Concepts in Electricity and Magnetism can be a little hard to visualize.  In particular, the fields around wires and coils, and their interaction with moving charges may be a little hard to understand at first.  In the provided lessons, effort is made to bring the concepts to life through the use of media, and in particular simple experiments with readily available equipment that can help students investigate on their own or in pairs.

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Likewise, it is important to make it easier for students to build connections with prior material.  In particular, principles such as potential energy and conservation re-appear in this unit, albeit in slightly different form.  It is useful to leverage parallel concepts, where possible.

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Students can readily be given opportunity to demonstrate their understanding through different media, such as diagrams, videos, or poetry.