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open ended inquiry= great idea - frustrating reality

Submitted by Steve Cooney (guest) on Tue, 05/04/2010 - 1:26pm.

Sorry I have not gotten back to this forum much this year, but its been a lot more hectic than I'd imagined when I was given a new course to teach as a physics elective to a bunch of intellectually hungry seniors.

I presented the top two sections of my 9th grade Active Physics classes with the opportunity to create a lab to validate Newton's Second Law of Motion; F=m•a. The lack of effort by many (fortunately not all) and the lack of interest in having a chance to creatively design this lab is mind numbing. I'm going to embrace the few kids who have actively worked to do the assignment and 'reward' those uninterested masses with an appropriate grade.

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