Teaching Fluids to IPLS Students from a Microscopic Viewpoint

Meredith, Dawn C.; Young, Daniel E.

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Teaching Fluids to IPLS Students from a Microscopic Viewpoint

written by Dawn C. Meredith and Daniel E. Young

For introductory life science students, fluid dynamics is a topic of great relevance, yet difficult to understand conceptually. This pilot study focuses on implementing and assessing curricular interventions to help students understand pressure, vacuums, and pressure gradients. Our pedagogical strategy was to focus on mechanistic reasoning and a multiple-scale view of fluids. Student learning was assessed through open-ended conceptual questions administered before and after instruction. Initial results show that significant gains were achieved.

Physics Education Research Conference 2013
Part of the PER Conference series
Portland, OR: July 17-18, 2013
Pages 373-376

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Published: February 1, 2014

Subjects	Levels	Resource Types
Education - Applied Research - Instructional Material Design - Pedagogy = Multidisciplinary Education - Basic Research - Problem Solving = Processes - Student Characteristics = Affect Fluid Mechanics - Dynamics of Fluids	- Lower Undergraduate	- Reference Material = Research study

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Mirror:: https://doi.org/10.1119/perc.2013…
Access Rights:: Free access
License:: This material is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the published article's author(s), title, proceedings citation, and DOI.
Rights Holder:: American Association of Physics Teachers
DOI:: 10.1119/perc.2013.pr.081
NSF Number:: 1044211
PACSs:: 01.40.-d; 01..40.G-; 51.10.+y; 47.15.-x
Keywords:: Fluids, Mechanistic Reasoning, PERC 2013, Pressure
Record Cloner:: Metadata instance created January 31, 2014 by Lyle Barbato
Record Updated:: January 31, 2014 by Lyle Barbato
Last Update when Cataloged:: December 16, 2013

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