From: Katie Johnson (johnson5@madison.k12.wi.us)
Date: Mon Feb 03 2003 - 13:19:41 EST
Would be interested to see your pre-questionnaire. Can you post the
questions? Perhaps as an attachment?
Thanks
At 12:32 PM 2/1/03 -0700, you wrote:
> We found out this year that our students could not understand light at
>all. We had a pre-questionnaire in which we asked them about radiowaves,
>how their eyes perceived light, colors, etc. Once we had them fill out the
>questionnaire we talked about light and straightened out their many
>misconceptions. Then we edited our old flame lab to include examples of
>lightbulbs and fluorescent bulbs and even looked at some spectral images of
> different stars and the absorption and emission lines. It made them get
>the lab much better.
Katherine Johnson
Chemistry Teacher
Madison East High School
Madison, Wisconsin
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