PHY 150L - Physical Science Investigations 2, 3 credit hours

This physics course is designed for teachers in the upper elementary and middle school to improve the learning and teaching of basic physics concepts, and is intended as a complement to CHM 150L. Students will spend considerable time in the laboratory completing investigations that, in addition to exposing and clarifying basic physics concepts, can be used for effectively teaching students about physics. Ohio state science standards will be used as a guide for determining specific items of study. Topics covered include: sound, light and color, electricity, magnetism, properties of matter, the atom, force and motion, simple machines, force and fluids, and measurement.