Hi Everyone,

If you are an experienced science teacher of any grade k-12, what advice could you offer a pre-service teacher just starting their teaching careers next fall? If you have tricks, tips, exemplary materials or just plain good advice from experience, please post it here. If you have materials related to physics and astronomy or great web resources for those subjects, please consider submitting them to The Physics Front — the NSDL/AAPT online collection for teachers K-12. Submit at http://thephysicsfront.org Thanks for your participation. We look forward to hearing from you, soon.

Dr. Cathy Ezrailson

Hi All,

I hope you have enjoyed the seminars and discussions posted here. How do you feel about learning and teaching through web seminars compared to traditional methods? How does Charging into Electrostatics compare with other web seminars you have participated in? If you were to create a web seminar for your students, what methods used in the seminars you have seen would be important for you to include?

Dr. Cathy Ezrailson

Students often have a general sense of what happens with static electricity, but it is common for them to hold onto misconceptions about it. We even found this to be true for us on the seminar presentation! How can you make students understand these concepts better? How do online resources like The Physics Front and other resources from comPADRE help?

Hi Everyone,

Please feel free to post questions you may have about static electricity, thephysicsfront.org and teaching about science in general on this blog. I look forward to hearing from you,

Cathy Ezrailson

Hi Everyone,
Jan Mader and I are looking forward to our web seminar, January 30th. It will be interactive and I invite you to grab a roll of scotch magic tape, a balloon, if you have one handy and your good questions and meet us online. Meanwhile, be sure to browse the static electricity and other resources on ThePhysicsFront.org and take our short quiz.
“See” you soon,
Cathy Ezrailson

Learn more about the next upcoming NSDL seminar on January 30th , Charging into Electrostatics with ComPADRE, the NSDL Pathway Portal for astronomy and physics and register today!