Reaching Nonscience Students Through Science Fiction

• Autores: Donald A. Smith
• Localización: The Physics Teacher, ISSN 0031-921X, Vol. 47, Nº. 5, 2009, págs. 302-305
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In 2006 I had the chance to design a physics course for students not majoring in scientific fields. I chose to shape the course around science fiction, not as a source for quantitative problems but as a means for conveying important physics concepts. I hoped that, by encountering these concepts in narratives, students with little or no science or math training might become more comfortable with them. I also thought the stories might provide the ideas with a context that would enable students to remember them more clearly than if they were reading a physics textbook.