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The Weather Balloon Project - Failure is Not an Option
High-school physics teacher Raymond Cirmo describes how he challenged his AP Physics B class to apply everything they learned to launching a video camera as high above the earth’s surface as possible and recording the journey there and back. “I announced to the students that the year’s curriculum would be taught as it has always been,” he says. “However, at the conclusion of each unit, they would need to present to the class how the material they had just learned applied to this project. Finally, I told the class that, in order to accomplish the assigned task, they had to actually build and launch the device they designed together.” Students struggled, cooperated, and… Here’s their report:
“Getting Our Students to Own Their Educational Experience” by Raymond Cirmo in Independent School, Winter 2014 (Vol. 73, #2, p. 12, 14), http://bit.ly/1h9Ocpj
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