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Remote Teaching Resources

It’s a hectic time for teaching, and our circumstances change every day. Fortunately, there are resources out there to help with making an online class engaging and informative.

UMD’s Keep Teaching #4Maryland site offers links to university resources for instructors, including ELMS tips, Labster simulated experiments, and library resources. Check it out at https://svp.umd.edu/keepteaching.

UMD IT also offers a catalog of resources for teaching and learning; check it out here!

Here at the Physics Lecture-Demonstration Facility, we’re compiling additional resources to help with remote and distanced learning.

  • We have begun creating animated Teaching Aids to help explicate popular demonstrations and other important aspects of physics; as we post them you can find them linked on the individual demonstration pages and on the Teaching Aids gallery page.

  • We are compiling a Directory of Simulations from elsewhere on the web as well, with tested simulations for many categories of physics, including some very difficult to demonstrate in the classroom. Check them out here!

  • And don’t forget to explore this very blog for Demonstration Highlights that may include videos, simulations, and at-home activities; and News Tips with recent events in science. Every blog post also has topical tags to link you to other related articles in the blog.

  • UPDATE 10/1/2020: Be sure to check out our new Demonstration Videos channel!

 

Some additional articles and websites with tips:

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  1. STEM News Tip: New Gravitational Waves Discoveries!
  2. Atwood's Machine: Testing Newton’s Second Law
  3. STEM News Tip: Some new articles in science teaching & information, August 2020
  4. Demonstration Highlight: Masses Dropped and Shot
  5. STEM News Tip: Native American Physics & Astronomy
  6. STEM News Tip: Titan and its Atmosphere on APOD
  7. STEM News Tip: COVID-19 impact on research
  8. The Tablecloth, the Coin, and Other Adventures with Inertia
  9. Quantum Demonstration and Simulation: The Hydrogen Atom
  10. STEM News Tip: New Atmospheric Phenomena Spotted on Venus
  11. STEM News Tip: SPS Virtual Colloquium
  12. Demonstration Highlight: Simple Harmonic Motion & Uniform Circular Motion
  13. STEM News Tip: Meteor Showers and Rain Showers
  14. STEM News Tip: Sonic Tourism
  15. Demonstration Highlight: Electromagnet
  16. STEM News Tip: Mars 2020 launches this week!
  17. STEM News Tip: Nova Reticuli 2020
  18. How many demonstrations?
  19. STEM News Tip: Solar Observer webcast this week!
  20. STEM News Tip: Children Learning About Gears
  21. Space News: The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
  22. Demo Highlight: Vector Addition
  23. Demonstration Highlight: The Pencil and Plywood Experiment
  24. Demo Highlight: The Ripple Tank and a Ripple Tank Simulator
  25. Demo Highlight: The Racing Balls in Slow Motion
  26. Happy birthday, Alexander Müller
  27. New Demonstration: The Paramagnetism of a Dysprosium Pendulum
  28. Welcome to Spring 2020
  29. Light Up the Night: Neon and "Neon" Lights
  30. A Heated Discussion In Class
  31. The Physics Soda Can Returns: Electrostatic Induction
  32. Physics Teatime 3: Do Not Try This At Home
  33. Introducing Our Newest Center of Mass Demonstration
  34. FLIGHT!
  35. Happy Birthday Carl Sagan
  36. Hot Air Balloon
  37. Upcoming Events at UMD Physics!
  38. Welcome to Fall 2019!
  39. Summer Hiatus
  40. Phun with Electrons: Particle or Wave?
  41. Physics Teatime 2: On The Making Of Tea
  42. On the Choosing of Demonstrations
  43. Teatime in Physics
  44. Happy Birthday to Émilie du Châtelet
  45. Seeing Sound: Vibrations on a Plate
  46. Women Nobel Laureates in Physics
  47. Coming Soon: Physics is Phun presents Induction and Deduction
  48. New Portable Ripple Tank
  49. Irene Joliot-Curie
  50. New Demos: Buoyancy and Electromagnetic Forces
  51. Falling into Free Fall
  52. Happy 100th Birthday Katherine Johnson!
  53. Demonstration Orders for the Fall Semester
  54. Welcome!