Five Easy Lessons: Strategies for Successful Physics Teaching

by Randall D. Knight

Five Easy Lessons: Strategies for Successful Physics Teaching is a paperback book packed with creative tips on how instructors can enhance and improve their physics class instruction techniques. It's an invaluable companion to Randy Knight's Physics for Scientists and Engineers ― or for any physics course.

Genres: Education, Science, Physics

352 pages, Paperback

First published September 19, 2002

Reviews

[Arnoud Visser]

I like this physics guy. Not just theory, but pre-tests and post-test to measure the knowledge gained. Part I is also applicable to any other science education, although the setting is a bit American (large classes, freshman directly from highschool).

[Brittany · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is brilliant. Every physics teacher should read it.

[Raquel · Rating 5 out of 5]

An absolute MUST for anyone teaching or assisting in physics. There are many great strategies and concepts to help you start teaching physics in a way that is student focused and brings everyone success. Not everything is perfect and I found several things that I don’t agree with or would do differently but this book has so many more important and useful things!

I used it as a textbook supplement in my Physics Education Research class in college and I will continue to read it when I become a full time teacher.

[Luke Vanderwerff · Rating 3 out of 5]

I did not read every word in this book. I read the sections on topics I was teaching at the time and they were moderately useful. I would not buy this book but it is worth it to reference if you can acquire it from the library.

[Kiehl Christie · Rating 5 out of 5]

I don't know how to teach physics.

This book makes it a lot easier.

[Jacqueline]

Great book for understanding what physics students believe, and how they learn and think.