Course Name: Phys 1020L (cross-listed with Chem 1020L)
Course Name: Physical Sciences for Elementary Education
Credits: 3 Cr
Course Instructors: John Hauptman hauptman@iastate.edu and Katherine Burke
PreReq: Credit or enrollment in MATH 1950 or permission of instructor
Course description
Physical science principles for future elementary school teachers. Emphasis on experiments that address current elementary science education standards and that are appropriate for their future students to do, such as measurements of mass, length, time, light from atoms, charge and current, motion due to forces, energy and work, heat, waves, optics, building bridges and making musical instruments, and studying states of matter and chemical reactions. Offered in the Fall semester.