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Photoelectric Effect Lesson
http://ed.fnal.gov/projects/photoe_lab/index.html
This website would be used for an advanced level science high school class. The website is designed to help teachers demonstrate the photoelectric effect and keep kids engaged in the activity. The photoelectric effect is demonstrated in many books and sometimes lectures, but there are very few labs that exist demonstrating this phenomenon. This is why this lesson is so great because it gives teachers the opportunity to teach to different student’s learning styles and to keep students engaged in the lesson. I would use this website in my classroom by having students work in groups together by using the virtual lab to understand the photoelectric effect. I would approach the lab in a constructivist manner, by giving my students the power to explore the lab and determine their own concept based on their findings from the virtual lab. I hope that academically it will increase their grades on tests or homework on this topic because the students will have a better understanding of the topic. The students are forced to think critically during the lab and in order to complete the lab and its questions, critical thinking must take place through experiments. This is a great example of how teaching in a constructivist manner can result in critical thinking, which in turn will result in a deeper understanding of the topic. This is the goal of education these days and it is important that students are able to think critically in situations where it is deemed impossible to do so. Tim Brennan, who developed the lesson plan and website, was trying to give teachers an opportunity to teach to all students learning styles and to develop critical thinking in students by having students be engaged in the lesson rather than reading a textbook or listening to a teacher describe the phenomenon through still pictures. Students will be assessed on a concrete academic level by their response to lab questions or test questions. I believe that the students will be assessed in a non-concrete academic level by their ability to describe their results to students in their class or to describe the photoelectric effect in a complete manner. I have always been a firm believer that if a student can teach another student a topic than that student was using critical thinking when learning the topic because they have developed a deep understanding of the topic. In this lesson the teacher is actually given the opportunity to be the “facilitator” (2003) while the students are “allowed to do their own learning” as Piaget suggested (1997). This is the perfect opportunity to use the constructivist approach in the classroom and it is a good opportunity for students at all levels or learning styles to grasp the concept of the photoelectric effect.
Richardson, Virginia. (2003). Constructivist Pedagogy. Teachers College Record. Vol. 105 Issue 9, p.1623-1640.
Springston, Timothy; Abdallah-Shahid, Jawairriya, & Scott, Denise. (1997). A Biological Theory of Knowledge.[WWW document]. URL http://web.cortland.edu/andersmd/PIAGET/bio.HTML
This website would be used for an advanced level science high school class. The website is designed to help teachers demonstrate the photoelectric effect and keep kids engaged in the activity. The photoelectric effect is demonstrated in many books and sometimes lectures, but there are very few labs that exist demonstrating this phenomenon. This is why this lesson is so great because it gives teachers the opportunity to teach to different student’s learning styles and to keep students engaged in the lesson. I would use this website in my classroom by having students work in groups together by using the virtual lab to understand the photoelectric effect. I would approach the lab in a constructivist manner, by giving my students the power to explore the lab and determine their own concept based on their findings from the virtual lab. I hope that academically it will increase their grades on tests or homework on this topic because the students will have a better understanding of the topic. The students are forced to think critically during the lab and in order to complete the lab and its questions, critical thinking must take place through experiments. This is a great example of how teaching in a constructivist manner can result in critical thinking, which in turn will result in a deeper understanding of the topic. This is the goal of education these days and it is important that students are able to think critically in situations where it is deemed impossible to do so. Tim Brennan, who developed the lesson plan and website, was trying to give teachers an opportunity to teach to all students learning styles and to develop critical thinking in students by having students be engaged in the lesson rather than reading a textbook or listening to a teacher describe the phenomenon through still pictures. Students will be assessed on a concrete academic level by their response to lab questions or test questions. I believe that the students will be assessed in a non-concrete academic level by their ability to describe their results to students in their class or to describe the photoelectric effect in a complete manner. I have always been a firm believer that if a student can teach another student a topic than that student was using critical thinking when learning the topic because they have developed a deep understanding of the topic. In this lesson the teacher is actually given the opportunity to be the “facilitator” (2003) while the students are “allowed to do their own learning” as Piaget suggested (1997). This is the perfect opportunity to use the constructivist approach in the classroom and it is a good opportunity for students at all levels or learning styles to grasp the concept of the photoelectric effect.
Richardson, Virginia. (2003). Constructivist Pedagogy. Teachers College Record. Vol. 105 Issue 9, p.1623-1640.
Springston, Timothy; Abdallah-Shahid, Jawairriya, & Scott, Denise. (1997). A Biological Theory of Knowledge.[WWW document]. URL http://web.cortland.edu/andersmd/PIAGET/bio.HTML
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