Using an engagement lens to model active learning in the geosciences

ND LaDue, PM McNeal, K Ryker… - Journal of …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Active learning research emerged from the undergraduate STEM education communities of
practice, some of whom identify as discipline-based education researchers (DBER) …

Investigation of pre-service chemistry teachers' understanding of radioactive decay: a laboratory modelling activity

SN Yeşiloğlu - Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
The first purpose of this study was to introduce a laboratory modelling activity focusing on
teaching the concepts of radioactive elements/atoms, radioactive decay, and half-life. The …

An Experimental Analogy for Teaching the Law of Radioactive Decays in Secondary School Classrooms

XC Vidal, RC Manzano, IV Lema - The Physics Teacher, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
In this work, we present an experimental approximation to the study of the phenomenon of
radioactivity in secondary schools, taking as an analogy the process of release of carbon …

Decay, accumulation, and growth to stability in dynamic systems: investigating similarities and differences for teaching purposes

K Atkin - Physics Education, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper was inspired by the work of a previous contributor on the subject of modelling
plague epidemiology by comparing it to the physics of series radioactive decay, RC …

[CITATION][C] Modeling Radioactive Decay Series Phenomenon Involving First-Order Differential Equation and Visualizing Solutions Using Open-Source Software …

R Menon, M Verma, D Haridas, A Tanwar - The Physics Educator, 2024 - World Scientific
Numerous physical and chemical processes can be accurately described by first-order
differential equations and can be solved through analytical methods. The solutions to these …