Teaching-Related Grants to KSU Physics
The grants listed here include only those grants which were for the improvement of physics treaching at KSU. Descriptions of grants for instructional materials development and research on physics learning-teaching of the
KSU Physics Education Research Group can be found on the group's web pages.
Equipment Grant: Physics Activities Center Equipment
National Science Foundation, 1973-75
Activity-Based Physics for Elementary Education Majors
National Science Foundation, 1979-81
- Learning Cycles in a Large Enrollment Class,
The Physics Teacher ,28, 20-25 (1990).
- "An Activity Based Physics Course for Elementary Education Majors", in Preliminary Case Studies in Information Technology, National Research Council (1997).
- A Model for Reform in Teaching Physics: Large Enrollment Physics Classes,
Research in Science Education: Reform in Undergraduate Science Teaching for the 21st Century. in D.W. Sunal, E. L. Wright, & J. Bland (eds.)Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing Inc. (2004).
- "Learning Cycle Physics," in The Changing Role of Physics Departments in Modern Universities, pp 1137-1150, E.F. Redish & John Rigden (eds.), College Park: American Institute of Physics (1997).
Equipment Grant: Physics Labs with Videodisc-Computer Systems
National Science Foundation, 1981-83
- "Interactive Videodiscs for Teaching Classical Mechanics," The Many Faces of Teaching and Learning Mechanics, P. L. Lijnse (ed.) W.C.C., Utrecht, The Netherlands (1985)
- "Interactive Video: The Combination of Microcomputers and Videodiscs," in Microcomputers in Science Education, George Marx and Paul Szucs, eds. International Centre for Educational Technology, Veszprem, Hungary, (1985)
- Interactive Video Activities for Elementary Education Students in 101 Success Stories of Information Technology in Higher Education, Judith V. Boettcher (ed.), McGraw Hill, New York (1993).
A Novel Continuing Education Science Update Program for Kansas High School Teachers
National Science Foundation, 1985-86
GENE Web site.
A Regional Continuing Education Program on Modern Genetics for Secondary School Teachers
National Science Foundation, 1987-90
GENE Web site.
Distance Education for Certification in Physics
Title II of the Education for Economic Security Act, 1987-89
The Development of an Innovative Model for the Preservice Preparation of Elementary Teachers
National Science Foundation, 1991-96
Equipment Grant: Contemporary Physics Laboratories for Future Secondary Science Teachers
National Science Foundation, 1992-94
Teaching about Lasers and Quantum Science for Middle and High School Students
Eisenhower Professional Development Program, 1997-99
Enhancing the Teaching of Contemporary Physics Through Online Instruction for Teachers
Eisenhower Professional Development Program, 2001-02
A New Studio Format for Calculus-Based Physcs
National Science Foundation, 1999-2002
Implementation of the Interactive Studio Concept to an Upper Level Physics Course: Studio Optics
National Science Foundation, 2005-2008
PDAs as Classroom Response Systems
HP Technology for Teaching Grant, 2004-2006
Going WILD (Wandering Interactive Laboratories & Demonstrations) with HP
HP Technology for Teaching Grant, 2007-2009
Integrating Experimentation and Instrumentation in
Upper-Division Physics
National Science Foundation, 2009-12
