A Simple Machines Lab for Seventh Grade Students

Authors

Peter H. Sweedy, Davenport Community SchoolsFollow

Document Type

Article

Abstract

Having taught physical science for two years at the high school level, my new assignment to teach seventh grade science was met with mixed emotions. I had heard that junior high students were very energetic (mostly for mischief) and were very limited in learning ability, due to a low reading level and a lack of mathematical skills. I know I had also wondered, like many of you in high school and college teaching, just why did high school age students have such poor concepts of motion, energy, light, sound and graph interpretation and use.

Publication Date

January 1972

Journal Title

Iowa Science Teachers' Journal

Volume

9

Issue

2

First Page

31

Last Page

36

Copyright

© Copyright 1972 by the Iowa Academy of Science

Language

en

File Format

application/pdf

Recommended Citation

Sweedy, Peter H. (1972) "A Simple Machines Lab for Seventh Grade Students," Iowa Science Teachers Journal: Vol. 9: No. 2, Article 13.
Available at: https://scholarworks.uni.edu/istj/vol9/iss2/13