Alfred P. Gage and the Introductory Physics Laboratory
- 1 March 2016
- journal article
- Published by American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) in The Physics Teacher
- Vol. 54 (3), 148-149
- https://doi.org/10.1119/1.4942134
Abstract
This article is about a late 19th-century teacher of secondary school physics. I was originally interested in the apparatus that he sold. This led me to the physics books that he wrote, and these took me to his unusual ideas about ways to use laboratory time to introduce students to the phenomena of physics. More than 100 years later educational ideas have now come full circle, and it is time to bring Gage and his texts and ideas to 21st-century physics teachers.Keywords
This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- Edwin Hall and the emergence of the laboratory in teaching physicsThe Physics Teacher, 1976
- ALFRED PAYSON GAGESchool Science and Mathematics, 1903