Sensible Physics Teaching, by Michael D'Aleo and Stephen Edelglass

This book guides middle school teachers through a sense-based science pedagogy with a carefully developed sequence of experiments, described in detail and easy to follow. The emphasis is on the students' experience: by observing this intriguing sequence of phenomena and deriving scientific concepts from them, students build an authentic relationship to -- and interest in-- the world.

Contents:

• Introduction to Sense Based Science
• Sixth Grade Physics
• Sound-- Acoustics
• Visual Experience-- Optics
• Warmth and Cold
• Electricity and Magnetism
• Seventh Grade Physics
• Warmth and Cold
• Visual Experience-- Optics
• Electrical Phenomena
• Mechanics
• Eighth Grade Physics
• Warmth-- Thermal Physics
• Visual Phenomena-- Refraction
• Hydraulics and Aero-Mechanics
• Electromagnetism
• Apparatus and Supplies List and Sources