Old School Meets High Tech

At Donna Klein Jewish Academy Rosenblatt High School we like to use a combination of old school techniques and high tech equipment to give students a broad range of experiences and knowledge to apply in the classroom and in their lives.

A few weeks ago the students used a simple spring attached to a wooden cart to find out how fast it was moving in our hallways, using a timer. Beginning last week we brought them into modern times and let them use photogates and carts on specially designed ramps so that they could find out to 10000th of a second how fast their cars are moving. The students enjoyed the exposure to these materials and are using it as a springboard to numerous other topics as we expand into forces and acceleration.

Please stay tuned for future labs and demonstrations where students begin to really see the physics in our world as we create zero friction environments and have them apply their previous knowledge to determine the course and type of movement of virtually any object.