COURSE UNIT TITLE

: ELECTIVE II (TEACHING OF MECHANICS)

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
OFZ 3018 ELECTIVE II (TEACHING OF MECHANICS) ELECTIVE 2 0 0 2

Offered By

Physics Teacher Education

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR RABIA TANEL

Offered to

Physics Teacher Education

Course Objective

This course aims to give fundamental knowledge and experience to teacher candidates about researches and applications on teaching mechanics topics at secondary level.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Being able to know identified misconceptions and learning difficulties related with mechanics topics.
2   Being able to explain reasons of misconceptions and learning difficulties related with mechanics topics.
3   Being able to develop materials that can be used for teaching mechanics topics.
4   Being able to design experiments that can be for teaching mechanics topics.
5   Being able to evaluate the teaching methods and techniques that can be used for teaching mechanics topics.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Discussions about misconceptions, learning difficulties and their reasons related with the topics of vectors.
2 Presentations and discussions on experiments and sample teaching materials that can be applied for teaching of vectors topics.
3 Discussions about misconceptions, learning difficulties and their reasons related with the topics of Newton's laws of motion.
4 Presentations and discussions on experiments and sample teaching materials that can be applied for teaching of Newton's laws of motion.
5 Discussions about misconceptions, learning difficulties and their reasons related with the topics of work, energy and energy conservations.
6 Presentations and discussions on experiments and sample teaching materials that can be applied for teaching of work, energy and energy conservations topics.
7 Mid-term Exam
8 Discussions about misconceptions, learning difficulties and their reasons related with the topics of linear momentum and its conservations.
9 Presentations and discussions on experiments and sample teaching materials that can be applied for teaching of linear momentum and its conservations topics.
10 Discussions about misconceptions, learning difficulties and their reasons related with the topics of heat, temperature, heat transfer and heat exchange.
11 Discussions about misconceptions, learning difficulties and their reasons related with the topics of heat, temperature, heat transfer and heat exchange.
12 Presentations and discussions on experiments and sample teaching materials that can be applied for teaching of heat, temperature, heat transfer and heat exchange topics.
13 Discussions and evaluations on teaching methods and techniques that can be applied for teaching the topics of vectors, Newton's law of motion, work, energy and energy conservations, linear momentum and its conservations, heat, temperature, heat transfer and heat exchange.
14 Discussions and evaluations on teaching methods and techniques that can be applied for teaching the topics of vectors, Newton's law of motion, work, energy and energy conservations, linear momentum and its conservations, heat, temperature, heat transfer and heat exchange.
15 Final Exam

Recomended or Required Reading

1. Serway R.A., Beichner R.J., Fen ve Mühendislik Için Fizik, Cilt II (Ed. Kemal Çolakoğlu) Palme Yayıncılık, Ankara, 2002.
2. Halliday D., Resnick R., Fiziğin Temelleri, Cilt II (Ed.Cengiz Yalçın) Arkadaş Yayınevi, Ankara, 1991.
3. Sönmez, V., Öğretim Ilke ve Yöntemleri, Anı Yayıncılık, 2011
4. Literature review

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecturing, discussion, active learning methods, group study

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 STT TERM WORK (SEMESTER)
3 FINS FINAL EXAM
4 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + STT * 0.10 + FINS * 0.60
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + RST * 0.60

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

rabia.tanel@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 1 13
Preparation for midterm exam 4 1 4
Preparation for final exam 7 1 7
Preparing assignments 1 3 3
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 57

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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