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Some Thoughts on Teaching and Learning About Energy from Third Grade to College<\/strong> Energy is arguably the single most important concept in physics, but the educational system does a stunningly ineffective job of enabling students to understand it or use it meaningfully. I will discuss some of the reasons why energy is particularly challenging subject and some of the ways current practice exacerbates the problem, and put forward some ideas for a consistent perspective that could help across a wide range of ages, from elementary school to introductory college physics.<\/p>","excerpt":"","slug":"colloquium-dr-roger-tobin","image":false,"all_day":false,"start_date":"2014-09-12 14:45:00","start_date_details":{"year":"2014","month":"09","day":"12","hour":"14","minutes":"45","seconds":"00"},"end_date":"2014-09-12 16:00:00","end_date_details":{"year":"2014","month":"09","day":"12","hour":"16","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"utc_start_date":"2014-09-12 19:45:00","utc_start_date_details":{"year":"2014","month":"09","day":"12","hour":"19","minutes":"45","seconds":"00"},"utc_end_date":"2014-09-12 21:00:00","utc_end_date_details":{"year":"2014","month":"09","day":"12","hour":"21","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"timezone":"America\/Chicago","timezone_abbr":"CDT","cost":"","cost_details":{"currency_symbol":"$","currency_code":"","currency_position":"prefix","values":[]},"website":"","show_map":true,"show_map_link":true,"hide_from_listings":false,"sticky":false,"featured":false,"categories":[{"name":"Physics Colloquia","slug":"physics-colloquia","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":53,"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","description":"","parent":0,"count":194,"filter":"raw","id":58,"urls":{"self":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/categories\/58","collection":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/categories"}}],"tags":[],"venue":{"id":1600,"author":"28","status":"publish","date":"2014-10-03 08:39:08","date_utc":"2014-10-03 13:39:08","modified":"2014-10-03 08:39:08","modified_utc":"2014-10-03 13:39:08","url":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/physics\/venue\/physics-135-uw-milwaukee\/","venue":"Physics 135 – UW-Milwaukee","slug":"physics-135-uw-milwaukee","address":"1900 E Kenwood Blvd","city":"Milwaukee","state":"WI","zip":"53211","stateprovince":"WI","geo_lat":43.075420800000003,"geo_lng":-87.886050999999995,"json_ld":{"@type":"Place","name":"Physics 135 – UW-Milwaukee","description":"","url":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/physics\/venue\/physics-135-uw-milwaukee\/","address":{"@type":"PostalAddress","streetAddress":"1900 E Kenwood Blvd","addressLocality":"Milwaukee","addressRegion":"WI","postalCode":"53211"},"geo":{"@type":"GeoCoordinates","latitude":43.075420800000003,"longitude":-87.886050999999995},"telephone":"","sameAs":""},"show_map":true,"show_map_link":true,"global_id":"uwm.edu\/physics?id=1600","global_id_lineage":["uwm.edu\/physics?id=1600"]},"organizer":[{"id":1554,"author":"28","status":"publish","date":"2014-10-01 14:33:43","date_utc":"2014-10-01 19:33:43","modified":"2014-10-01 14:33:43","modified_utc":"2014-10-01 19:33:43","url":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/physics\/organizer\/physics-colloquia\/","organizer":"Physics Colloquia","slug":"physics-colloquia","json_ld":{"@type":"Person","name":"Physics Colloquia","description":"","url":"","telephone":"","email":"","sameAs":""},"global_id":"uwm.edu\/physics?id=1554","global_id_lineage":["uwm.edu\/physics?id=1554"]}],"custom_fields":[],"json_ld":{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Event","name":"Colloquium: Dr. Roger Tobin","description":"<p>The Physics department colloquia are usually on Friday afternoons at 3 pm in Room 135. Coffee and cookies are served at 2:45 pm in the same room. Anyone is welcome. Some Thoughts on Teaching and Learning About Energy from Third …<\/p>\\n","url":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/physics\/event\/colloquium-dr-roger-tobin\/","eventAttendanceMode":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OfflineEventAttendanceMode","eventStatus":"https:\/\/schema.org\/EventScheduled","startDate":"2014-09-12T14:45:00-05:00","endDate":"2014-09-12T16:00:00-05:00","location":{"@type":"Place","name":"Physics 135 – UW-Milwaukee","description":"","url":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/physics\/venue\/physics-135-uw-milwaukee\/","address":{"@type":"PostalAddress","streetAddress":"1900 E Kenwood Blvd","addressLocality":"Milwaukee","addressRegion":"WI","postalCode":"53211"},"geo":{"@type":"GeoCoordinates","latitude":43.075420800000003,"longitude":-87.886050999999995},"telephone":"","sameAs":""},"organizer":{"@type":"Person","name":"Physics Colloquia","description":"","url":"","telephone":"","email":"","sameAs":""},"performer":"Organization"},"is_virtual":false,"virtual_url":null,"virtual_video_source":""}
\nDr. Roger Tobin<\/strong>, Professor and Chair, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Tufts University
\nPhysics – Room 135<\/p>\n