The Feynman Lectures on Physics (Volume I)

This photo was taken from the Richard Feynman wiki page, which has a section on his pedagogy, where it mentions how:

“In April 1966, Feynman delivered an address to the National Science Teachers Association, in which he suggested how students could be made to think like scientists, be open-minded, curious, and especially, to doubt.”

• Caltech holds the rights, but the lectures are freely available to read online.
• Chapter 1 directly relates to a number of SU topics from mostly Stage 1 SACE.
• Chapters 2 and 3 have alot of material that would be great for SIS in a more general sense.
• However I think the best use of this resource would be as an exemplar of thoughtful, concise, and eloquent teaching (writing), and I would use it mostly as inspiration for pedagogy, style and design of teaching content.

An example: Feynman includes caveats with his figures and explanations, Chapter 1 includes some nice examples of this that could either be used vertbatim or used as inspiration for doing something similar:

• Figures 1-1 and 1-2 are cute examples of accurate details being included helping understanding.
• Figure 1-7 is a nice example of how to introduce a new idea through such caveats.

Another example: “the sole test of the validity of any idea is experiment”:

• Particularly if students are interested in history, could have a discovery project for them to research Feynman, could have them read my favorite quote from Chapter 2.
• One could design a SIS activity around the concept discussed above — challenging the fundamental assumptions of science.

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