A guided inquiry based teaching and learning sequence on oscillations based on experiments and data-logging techniques

Abstract

We present here a teaching and learning sequence on oscillations entirely based on experiments and data logging techniques. The sequence has been proposed to three different groups of students during curricular and extracurricular lessons. The purpose of this paper is to discuss a way to introduce upper secondary school students to complicated topics, such as those of coupled oscillations, avoiding the use of too much mathematics and calculus, but with an intense use of data logging techniques