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Emma Mitchell
@emmaphys.bsky.social
730 followers 220 following 90 posts
Physics teacher, #iTeachPhysics, #ModPhys, #eduSky, she/her, Ph.D
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Jeremy Secaur @secaurphysics.bsky.social · Aug 13
Hey there physics 🎢🍎 teacher friends! If you teach AP physics 2 or C E&M or have an Electricity & Magnetism component to your intro class, and want some well-tested strategies & moves for teaching E&M, Kris Newton and I are running a weekly online #modphys E&M class for teachers
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Michael Lerner @lernerphysics.bsky.social · Aug 13
I am doing a #teach180 blog now, in concert with @barnettdreyfuss.bsky.social. Days -4 & -3 are about our professional days. lerner180.posthaven.com/day-4-convoc... and lerner180.posthaven.com/day-3-profes.... Shout out to @afreeparticle.com for the link hub template.
Day -3: Professional Development
Today was some professional development. We had some good PD led by Facing History and Ourselves. In the afternoon, we had a staff meeting, where a link hub I maintain that I fully stole from...
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Bree Barnett Dreyfuss @barnettdreyfuss.bsky.social · Aug 8
@lernerphysics.bsky.social reminded me how great daily reflection can be for teaching when he facilitated the Q&A after my award. I hope to move to a blog format but #Teach180 posts here will do for a start! 🧪🎢
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Emma Mitchell @emmaphys.bsky.social · Aug 7
Our students are *awesome*, our faculty is friendly and collaborative, and our school is a warm and tight-knit community. Please pass on to anyone who might be interested! #eduSky #teacher
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Emma Mitchell @emmaphys.bsky.social · Aug 7
Teachers have a lot of autonomy at my school and we have flexibility in teaching project-based, phenomenon-based, Modeling-based, incorporating engineering, etc. There is also flexibility in teaching both Middle School and Upper School Science, depending on your interests.
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Emma Mitchell @emmaphys.bsky.social · Aug 7
My school is looking for a Middle School Science/STEAM teacher for this coming Fall! We are a small, independent, all-girls boarding/day school (grades 6-12) in Simsbury, CT. We have faculty housing available. I am the Dept. Chair; reach out if interested!
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Middle School Science/STEAM Faculty - The Ethel Walker School
Middle School Science/STEAM Faculty Status: Full-Time, ExemptReports To: Assistant Head for Faculty and Academic Affairs and Department ChairStart Date: August 2025 The Ethel Walker Middle School seek...
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Emma Mitchell @emmaphys.bsky.social · Jan 7
I do an activity where I put this whole thing on a scale, then have students draw force diagrams and predict whether the scale reading will change when the floating globe is removed.
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Dan Hosey @danhosey.bsky.social · Jan 6
I forgot I previously made this SHM @desmos.com comparing UCM, pendulum, and mass on a spring side by side until I was getting ready for class this evening. #iTeachPhysics www.desmos.com/calculator/e...
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Melissa Girmscheid @mrsgphysics.bsky.social · Dec 28
Join Jess Dykes and me this January for a course on integrating physics Modeling and computational thinking. #modphys #iteachphysics #cmpfb
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Nick Watkins @pnwphysics.bsky.social · Dec 19
Built on a fluids unit I made during a modeling workshop with @secaurphysics.bsky.social and @emmaphys.bsky.social phenomena->paradigm lab->model->test model->break model #iteachphysics 🎢 #ModPhys
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Emma Mitchell @emmaphys.bsky.social · Dec 19
This is so cool!
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Joe Cossette @cossettej.bsky.social · Dec 14
Sometimes you make something just to prove that you can. Behold, a 3D printed physical model of double slit wave interactions! 😅 #iteachphysics 🎢
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Emma Mitchell @emmaphys.bsky.social · Dec 15
Pinning this to remind myself to do it with my class! 📌
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Ben Wildeboer @willyb.bsky.social · Dec 14
Finding saved twitter links and crossing fingers the link works until I can save the info. #iTeachPhysics

Today, @danhosey.bsky.social's lab to find µ from v & Δx:
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Emma Mitchell @emmaphys.bsky.social · Dec 12
I know, I’m loving being able to use force as an independent variable in the N2L lab so easily!
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Emma Mitchell @emmaphys.bsky.social · Dec 12
I love the ability of the Vernier fan cart brackets to hold multiple fans. Such a game-changer!
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Kelly O'Shea @kellyoshea.bsky.social · Dec 11
Unbalanced Forces problem solving stations this week in 10th grade Physics. A favorite day every year! #iteachphysics #modphys #scichat
Instructions written on the whiteboard. 0) Identify the system. 1) Draw & annotate relevant physics diagrams: FBD & VAD, v-t graph. 2) Make indicated measurements. 3) Add measured values to your diagrams. 4) Use annotated diagrams to solve. 5) Use instructions to check your solution. --> Troubleshoot as needed. 6) High five! (optional) A station with a triple-fan cart, track, and instructions. A station with a ramp, cart, spring scale, motion detector, and instructions. A station with two instruction cards and a force sensor.
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kruidenier physics @kruidenier.bsky.social · Dec 12
Final unbalanced force lab for my honors physics class- 1) derive an expression for the kinetic friction coefficient of socks on tile using only times and distances. 2) Take data and numerically solve. Required whimsy makes this a favorite activity! Mass independence always stuns. #iTeachPhysics 🎢
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Emma Mitchell @emmaphys.bsky.social · Dec 8
Sure :)
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Emma Mitchell @emmaphys.bsky.social · Dec 7
My 9th graders find them extremely fun. But they’re basically big middle schoolers who find pretty much everything extremely fun. Except for things that are extremely not fun.
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Emma Mitchell @emmaphys.bsky.social · Dec 7
Probably a difference between 9th and 11th grade! We focus on motion maps much less in my 11th/12th-grade class. Students are much more comfortable with graphs by then.
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Emma Mitchell @emmaphys.bsky.social · Dec 7
🤣 It’s a great transition sequence!
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Emma Mitchell @emmaphys.bsky.social · Dec 7
100%. And motion maps really help them to understand graphs better, the way we use them to physically build a graph for the first time. Saw that for the first time in the #ModPhys CMPF-B workshop with the great @mrsgphysics.bsky.social! Works so well for 9th graders.
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Emma Mitchell @emmaphys.bsky.social · Dec 7
of the ball’s motion on the ramp. From those motion maps, they made a P-t graph. And then they placed a mini-photogate at each motion map dot, in turn, to collect data for a V-t graph. So motion maps are our touchpoint. For my higher-level classes (>9th), they can use graphs right away. (3/3)
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