Integrating Smartphone And Hands-On Activities To Real Experiments In Physics

Given the spectacular technological developments in recent years, teaching high school physics should be tailored to generate the competencies required by nowadays labor market. In order to achieve the learning objectives of a modern high school physics lessons, chalk and board are no longer adequate alternatives. Effective teaching methods and strategies involve hands-on science activities, as well as integrated content implemented using today's technological developments. The real physics experiments presented in this paper suggest a change in the way of teaching some physics lessons by using smartphone applications (Apps): teaching the light absorption (Beer-Lambert's law) and Color Detect using the Phyphox App (Physical Phone Experiment), as well as determining the acceleration in free fall circumstances by means of Phyphox App, too. This manner of tackling a physics lesson emphasizes the integrated content approach, as knowledge of physics, mathematics and computing is simultaneously needed in order to confront these experiments.yyy