Mazur Clip 4

Instructional Themes: Making thinking visible; Peer learning; Questioning, listening and responding; circulating during small group work; illustrating concepts; teaching through problems

Profiled: Eric Mazur, Balkanski Professor of Physics and Applied Physics, teaches "Physics as a Foundation for Science and Engineering" to 60 students at Harvard College.

Clip Length: 5 minutes, 20 seconds (1:11:15-1:16:35)

Clip Context:

• “AP50: Physics as a Foundation for Science and Engineering,” an undergraduate course at Harvard College with 60 students enrolled.
• This course is a yearlong, team- and project-based introduction to physics. In the course, Mazur assigns students to small groups and challenges them to solve real-life problems using physics concepts.
• This clip comes 70 minutes into the 97-minute class session as Mazur checks in with a small group about the problems they have been solving together.