Physical Simulation Related Exercises for the Education in the STEM Field - Approaches Based on the Physolator Framework

This paper presents different kinds of approaches towards using physical simulation based exercises for early teaching of STEM topics at school. The approaches presented in this paper are based on the Physolator physics simulation framework. This paper analyzes to which degree these approaches can be used to meet given teaching goals. Introduction 1 Teaching Physics and Physical Simulation Eisenbiegler et al. Physical Simulation Related Exercises for the Education in the STEM Field 46 SNE 27(1) – 3/2017 EN 2 The Physolator Framework Figure 1: The Physolator Framework. Eisenbiegler et al. Physical Simulation Related Exercises for the Education in the STEM Field SNE 27(1) – 3/2017 47 E N 2.1 Category 1: Experimentation with a given physical system