Self-help books: a little gem!
Found this one, when looking through an educational publishing catalogue - Getting it to work: Physics equipment for high school. (1996). The description reads “the manual provides information on how to use selected pieces of equipment, hints on how to overcome commonly identified problems in their use and ideas for innovative teaching strategies using the equipment in the classroom.
I am ’staggered’, to say the least. After 16 years of teaching high school science, I’d always thought that oscilloscopes etc weren’t actually supposed to work; that they were merely techno-boffin props to lend a vague air of authenticity to lab practicals …
