Learning Electromagnetism through a Playful County Fair Game Project (Journal Article)

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Abstract: Project- or problem-based learning (PBL) is a methodology that makes students take an active role in their knowledge construction, improving the learning process. At the same time, PBL help students to develop soft and social skills that are important for their careers and professional lives. In this work, an entertaining game project based on an introductory undergraduate physics course is presented, in which students build an experimental prototype based on a traditional county fair game, “High Striker.” To fulfill the project’s requirements, students need to use mainly electromagnetism concepts such as Biot–Savart law, Ampere’s law, and Faraday’s law; and classical mechanics physics concepts such as energy conservation and collisions.