Creative Physics Education

My goal here at Creative Physics is to help students think outside the box and have fun. As a tutor of physics and math at the high school and college levels, I am aware of both common pitfalls and opportunities for extension activities. I have made several resources to help my students understand concepts better, get more practice, and play around with real-world applications. I will be sharing them here! :)

I meet each student where they are at. This often means explaining a topic in a different way or going back to review prerequisite skills. With more advanced students, I can introduce new, creative applications. In all cases, I challenge students to truly understand what we are doing.

My favorite moments are watching students' faces light up as they say "Ohhhh!" and finally get it!

With a Bachelors and Masters in Mechanical Engineering, I understand many applications of physics and math and use these to help my students.

Outside of teaching, I love dancing and arts and crafts like sewing, knitting, and crocheting. I sometimes incorporate these into teaching physics and math because they provide great, fun real world applications. (Dance: forces, torque, angular momentum; sewing: thinking in 3D, geometry nets; knitting/crochet: polar vs. rectangular coordinates, counting, skip counting, and multiplication for younger students, surface area and volume, slope (increase/decrease).) I believe there are applications of physics and math all around us, and harnessing those can make these subjects more understandable, relatable, and fun. I have been tutoring physics at the high school and college levels for three years. I have been tutoring math at the kindergarten through college levels for two years. I have also tutored students in reading at the primary school level, taught environmental science in a second grade classroom, and taught environmental science at an outdoor nature camp to 5-14 year olds. Additionally, I've taught classes I created from scratch on solutions to climate change and on emotional intelligence to high schoolers.