A Series of Teaching Aids and New Discourse on the Complete Topic

Abstract

Reconstructing a more complete and practical theoretical framework for certain important topics that are flawed in textbooks or common science education activities—such as optical imaging, power generation, heat engines, wind power, wave power, thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and even calculus—developing a series of teaching aids to illustrate key points of each topic through experiments, and writing a specialized book that organizes the complete subject with an emphasis on both experiments and theory, to form what is called "teaching resources." By using these teaching resources, learners can easily yet clearly grasp the entire subject and apply the knowledge they have acquired to solve real-world problems or conduct further research. This article uses the interdisciplinary “teaching resources for heat engines” as an example to illustrate the features and content of such teaching resources.