Performance Objectives:
The Best Physics Web Sites (compiled by Rebecca E. Wenning, last updated summer 2006)
High School Physics Resources (PowerPoint presentation)
Survey of High School Physics Texts
Low-Cost Physics Activities (NEW December 21, 2005)
Compadre Webpage - ComPADRE is a collaboration between AAPT, AIP, APS, AAS, and the SPS, funded in part by the NSF/NSDL. It provides some good resource sections for high school physics teachers. Check out especially The Physics Front which provides support and teaching resources for high school teachers of physics, especially new and crossover teachers.
Advanced Placement Physics Courses
CIESE Online Classroom Projects (Interdisciplinary Internet Projects in Cooperation with Others)
Near-free Materials for your Classroom
Sample High School Physics Course Syllabus
Sample Student Information Sheet
Basic Attributes of a Model Physics Classroom
The Amusement Park Physics CPB/Annenberg Website
Annenberg/CPB Learner.org Video on demand, including The Mechanical Universe.
SMILE - This website contains a collection of almost 200 single concept lessons. These lessons may be freely copied and used in a classroom but they remain the copyright property of the author(s) and the directors of the SMILE program. The Physics lessons are divided into the following categories: Matter, Mechanics, Fluids, Electricity & Magnetism, Waves, Sound and Optics, and Miscellaneous. A service of IIT and a Chicago area physics alliance.
Selected High School Curricula:
American Association of Physics Teachers, Powerful Ideas in Physical Science, Vol. I-IV. College Park, MD: Author (1995)
Eisenkraft, A. Active Physics, AAPT (1994)
Haber-Schaim, U., Dodge, J. H., Gardner, R., & Shore, E. PSSC Physics
Laws, P, et al., Workshop Physics Activity Guide, Wiley, NY (1997)
Leonard, W. J., R. J. Dufresne, W. J. Gerace, & J. P. Mestre, Minds on Physics, Activities and Reader, Kendall/Hunt, Dubuque, IA, (1999)
Mazur, E., Peer Instruction: A User's Manual, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall (1997)
http://mazur-www.harvard.edu/education/educationmenu.htmlMcDermott, L. C. (Physics Education Group at the University of Washington), Physics by Inquiry, Vols. I and II, New York, NY: Wiley, New York (1996)
McDermott L. C. (Physics Education Group at the University of Washington), Tutorials in Introductory Physics and Homework Manual, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall (1998)
Sokoloff, D.R, Thornton, R.K., & Laws, P.W. Real-Time Physics, New York, NY: Wiley (1999)
Van Heuvelen, A. ActivPhysics: An Interactive Multimedia CD, Addison Wesley. Part I (1997)/Part II (January 1999).
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