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Exploring Physics
The Exploring Physics app, is an interactive app for teaching high school physics (Physics First), physical science or conceptual physics classes. The app works as a workbook, lab book and textbook all in one! Students can use text, drawings, graphs, tables to record their work. The curriculum combines hands-on activities with a discussion-based pedagogy (modeling) and can be used for 8th grade through early college.
This curriculum app has 8 units (similar to chapters in a book). The curriculum was written in collaboration by prof. Meera Chandrasekhar (first author on units 1-4) and Dorina Kosztin (first author units 5-8). This app is used by several teachers (nation wide) in their 9th grade physics classrooms.
For more information about the app, see Exploring Physics website.
The Exploring Physics Curriculum App was supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation, NSF DUE 0928924.
For students, the app provides:
Laboratory exercises
Reading pages
Tutorial problems (see example on the left)
Practice problems
Text, drawing and graphing tools
For teachers, the app provides:
Big Ideas
Storyline
Common Misconceptions
Materials lists
Alignment to national and state standards
Teacher Pages for each activity
Movies on setting up labs
Tools for grading student work
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