The AP Physics courses were redesigned to provide students with enduring understandings to support future advanced course work in the sciences.
Through inquiry-based learning, students will develop critical thinking and reasoning skills as defined by the AP Science Practices.
AP inquiry instruction incorporates any teaching method that encourages students to construct and/or discover knowledge with an understanding of how scientists study the natural world.
Inquiry teaching expands beyond investigations and experiments to include classroom experiences such as scientific model development and revision, and classroom explanation critique and revision.
In the course of the APSI we will discuss effective approaches to implementing Inquiry Instruction through a variety of activities as follows: