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Classroom Resources: Digital resources for grade 11 and 12 physics
Video-based Problem Solving Challenges: Rich problem solving tasks involving physical observations
Classroom Videos: Watch physics lessons and assessments in action!
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Handbooks: The daily investigations students complete. We print out one package per student for each unit.
Course Guide Powerpoints: These are the Powerpoint slides we use with each lesson. They contain lots of helpful visuals, videos, pictures of the equipment, and various teacher and student tips for each lesson.
Tests and Quizzes: Includes my solutions.
Depending on your interest and teaching goals, you can use these resources in different ways.
Run Your Own Inquiry-based Physics Course: You will find almost everything you need to run a full, lecture-free physics course that is rich in scientific exploration and will train students in the skills they need for any post-secondary program. All you have to do is gather the equipment, print the handbooks for students, set up students in groups, and have fun doing physics!
Build Your Personal Understanding: Use the resources yourself to explore familiar concepts in a fresh, deep way. Read and work through the handbooks and build your personal understanding of the course content. We aren't all experts on every aspect of the course, so there is a good chance you will find helpful explanations and techniques in each unit.
Discover New Experiments and Activities: Explore the different activities and experiments for each unit and find ones to try in your own course.
Replace Your Lesson Notes: You might not be ready to move away from teacher-led lessons; no problem! Use the guided-inquiry investigations as an outline for your teaching notes (the lessons you would deliver) and replace the group work with less formal student discussions and reflection.
Handbook: Contains the daily investigations (lessons) that students work through
Solution Sheets: The standard pages we use to write-up our solutions for motion, force, energy, and special relativity problems
Review Packages: Skill-building sheets to help students bring their basic skills to a grade 12 level
Problem Solving Challenges: Rich problem solving challenges that we use in each unit
Course Guide PowerPoints: Presentations that compliment our daily lessons and include: equipment photos, multiple-choice concept questions, metacognition questions, supplemental images, videos, and examples for lessons
We use instant-feedback quizzes and group work tests in our two courses. We also have a standard practice of allowing students to rewrite tests after they have shown evidence of improvement.
Assessment Videos