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I don't seek out any kind of compensation for sharing these books and this equipment with you. I try to share what I think has been most useful to me, and what will be most useful to others. In the interest of full disclosure, I have received some modest gifts from companies I have sought out with a request for help during AP Summer Institutes. Pasco has given me some modest pieces of equipment, a pair of carts, a plastic track, and a temperature sensor, and Vernier has given me a couple of free books.
APPS
camscanner (turns your device into a scanner)
Vernier Video Physics (only for iOS)
Vernier Graphical Analysis (for iPad)
Theodolite (measure angles and distances using iPhone)
Books
==>>Essential for AP 1 and 2 Teachers<<==
Ranking Task Exercises in Physics
Newtonian TIPERS (Tasks Inspired by Physics Education Research) you can buy this here on amazon
E&M TIPERS (Tasks Inspired by Physics Education Research)
TIPERS Sensemaking Tasks (if you're only going to buy one, then buy this one)
Active Learning Guide (intended to go with Etkina text, likely useful to anyone teaching P1 or P2)
***Other useful books continue below***
Teaching Physics for the First Time (highly recommended for new teachers)
Bob Morse Electrostatics Activities (Poor Man's "Teaching about Electrostatics")
Uncovering Student Ideas (Page Keeley)
Trophy Wives Don't Need Advanced Physics
Physics, The Human Adventure (the history of physics, in one accessible volume)
Mindset (Carol Dweck)
Turning the World Inside Out and Why Toast Lands Jelly-side Down? (Robert Ehrlich)
Norton Trade Paperbacks, Physics and Astronomy
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Knight Jones Field College Physics
Etkina Van Heuvelen Gentile College Physics
OpenStax College Physics (free)
OERCommons (Open Source educational resources, like OpenStax book listed above)
Keep a search on for used textbooks at ABEBooks
Get Mastering Physics Access! Request Pearson Mastering Physics access
Classroom Portals/Website Builders
College Board
create your AP Professional Login
Communication
Twiddla (request free pro account)
Demos
Electronics Parts cheap
1000bulbs (mostly bulbs and lighting, great prices and fast shipping)
Electrostatics
a site with some of Robert Morse's electrostatics activities
Bob Morse's Benjamin Franklin is My Lab Partner project
Equipment
Neon Bulbs (from Jameco) (fun for electrostatics - Charge flows from "high to glow")
CASTLE Kits (and download curriculum for free)
Wonder Power or Force Field Magnets
Arbor Scientific (lots of fun stuff, constant velocity dune buggies, wave springs)
Sci-Supply (inexpensive physics equipment, including $10 genecons)
Poppers/Bouncing Disk Toy) are here and at amazon and available in large quantity with imprint at places like this.
-Warning- In recent years the quality of the toys has gone downhill and they sometimes break on the first class.
Cynmar (cheap wave spring sets)
McMaster-Carr (springs, bolts, hardware in great variety)
Inertial Balance (a Physics 1 topic)
Online Homework
UTexas Quest (not free, but a great deal)
Andes Physics Tutor (unique, and Free)
LON-CAPA (free, but not for the faint of heart when it comes to technology)
Web Portals for Physics Teaching Ideas
ThePhysicsFront.org - Search by activity, assessment, labs or lesson plans
Federal Resources for Educational Excellence: Physics
comPADRE (resources for physics and astronomy education at the college level)
Wikis
secure pgp (the mother lode)
Probeware
TI SmartView Software (calculator emulator)
Video Analysis
Video in Logger Pro (software from vernier.com, very reasonably priced)
Capstone (Pasco's data acquisition and analysis software, also does Video Analysi)
Clickers
Socrative (currently free)
Interactive Learning Toolkit (ConcepTests)
Workshops
Modeling Workshops (on the American Modeling Teachers Association website - AMTA)
Youtubers
Smarter Every Day
Veritasium
Minute Physics
Vihart
APlusPhysics
Sixty Symbols
Flipping Physics
Physics-related Twitter
@fnoschese (Frank Noschese also follow his blog; Frank also writes a lot about Standards-Based Grading or SBG)
@kellyoshea (Kelly O'Shea also has a great blog; Kelly also has SBG resources on her site)
@BadAstronomer (Phil Plait also has an excellent blog)
@rjallain (Rhett Allain has another blog you need to read)
@phyzman (Dean Baird blogs too)
@PheTSims
@VernierST
@CERN
Useful sites
American Association of Physics Teachers (aapt)
eMentor free help for inexperienced physics teachers
modeling website (old)
comPADRE (resources for physics and astronomy education)
Physics Front (subset of comPADRE for pre-college teachers)
Open Courseware (free access to MIT courses)
Cutnell and Johnson Interactive Learning Ware
Team Eclipse (PBL)
NASA eClips (short educational videos for free)
Adopt-a-Physicist (promote physics-related careers)
ProblemAttic (free, build tests, quizzes, from published tests like the NY Regents' test)
download (or watch) free science videos, in particular PSSC Frames of Reference and PSSC Coulomb's Law at www.archive.org
EdX (free online courses - similar to MIT OpenCourseWare, but live)
Planboard (lesson planning - currently free!)
Texas Instruments nSpire Tutorials
Simulations
The Physics Aviary (teacher made site with virtual labs - highly recommended)
Sounds Amazing, U Salford (waves and sound)
TEAL at MIT (Electrostatics)
McGraw-Hill Interactives (JAVA only, unfortunately)
Favorite Software
Inkscape (free!)
Planbook (is really useful and very reasonably priced, but tech support and development has lagged recently)
Planboard (still developing, but seems pretty good)
This is just cool
Feynman lecture (Character of Physical Law)
Technology Entertainment Design
ThinkGeek.com (okay, so it's geeky, but isn't that cool?)
Internet Archive (download copyright-free movies, music, other resources, several PSSC old-school physics movies on here)
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