Curriculum Materials

Below you'll find links to courseware developed for use by teachers in Modeling Workshops.

Mechanics curriculum - Open to any visitor, this folder contains Teacher Notes, worksheets and readings for the 1st semester mechanics portion of a high school physics course. The quizzes and tests have been removed. The materials are in Portable Document Format. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader (download free from Adobe to view these files.

2nd Semester Physics

models of light - overview
mechanical waves and sound - overview , list of java applets and some wave movies
microscopic E&M - overview and electrostatics movies
Modeling-modified CASTLE - overview

Chemistry Storyline view download`

Participant resources is a password-protected folder containing curriculum materials accessible by Modeling Workshop participants. These materials are available in Microsoft Word and pdf formats. They include:

the complete Mechanics curriculum (updated 5/03)

mechanics for a Physics First course

materials for the 2nd semester portion of a high school physics course; these include

models of light

mechanical waves and sound

microscopic model of E&M

Modeling-modified CASTLE curriculum

materials for one semester of an 8th-9th grade physical science course

materials for a year of modeling in chemistry. (updated frequently)

2nd draft materials for modeling in earth science (Aug 2006)

Special Relativity: a 2-week unit

Excel spreadsheets to analyze the FCI, TUG-K, MBT, CSEM

Lawson "Classroom Test of Scientific Reasoning"

DIRECT (circuits diagnostic); other concept inventories reqested by teachers, if available

Links to resources for hand-held data collection devices and calculators for processing the data.

CASIO resources for the 9850 calculator and EA-100 data collection device

Vernier Software info on the use of TI CBL and calculators

Material in this web site is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant
No. ESI-9353423. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material
are those of the authors and do not necesarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

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This page was last updated on July 5, 2008