The teacher companion to Physics A — Motion, Forces, Momentum and Gravitation (California), the first semester of a full-year, quantitative laboratory physics course for grades 11-12 with Algebra 2 and right-triangle trigonometry as the co-requisite. It is built on the CA NGSS performance expectations HS-PS2-1 to HS-PS2-6 and HS-ETS1-1 to HS-ETS1-4.
Module 1 covers the semester as a whole: the UC A-G area D case and the hands-on lab share, lab safety and equipment management under the CDE Science Safety Handbook, phenomenon-driven teaching in three dimensions with math support that keeps the rigor, and pacing, tools and access. Modules 2-5 take one student unit each: a briefing on what students produce and the misconceptions that arrive every year, a facilitation lesson for the investigation lab, the argumentation lab and the modeling workshop (with a lab report to calibrate on), and a scoring lesson with synthetic design reports at three bands, the errors they contain and the one piece of feedback that moves each.
Every number in the exemplars was recomputed from the same data the student lessons use, so you can score them against the lesson you just taught.
Curriculum
- 5 Sections
- 16 Lessons
- Lifetime
- Module 1: Teaching Physics A4
- Module 2: Unit 1 — Motion in One and Two Dimensions3
- Module 3: Unit 2 — Forces and Newton’s Laws3
- Module 4: Unit 3 — Momentum, Collisions and Crash Safety3
- Module 5: Unit 4 — Gravitation, Circular Motion and Orbits3
Instructor
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