Physics

Internet4classrooms: K-12 Science (click on area) -- just a lot of internet resources, well laid out for quick use by teachers

Animated Applets/Physlets
            Animations (generally with explanatory text and often interactive) to illustrate basic ideas and principles in physics

High School Physics Tutorial (the Physics Classroom) – Mechanics, waves, and optics.  A complete polished online high school physics course with text, graphics and animations, and graphing practice,

The Physics Classroom (Glenbrook High School) – similar to above, but packaged differently. But also includes static electricity and special relativity.

EDinfomatics - Physics  – Incredible listing of electronic resources of all types
            Teaching Resources
            Kids and Teens in school resources

Physical Sciences Resource Center (American Association of Physics Teachers)
            Lots of simple projects and demos, questions, adaptable to lesson plans by topic

MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching) - Physics
            A goldmine with lots of links and search engine!

Flinn Scientific physics – offers links to activities, teacher resources, and FAQs

Dr. Allan’s [Pringle] Teacher Workshop Resources
            Several different workshop resources for primary and secondary school teachers

Dr. Ron’s [Bieniek] Teacher Workshop Resources
            Link to the main page of this site

Access Excellence – physics topics
            Several annotated websites for resources

Physics 2000 (University of Colorado) – topics in modern physics topics presented in a very impressive, concise, popular way accessible to secondary school and college students.  Science Trek is the most basic site with animations.  This is a WINNER.

Physics World Educational Resources – categorized resources including interactive experiments
            Electronic online physics textbooks – a whole lot of textbooks for free!

PhysicsEd:  Physics Education Resources (from Richard Felder)
            Many organized annotated links to electronic resources

 

Physics Education Group (University of Maryland)
            Activity-Based Thinking Problems: Problems created for the ABP Project to help build students' qualitative understanding of physics and to link it with quantitative problem solving.
            Estimation Problems: A collection of estimation problems ranging from Fermi questions to apparatus design problems.
            Group-learning tutorials
            Thinking Questions (Question of the Week):   Very interesting questions for students (and teachers) with demo and answers to probe fundamental understanding.  Very useful.

HyperPhysics (Rod Nave, Georgia State University) – encyclopedic exposition of all topics in physics pursued by text, graphics, and hypertext links.  Good for find info and explanations.

Physicsweb (physics news, jobs and resources from Institute of Physics)
            What a place to find things!

K-8/12 Science Education Websites (American Physical Society)

Home page Science Consortium

Home page LEAD Program