(pm) FCI pretesting, then FCI overview.

History: Naive Beliefs about Physics and Education

Comfort level checklist: Spreadsheet, Graphical Analysis, interface, probes, word processing.

Focus group: course expectations

Readings: Mestre, "Learning & Instruction in Pre-College Physical Science", Graphical Methods (unit I)

(pm) Unit I: Scientific Thinking in Experimental Settings. Pendulum lab, evaluation of data, lab report format, grading of lab notebook

Readings: McDermott, "Guest Comment: How we teach…", unit I materials

(pm) Unit II: Particle with Constant Velocity. Battery-powered vehicle lab, Excel guide, spreadsheet to aid data handling, import table to Graphical Analysis

Reading: Arons, Ch. 1 (special attention: sections 8, 9, 11, 12); unit II materials.

Review teacher notes to unit I. Work through and workbook worksheet #1

(pm) Worksheets/presentations, Introduction to Conceptual Kinematics Tutorial, PAS materials. Discuss how to organize or strengthen local physics alliance (LPA).

Readings: Hake, "Socratic Pedagogy in the...", Arons 2.1-2.6

(pm), Unit II lesson plan, test 2, turn in lab books (paradigm labs I & II)

Reading: Arons 2.7-11; unit III materials.

(pm) Post-lab extension: instantaneous velocity (using TI and computer), acceleration, motion maps, deployment worksheet/whiteboard.

Reading: Arons 2.12, 2.20; Hammer: "Two approaches to learning physics"

(pm) Free fall w/ picket fence, World-in-Motion, wrap up unit III materials, test. Take/review "Test of Understanding Graphing-Kinematics" (TUG-K)

Reading: Beichner, "Testing student interpretation of kinematics graphs." Unit IV materials.

(pm) The normal force demo, deployment worksheets, lab write-up, more on Graphs and Tracks

Reading: Minstrell, "Explaining the ‘at rest’ condition…"; Arons 3.1-4, 3.12-13

(pm) Unit V: CDP Model-force and acceleration. Weight vs. mass lab, lab write-up, modified Atwood’s machine lab (compare different equipment)

Reading: Hestenes, Wells, Swackhamer: "A Modeling Method for High School Physics Instruction". Unit V materials.

(pm) Post-lab extension: derivation of Newton 2, lab write-up (turn in lab books)

Reading: Arons 3.5-9

(pm) Whiteboard critiques cont., deployment worksheets/whiteboard, Unit V test.

Focus group: mid-course evaluation

Reading: Rex Rice: Role of lab practica. Unit VI materials.

(pm) Post-lab discussion of projectile motion lab, Opus worksheet. Discuss school board presentation and/or school in-service.

Reading: Arons 4.1-5. Unit VII materials.

(pm) Energy analogies, energy schema and flow diagrams, energy bar graphs, deployment worksheets. Concepts of work and elastic potential energy.

Reading: Arons 5.6-11

(pm) Further discussion of working/heating as means of changing internal energy of system

Reading: Hestenes: "Modeling Methodology For Physics Teaching"

(pm) Unit VIII: Central Force Model. Uniform circular motion lab, collect/analyze data; further use of spreadsheets

Reading Unit VIII materials; (optional): Arons 3.15-24.

(pm) Whiteboard presentations, post-lab, more deployment exercises. Presentation of in-depth questions by teams (if required). Post-testing: Force Concept Inventory. Turn in lab books.

Reading: Hestenes, Wells, Swackhamer, "Force Concept Inventory"

(pm) Circular motion lab practicum. Alternative testing methods, formal reasoning tests. How to use Netscape to access materials on server during year. Focus group: final course evaluation.

Unit IX: Impulsive Force Model. Conservation of linear momentum lab, collect data, whiteboard preparation.

(pm) w/b lab results, additional explorations. Discuss school inservices. Schedule visitation.

(pm) Discuss LPAs. Look at second semester materials with modeling approach.