Education

An amusing, yet sincere, look at where students go wrong when producing scientific graphs for school, college and degree level work.

A non-profit organization of teachers, educators, and physicists; at Lawrence Berkeley Lab.

A web site devoted to faculty and students using computer simulation techniques as a method of discovery in physics. This is a companion site to a textbook, but provides content from other sources as well.

A project to create well organized, digital collections of high quality educational materials in physics and astronomy. ComPADRE consists of focused collections of materials for specific courses or serving specific constituencies, with connections to a wide range of online digital resources including curricular materials, digital libraries, and online journals, user communities that participate in the development and operation of these collections.

Misunderstood things in physics with simple explanations.

Site dedicated to helping teachers with lessons in physics and astrophysics by giving computer activities that help show how physical models work.

A research project on the use of continuous formative assessment in the high-school physics classroom. The website provides participating teachers with a library of assessment items (carefully constructed questions) to choose from for their classes, and with an associated library of teacher aids which provide help with the pedagogically effective use of the items.

Andes is an intelligent tutoring system which teaches students how to solve physics problems. It provides a complete set of homework problems for an Introductory College Physics course or a high school AP physics course.

The web site provides resources for Teachers, Students and Technicians involved in the study of AS or A2 Level Physics.