Courses
Physics 2
Coming soon
AGENDA
Tuesday
- Introductions
- AP Equity and Access Policy
- Content that needs to be covered for AP Physics 2.
- Concept Outline links the
- Big Ideas (There are 7 Big Ideas which apply to Physics 2)
- Enduring Understandings – What the students must retain.
- Essential Knowledge that will support the Enduring Understandings
- Science Practices that articulate what the student should know and be able to do.
- Learning Objectives – pairs the Essential Knowledge to the Science Practices
- Lunch
- Pacing guide for Physics 2
- Syllabus development for Physics 2 (on going during the week.)
- Example Mini Lesson and Mapping the Lesson to the Curriculum Framework.
- Participants will work in groups to create a mini-lesson based on an assigned task. These will be shared with all the other participants.
Wednesday
- What will be tested on the AP Physics 2 Exam will illustrate how the Learning Objectives will be assessed.
- Building Student’s Critical Thinking Skills to Answer the Multiple-Choice and Free Response Section of the New Test.
- Participants will learn strategies for incorporating reasoning tasks that aid their students in building deeper conceptual understandings of the basic physics concepts
- In groups, participants will develop several types of reasoning tasks that they can use in their classrooms These activities will be shared with the group. (Bring your cell phones to record the activities that are developed during the workshop.)
- Lunch
- The new AP Physics 2 has expanded the content that students will need. Center-of-mass, time dilation and length contraction (Qualitative treatment only.)
- Probability will be included in the new exam in terms of thermodynamics and quantum mechanical systems.
- We will do a laboratory experiment in the afternoon session as an inquiry lab and then modify and adapt it for the new Physics 2 format.
- Continue with Building Student’s Critical Thinking Skills.
Thursday
- We will do another laboratory experiment in the morning session as an inquiry lab and then modify and adapt for the new Physics 2 format as we did on Wednesday.
- (Bring a laboratory experiment that works very well with your students. You will adapt it in the new format of the lab questions and share with the others on Friday.)
- Lunch
- Continue with Syllabus development and Building Student’s Critical Thinking Skills.
- Special Topics as needed
- Writing Multiple Choice and Free Response Questions based on the Learning Objectives.
- Group work in developing MC and Free Response Questions that will be shared with the entire group on Friday.
Friday
- Review of Multiple Choice Questions from the old AP B Physics released tests and modification of them into the new format to build your new question bank.
- Continued work as needed on Friday afternoon presentations and/or syllabus development.
- Lunch
- Presentations
- Downloads (Bring your jump drives)
- Paper Work
“Interaction with other teachers extremely valuable, lab experiences were excellent.”
–Past Client
Instructor:
Patricia Zober
Patricia J. Zober has over 35 years of experience teaching AP Physics at Ringgold High School. She is the district K-12 science curriculum coordinator, an AP physics consultant with the College Board, presenter of AP Physics workshops, and a former AP Physics Grader. She also presents workshops for Vertical Teams in Science for the College Board. Patricia is a physics consultant to the Holt, Rinehart, and Winston Publishing Company, Prentice Hall, and Freeman; she has served on the PRAXIS validation Committee for the State of Pennsylvania. Patricia has co-authored a series of physics web pages, a physics laboratory manual, and a AP Physics B Examination Book to accompany College Physics, 7th and 8th ed, by Serway, Vuille, and Faughn.