Teaching is a tremendous rush. The only thing cooler than making a discovery is watching someone you're teaching make a discovery. -Erin Lavik-Note: My Advanced Placement Physics materials have now been published with a teacher's guide, lesson plans and other good stuff. That website presently works with Internet Explorer and Opera V, but not with Netscape. I trust that the technical staff at Teaching-Point will solve that problem soon.
The Amity physics worksheets were developed over a period of 33 years with the intention of presenting an entire high school physics curriculum in the form of socratic questioning. We found that asking the right questions at the right times and providing simple lab equipment such as strings, pulleys, rulers, carts, ramps, wires, flashlight bulbs, voltmeters, ammeters, etc. enable students to discover virtually all of the principles and laws of high-school physics for themselves. Problem-solving skills are developed at the same time. The intended pace is one page per day. Extra-help pages (labeled "R") are available for slower classes, and enrichment pages (labeled "b") are for honors-level students.
Over the years I kept track of what worked and what didn't, continually revising and improving the worksheets until my retirement in 2000. The final versions were in Clarisworks, with both MacIntosh and PC versions. I have attempted to convert them to Word 97, but I find that it takes about half an hour for each page; I may never finish that project. Converting to html is even more difficult, at least for me. Converting them to Adobe pdf files is much quicker and easier, so that's what I am making available here. If your computer does not already have Acrobat Reader it can be downloaded free from Adobe: Acrobat Reader
I find that Internet Explorer seems to work well for viewing these worksheets. Netscape always fails to open a pdf file on the first try, but then works well after that; you have to close the window that doesn't work and then re-load the file that you want to open. The browser called "Opera 5" does not want to display the files screen; it prefers to download them to your computer.
If anyone knows how to correct those problems please let me know. Your questions, comments and suggestions are welcome.
Art Hovey
ahovey@optonline.net
The worksheets for physics I (first-year physics) are arranged in chapters. Each chapter has a "Chapter Review Sheet" which should be distributed early so that students can record new definitions and discoveries immediately. Each item on the chapter review sheet has the page number that it comes from listed in parentheses, so the review sheet also functions as an index.
to the Physics I Table of Contents, with brief chapter overviews:
The physics II worksheets (for a second-year A. P. course) are also arranged in chapters, but I found it best not to try to finish one chapter before starting the next.
To the Physics II Table of Contents with brief chapter descriptions: (Click HERE for the published version, mentioned above.)
Links to a few other physics teaching websites:
to the Galvanized Jazz Band Website: