Task Tracker (Premium)

All of our online resources are freely available for teachers and students to use in the classroom. For those looking to take instruction a step further, our Task Tracker premium service provides powerful tools for managing student learning.

With Task Tracker teachers, homeschool parents or tutors can create classes, assign and modify activities, monitor student progress and automatically score—all within a secure, easy-to-use platform designed to make our resources even more effective.

Ad Free (Premium)

The Physics Classroom is committed to providing schools and students with high-quality, affordable learning tools. Most of our resources are freely available, supported by student-safe advertising.

For classrooms seeking an ad-free experience, we offer two subscription options that remove ads entirely.

Concept Builders

A Concept Builder is an interactive learning activity designed to foster students' understanding of a specific concept through guided practice and feedback. Each activity presents carefully structured questions that address multiple aspects and levels of the concept, with progress tracked throughout.

Students receive immediate feedback and targeted help when they struggle, including brief explanations and reminders of key principles. By combining purposeful questioning, adaptive support, and opportunities for mastery, Concept Builders promote meaningful learning and conceptual growth.

We invite you to explore a few Concept Builders and experience how they can enhance conceptual understanding in your classroom.

Minds On

Minds On is a comprehensive collection of over 1,300 carefully crafted questions designed to deepen students' understanding of key physics concepts. Each activity focuses on one or two specific learning outcomes.

Through structured practice and reflection, Minds On challenges students to think critically, confront misconceptions, and build a stronger conceptual foundation in physics - and soon Chemistry!

Science Reasoning

The Science Reasoning Center offers a collection of interactive experiences designed to cultivate and assess students' scientific reasoning skills. Each activity presents information that students must evaluate, interpret, and synthesize as they respond to questions and complete tasks—encouraging deeper thinking and evidence-based reasoning.

Interactives

As more high schools embrace 1-to-1 learning by equipping every student with an iPad, Chromebook, or similar device, physics teachers face a familiar challenge: many of the trusted interactive simulations once powered by Java, Flash, and Shockwave no longer work on these modern, mobile-friendly platforms. Interactives were created to bridge this gap with a growing collection of engaging, HTML5-based activities designed specifically for today's devices—whether tablets, Chromebooks, laptops, or even smartphones. Fully free of outdated plug-ins, these rich simulations deliver the same hands-on discovery that makes physics come alive, ensuring every student in your classroom can explore concepts interactively, no matter what device they hold. Begun in 2014 we now have over 140 interactives and more are added yearly. Interactives is our ongoing commitment to supporting teachers and inspiring learners in every 1-to-1 environment.

Calc Pad

CalcPad is an automated problem delivery and grading system featuring more than 2,500 questions within over 600 problem sets with dynamically generated values. Students can submit answers directly, receive immediate feedback, and make multiple attempts to refine their understanding.

Each problem is supported by helpful learning resources—such as audio-guided solutions, instructional web pages, and video tutorials—providing students with the guidance they need to grasp underlying concepts and problem-solving strategies.

The Laboratory

The Laboratory provides a comprehensive collection of ready-to-use lab investigations designed to support hands-on learning in physics. Each lab includes a Lab Description outlining the guiding question, purpose, and expectations for student lab notebooks—ideal for distribution as handouts or classroom displays.

Every lab also comes with a Scoring Rubric for assessment and a detailed Teacher's Guide that lists materials, outlines procedures, suggests alternatives, notes safety considerations, and highlights connections to The Physics Classroom Tutorial and Minds On modules.

Teacher's Guides are available as PDFs and editable Word documents, allowing educators to adapt materials to fit their classroom needs. Whether for new teachers, cross-discipline educators, or seasoned instructors, these resources offer an efficient way to build cohesive, effective lab experiences aligned with curriculum goals.

Digital Downloads

Physics Question Bank

With more than 9300 questions and more than 2000 images, the Question Bank will allow teachers to quickly create handouts, quizzes, tests and more. The questions are organized by topic with intuitive names and are in neatly formatted Microsoft Word files. NOTE: There are no answers in this product.

Physics Solutions Guide

You don't have to pay hundreds of dollars for a good curriculum. We give ours away for free. See our Curriculum Corner. We sell an extended license, source files, and answer keys for an additional $25. Our Solutions Guide download contains the extra content that assists teachers who are taking advantage of the Curriculum Corner.

Physics Teacher Presentation Pack

Our newest download offering - the Teacher Presentation Pack - provides teachers with 3.5 GB of ready-to-use yet fully-customizeable resources for managing your presentations and assisting your students with learning key Physics concepts. Inspired by our Physics Video Tutorial section, this loaded package of resources features PowerPoint slide decks, Lesson Notes, animations and movies, and images. For $40, your job will become much easier.

Chemistry Solutions Guide

The Physics Classroom has been supporting students, teachers and classrooms in the vital tasks of learning and teaching physics, and now Chemistry! The Chemistry Solutions Guide contains answer keys to each of the worksheets of the Chemistry Curriculum Corner section of The Physics Classroom website. Answer keys contain answers to all multiple choice questions, full explanations to all short answer questions, elaborately completed details for diagramming questions, and worked-out solutions to all word problems. As an added bonus to teachers, The Solutions Guide also contains Microsoft Word formatted files of both the worksheets and the answer keys. Please read the thorough description of our product on our website. We describe it thoroughly so that you know what you are purchasing. Once downloaded, we do not offer refunds or returns.

Conceptual Physics Course Package

The package consists of a large quantity of Think Sheets, Answer Keys, Student Lab Sheets, Teacher Lab Guides with Answer Keys, Image Banks, and a large collection of BONUS items. It is a heavily packed package of resources that makes teaching a conceptual-based Physics course easy work (at least as easy as it can be). We provide source documents (Microsoft Word), PDFs, images (mostly .png), and some slide decks in Microsoft PowerPoint format as BONUS items. It's all ready-to-use. It's all customizable. It can be used as a stand-alone resource or used in coordination with the Tutorials, videos, simulations, and interactive content on our website.

Physics Interactives Pack

Physics Classroom is home to over a hundred Physics Interactive simulations, many of which have Concept Checkers and Student Activities available to freely use. This Physics Simulations Pack contains the source materials for the Concept Checkers (Images and Questions) and the source materials + Answer Keys for the Student Activity Sheets for easier grading.