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Teacher Aids

Physics Classroom aims to be a one-stop-shop for all your teaching needs.  Instead of hunting for worksheets to go along with your lessons, or interactives to support a concept, Physics Classroom combines everything in one location.  It's our mission to equip teachers to make Physics and Chemistry phun to learn.  Most of our resources are free, and the couple premium ones are low cost.  We haven't raised our prices yet despite inflation and rising expenses - because we know most teacher's budgets also haven't increased despite inflation and rising expenses.  

Here are all of our Teacher Aids resources.  Some of these exist in their own section on the website, so we will list those here as well as the ones found within this section.

Online Learning Suite

Here is a brief overview of the main site features we have.

LEARN: Physics and Chemistry Online Textbook (Tutorial)
Our online textbook (Physics Tutorial and Chemistry Tutorial) provides a free, fun curriculum that's written for high school students at their level.

UNDERSTAND: Concept Builders
These modules help build an understanding of the physics or chemistry concepts they are trying to learn.  We provide guided help to overcome problems and expose and help correct misunderstandings.

EXPLORE: Interactives
These activities include games, virtual labs, and other simulations to help students interact with and explore Physics and Chemistry.  Many have Student Activity sheets and Concept Checkers to help make sure students understand what they've interacted with.

PRACTICE: Minds On
This quiz-like module allows students to test their knowledge with a fun (or anxiety inducing) health bar and progress bar.  Can they answer each question without their health reaching zero?  Chemistry Minds On coming soon!

CALCULATE: CalcPad
Math is an integral part of physics and chemistry.  The CalcPad provides thousands of problems and hundreds of assignments for students to practice math-based operations with random variables for each student.

APPLY: Science Reasoning
Put your knowledge to real-life scenarios as students will flex their scientific minds and reasoning with our NGSS-aligned activities.

Lesson Plans

Each year, many teachers get the exciting news that they get to teach Physics!  This excitement is often turned to despair when they then realize that they have no lesson plans, no textbook, and more often than not, the course starts next week.  

Physics Classroom to the rescue!  Our Lesson plan section contains full day by day lesson plans using all of our resources, as well as topical resource listings for those who are supplementing existing learning.  We currently have them available in Conceptual Physics, Algebra-Based On-Level Physics, and Honors Physics.  We hope to have AP1 Physics and Chemistry lesson plans available over the next year or two.

Think Sheets (Curriculum Corner)

Finding or Creating meaning worksheets can be hard.  Our Curriculum Corner features multiple worksheets for each unit of Physics and Chemistry that you can download/print and use in class for free! There also are Physics Solutions Guide and Chemistry Solutions Guide digital downloads for $25 each if you want the answer key and original files so you can easily grade or modify the assignments. We verify any purchaser of these resources to make sure no student gets them. 

Labs (The Laboratory)

Let's face it, doing labs can be one of the most phun and memorable parts of Physics and Chemistry (like the time the pure sodium created a fireball and flew across the room...).  The Laboratory provides labs with teacher guides and student scoring rubrics.  The teacher's guides outline the topic/questions, materials, procedures, safety concerns and other instructions to help make the labs a success.  We currently have over 100 physics labs available.  We will be working on our Chemistry Lab offering in the years to follow.

Physics Teacher Toolkits

Similar to our Lesson Plasn, these toolkits provide a collection of resources for planning standards-based lessons and units.  Unlike the Lesson Plans, it will contain links to additional resources not found on Physics Classroom, as well as listings of the different learning standards they can apply to.  

Physics Teacher Presentation Pack

For more than two decades, The Physics Classroom has been supporting students, teachers and classrooms in the vital tasks of learning and teaching physics. Our Teacher Presentation Pack is a teacher resource designed to facilitate lesson planning, curriculum development, and presentations. The project was inspired and is supported by the Physics Video Tutorial section of our website. The download is packed with nearly 190 Microsoft PowerPoint slide decks, the corresponding Lesson Notes (as PDF and fully-modifiable MS Word format), about 170 animations (in .gif, .png, and .mp4 file formats), a countless number of ready-to-use images (including the original source documents that would allow for easy modification of those images), and a license that allows teachers to modify and use all the content with their classes on password-protected sites (such as course management systems). The Teacher Presentation Pack can be purchased for $40.

Conceptual Physics Course Pack

The Physics Classroom has been a long-time proponent of teaching concepts-first Physics. We're not afraid of math. We're just confident that the math of Physics is not the primary obstacle to student understanding and progress. Over the past couple of decades, "Conceptual Physics" has become a popular course name. This seems to us to be the result of the influence of Paul Hewitt's amazing book that goes by the same name. From our interaction with teachers, there seems to be a strong trend towards starting up a new course or a new level of Physics that is "conceptual in nature."  The course may not have the name "Conceptual Physics" but it is referred to as a course that won't have any math (or much math) or will have only concepts.

We've created an invaluable resource to aid in these low-to-no-match physics classes - The Conceptual Physics Course Package, this resource contains a large quantity of think sheets + answer keys, Student Labs + Teacher Lab Guides and Answers, and bonus presentation materials to help you teach this new style of Conceptual Physics.  It ties in with our Conceptual Physics Lesson Plan which references this course pack via the red linked items in it's curriculum.  This resource is only $75, but if you purchase with a Task Tracker Subscription, you'll receive a $25 discount to make it only $50!

Physics Question Bank

Writing good quizzes and tests for your physics course just became a whole lot easier … and a whole lot faster. With The Physics Classroom's Question Bank, you will be able to create, edit, and perfect that next test in considerably less time.  This question bank has over 9300 questions neatly organized by topic.  It does not contain answers (as to keep answer keys from being leaked online).  This is meant to create reliable paper quizzes and tests for assessment.  In a world of AI, paper tests and quizzes are back at the forefront of assessing knowledge. 

We do not currently have a Chemistry Question Bank, but hope to create one as more resources are built out.

NGSS Corner

This section is devoted to assisting teachers of Physics and Physical Science courses to integrate the Next Generation Science Standards into their lessons and curriculum. We have made our best effort to identify those activities at The Physics Classroom that align with the standards and to describe the manner in which they match up with the Disciplinary Core Ideas (DCIs), the Science and Engineering Practices, and the Crosscutting Concepts that are described by the NGSS.