I-Corps: Exploring Physics - the Curriculum App

探索物理课程应用程序提供为期一年的概念物理数字课程，最早可在9年级使用。因此，该应用程序为所有学生提供物理课程，而目前只有39%的高中生选择物理课程。此外，许多学区正在用移动设备代替课本。学区需要一个全面、严谨、互动和吸引人的数字课程，而不仅仅是现有教科书的数字版本。探索物理课程应用程序解决了这两个需求。学生学习物理使用讨论为基础的动手方法，嵌入动画，模拟和媒体。该应用程序还为教师提供了广泛的内置资源来教授这门课程。这个I-Corps团队希望这个综合的、互动的课程应用程序将在数字课程领域脱颖而出。通过让所有学生接触物理，这是STEM的基础，该团队解决了2010年向总统提交的关于美国未来K-12 STEM教育的报告中所述的国家需求。这款应用将在iPad、Android和PC/Mac平台上运行。纸笔版本的课程已经在之前由美国国家科学基金会资助的数学-科学合作项目（新生物理时间（NSF DUE 0928924,2009 -15））中进行了广泛的测试。课程在学科核心思想和科学实践方面与下一代科学标准（NGSS）保持一致。在该项目中创建了一个基于探究和建模的课程，并对学生和教师感兴趣的特征进行了测试（例如，特定的实验室，学生推断现象的概念模型所需的讨论点，代数和图形的复杂程度，阅读水平，知识广度的深度，所需的交互性水平）。在这个应用程序中，实验室被建立起来，这样学生就可以成为实验的设计者，然后引导他们产生概念或概念的数学模型。因此，规律不是“给予”给学生的，而是学生在老师的引导和学生的讨论下“发现”规律的。然后，他们通过阅读页面获得关于概念的更深入的知识，并在每个实验之后的实践中实践应用概念。

The Exploring Physics Curriculum App provides a yearlong digital curriculum for conceptual physics that can be used as early as 9th grade. Thus the app provides ALL students access to a physics course, in contrast to the 39% of high school students who take physics at present. Additionally, many school districts are replacing textbooks with mobile devices for their students. Districts need a comprehensive, rigorous, interactive and engaging digital curriculum, beyond just digital versions of existing textbooks. The Exploring Physics Curriculum App addresses both these needs. Students learn physics using a discussion-based hands-on method, with embedded animations, simulations and media. The app also provides teachers extensive built-in resources to teach the course. This I-Corps team expects that the proposed comprehensive, interactive curriculum app will be a standout in the digital curriculum landscape. By exposing ALL students to physics, the foundation of STEM, this team addresses a national need as stated in the 2010 report to the President on K-12 education in STEM for America's future.The app will be available on iPad, Android and PC/Mac platforms. The paper-pencil version of the curriculum has been extensively tested during a previous Math-Science Partnership project funded by NSF (A TIME for Freshman Physics (NSF DUE 0928924, 2009-15). The curriculum is aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) both in disciplinary core ideas and scientific practices. An inquiry-and modeling-based curriculum was created during that project, and features of interest to students and teachers were tested (for example, specific labs, discussion points necessary for students to infer conceptual models of phenomena, level of algebraic and graphing complexity, reading levels, depth of knowledge spans, level of interactivity desired). In the app, labs are set up so that students are the designers of experiments that then lead them to producing conceptual or mathematical models of a concept. Thus, laws are not "given" to the student, but they "discover" them with guidance from the teacher and discussion among students. They then gain deeper knowledge about the concept from reading pages and practice application of the concept in practices that follow each lab.