I-Corps: Exploring Physics - the Curriculum App

探索物理课程应用程序提供了一个为期一年的概念物理数字课程，早在9年级就可以使用。因此，该应用程序为所有学生提供了物理课程，而目前只有39%的高中生学习物理。此外，许多学区正在为学生用移动的设备取代教科书。地区需要一个全面的，严格的，互动的和引人入胜的数字课程，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。学生学习物理使用基于讨论的动手方法，与嵌入式动画，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课程。这个I-Corps团队预计，拟议中的综合互动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STEM基础物理，该团队满足了2010年向总统提交的关于美国未来STEM K-12教育的报告中所述的国家需求。该应用程序将在iPad、Android和PC上提供/Mac平台。该课程的纸笔版本已经在以前的数学科学合作伙伴项目由NSF资助（一个时间为新生物理（NSF到期0928924，2009-15）进行了广泛的测试。该课程在学科核心思想和科学实践方面都符合下一代科学标准（NGSS）。在该项目期间创建了一个基于探究和建模的课程，并测试了学生和教师感兴趣的功能（例如，特定的实验室，学生推断现象概念模型所需的讨论点，代数和图形复杂性的水平，阅读水平，知识广度的深度，所需的交互水平）。在应用程序中，实验室的设置，使学生是实验的设计者，然后引导他们产生概念或数学模型的概念。因此，法律不是“给”给学生的，而是他们在老师的指导下和学生之间的讨论中“发现”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.