I-Corps: Exploring Physics - the Curriculum App

探索物理课程App为概念物理提供了为期一年的数字课程，最早可以在9年级使用。因此，这款应用程序为所有学生提供了一门物理课程，而目前只有39%的高中生选择物理课程。此外，许多学区正在为学生用移动设备取代教科书。学区需要一个全面、严谨、互动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满足了这两个需求。学生使用基于讨论的实践方法学习物理，其中嵌入了动画、模拟和媒体。这款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团队预计，拟议中的全面、互动课程应用程序将成为数字课程版图中的佼佼者。通过让所有学生接触STEM的基础物理，这个团队满足了2010年提交给总统的关于美国未来STEM K-12教育的报告中所述的全国性需求。该应用程序将在iPad、Android和PC/Mac平台上提供。纸笔版本的课程在之前由美国国家科学基金会资助的数学-科学伙伴项目中进行了广泛的测试(新生物理的时间(国家科学基金会截止日期0928924-15)。该课程在学科核心思想和科学实践方面都与下一代科学标准(NGSS)保持一致。在该项目期间，创建了以探究和建模为基础的课程，并测试了学生和教师感兴趣的特点(例如，具体的实验室、学生推断现象概念模型所需的讨论点、代数和图形的复杂程度、阅读水平、知识广度、所需的互动程度)。在这款应用中，设立了实验室，让学生成为实验的设计者，然后引导他们为一个概念建立概念或数学模型。因此，法律不是“给予”学生的，而是他们在老师的指导和学生之间的讨论中“发现”的。然后，他们从阅读页面中获得关于概念的更深层次的知识，并在每个实验之后的实践中实践概念的应用。

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.