High School Physics: Resources for Students, Teachers and Parents
The High School Physics Web Guide offers help with questions regarding motion, matter and energy. Students and parents will find physics help on homework, as well as extra practice, formulas and demonstrations. Teachers will find links to physics lesson plans, worksheets and other classroom tools.
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Teaching Physics
Teaching physics is best done through demonstration, and real-world applications aren’t hard to find if you know where to look.
Insights for Teaching High School Physics
- Don’t get fooled into paying for resources for teaching physics. Although some pay sites offer dependable content, you’re just as likely to find great stuff somewhere else. The Web is full of free physics resources and we’ll show you where to look.
- We usually avoid recommending sites that are mere directories of links to outside sources. In our education guides, we make exceptions to this rule in order to provide you with as much helpful content as possible. Make sure to approach every directory with caution and evaluate the links before using a tool in the classroom.
Top Sites for Teaching High School Physics
For physics lesson plans …
The Educator’s Reference Desk
is home to a database of lesson plans. Browse the list to find great physics lesson plans.
TeAch-nology
has a large variety of physics lesson plans that are easy to use and sorted by category.
Ide@s
provides teacher-reviewed physics lessons, interactive tools and other resources. Each lesson is aligned with Wisconsin standards but can be adapted to any state. These lessons offer your students real-world, instructional fun.
For real-world problems …
PUMAS (Practical Uses of Math And Science)
is hosted by NASA and has real-world problems for your students to solve. The site is small but growing and can help your students explore practical applications of physics.
Physics Challenges
is managed by University of Hawaii professor Tom Browder. Find interesting physics questions that are linked to an external module explaining the answer, such as “How can Kevlar stop a bullet?”
How Everything Works
from the University of Virginia lists answers to questions about everyday science. Browse through the many questions and answers or find something more specific by using the search box.
For other physics resources …
Community Learning Network
lists several categories of physics topics. Each topic links to more specific subtopics, all of which link to demonstrations and activities.
The Ultimate Physics Resource Site
is a directory of links to sites with information on physics topics, great physicists, research labs and places to get physics answers.
The Science Spot
links to interactive lessons (with printable worksheets) around the Web. Find a physics scavenger hunt, Web sites on simple machines and more.
Physics at Home
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