The changes from AP B Physics to AP Physics 1, will be challenging and will require a more conceptual understanding of the basic laws of Physics. During the workshop we will see how the Big Ideas, Essential Knowledge, and Science Practices tie into the Learning Objectives that a student must be able to do that will demonstrate their understanding of these basic concepts. In addition to a mathematical understanding, students of Physics 1 must be able to articulate, in correct scientific terms, these concepts.

The daily agenda will be fluid so that it can conform to the needs of the participants. Focus will be on:

1. Building Student’s Critical Thinking Skills.
2. Developing materials that participants can use in their classroom in the upcoming school year to help their students with thinking skills.

Student responses to the modifications made to the multiple-choice section of the test. Understanding what the student will be expected to demonstrate in the free response section of the test. These will include:

• Responses to inquiry lab questions.
• Qualitative/Quantitative Translations.
• Short Answer.
• Analyzing graphical data.
• Viewing the added and expanded areas of the new AP Physics 1.
• Syllabus development.
• Best Practices.
• Designing Inquiry labs that will help build student skills in thinking, describing, interpreting, and making calculations and/or predictions.

DAY 1 (70% synchronous 30% asynchronous)

1. Introduction
2. Two kinds of students
3. Problem solving strategy
4. About the AP exam
5. First day of class
6. Grading the exam
7. Experiment #1

DAY 2 (70% synchronous 30% asynchronous)

1. Inquiry based instruction
2. Problem solving strategy revisited.
3. Setting up the calendar
4. Seven-day cycle

DAY 3 (70% synchronous 30% asynchronous)

1. Cycle 1 1D Motion  
2. Cycle 2 2D Motion
3. Cycle 3 Newton’s Law
4. Cycle 4 Application of Newton’s Laws
5. Cycle 5 Circular Motion and Gravitation
6. Info from the college board
7. Info from the college board
8. Cycle 6 Work-Energy theorem
9. Cycle 7 Conservation of Energy
10. Cycle 8 Impulse-Momentum Theorem
11. Cycle 9 Conservation of Momentum

DAY 4/5  (70% synchronous 30% asynchronous)

1. Cycle 10 Simple Harmonic Motion
2. Go over MC 33-50
3. Cycle 11 Rotational Statics/Torque
4. Cycle 12 Rotational Dynamics/Moment of Inertia
5. Cycle 13 Electric Charge and Electric Force     
6. Cycle 14 DC Circuits
7. Cycle 15 Mechanical waves and Sound
8. Cycle 16 Superposition of Waves and Standing Waves.DAY 1 

Thomas Hoch has taught all levels of physics for the past 22 years in New Castle County DE; first at Archmere Academy, and currently at the Tower Hill School where he is the chair of the science department.  Tom has presented about 50 of these week-long AP summer institutes starting in the summer of 1999. He has also been a reader for the AP Physics exam and has been trained in the teaching of the AP Physics I and II courses as well as the teaching of critical thinking in physics.