This is a five session class designed to prepare students to excel in a future high school physics course.  The class consist of five 90-minute face-to-face sessions and assigned Minds on Physics© game modules played outside of class. Minds on Physics© functions as homework for practice and assessments for feedback. Students and parents will receive weekly progress updates. Access to a one-year subscription for Minds on Physics© is provided for all students.

Face-to-face, synchronous learning, will be an inquiry-based discovery of physics concepts through the creation and analysis of visual, graphical, and mathematical models. Experiments will be designed and data will be collected through virtual web-based interactives. Google Sheets will be used to create graphical models of data collected. Students will present the models to each other for peer review, then test the models for their predictive abilities. [This process meets the curricular competencies of: questioning and predicting; planning and conducting; processing and analyzing data and information; evaluating; applying and innovating; and communicating.] Students will be supplied with resources to explain and support the physics concepts developed and tested during the inquiry portion of class time.

Homework and Assessments of Understanding will be done asynchronously through the Sudden Death (for credit) mode of the Minds on Physics©  application (MOPs).  Test it out by clicking on this link:  https://www.physicsclassroom.com/mop/Kinematic-Concepts/Scalars-and-Vectors/Mission-KC1

The Class Syllabus is as follows:

First Class - 
     Face2Face: 
       Mass in motion
       When masses collide or explode
       Concept review:
       The impulse momentum change theorem
       Elastic and inelastic collisions
       Explosions
     MOPs: 
       Mission MC1: Momentum
       Mission MC2: Impulse and Momentum Change
       Mission MC4: Force, Impulse, and Momentum Change
       Mission MC5: Momentum Conservation
       Mission MC7: Momentum Conservation Analysis

Second Class - 
    Face2Face: 
       Defining and calculating work
       Calculating power
    Concept review: 
       Work
       cosΘ
       Power
     Problem Sets:
       Problem Set WE3:  Work and Power 1
       Problem Set WE4:  Work and Power 2
       Problem Set WE5:  Work and Power 3
     Concept Builder:
       Work
     MOPs: 
       Mission WE1: Work
       Mission WE2: Power
     
Third Class - 
    Face2Face: 
       Energy forms and transfer
       The conservation of energy
    Concept review: 
       Potential energy
          Gravitational
          Elastic
       Kinetic Energy (motion)
       Mechanical energy
       Energy Skate Park

     Problem Sets:
       Problem Set WE6:  Kinetic Energy
       Problem Set WE7:  Potential Energy
       Problem Set WE8:  Total Mechanical Energy
     Concept Builder:
       Name That Energy
       What's Up (and Down) with KE and PE?
       Energy Ranking Tasks
     MOPs: 
       Mission WE3: Kinetic and Potential Energy
       Mission WE4: Mechanical Energy
       Mission WE8: Energy Analysis

Fourth Class - 
     Face2Face: 
       Conservative and non-conservative forces
       Energy bar charts to model changes in total mechanical energy
    Concept review: 
       Conservation of energy
     Concept Builder:
       Words and Charts
       Match That Bar Chart
       LOL Charts (a.k.a., Energy Bar Charts)
       Stepping Up to PE and KE
       Up and Down with Energy
     MOPs: 
       Mission WE5: Conservative and Non-Conservative Forces
       Mission WE6: Energy Bar Charts
       Mission WE7: Mechanical Energy Conservation