This web site contains a free textbook for a non-mathematical Conceptual Physics course aimed at high school or beginning college students.   The author adopts a modern approach to understanding physics revolving around the concepts of symmetry and conservation laws.  Specific topics include Conservation of Mass and Energy, Conservation of Momentum, Relativity, Electricity and Fields, The Ray Model of Light, and Waves.  (Open Website)

This website offers lesson plans on more than 70 demonstrations for use in introductory physics classrooms.  All demos have been fully tested in the classroom and were selected for inclusion because they are enjoyable, thought- provoking, and require minimal set-up.  Historical anecdotes and commentary add to the depth of this unique resource.  (Open Website)

This page contains links to K-8 lesson plans classified by grade level.  Each lesson and unit was authored by a teacher whose school participates in the Core Knowledge Project, established to build academic excellence through specific, shared core curriculum.  Some of the units are cross-curricular and cross-grade in their design, and each has been reviewed by a team of content experts at the Core Knowledge Foundation.  (Open Website)

This web page contains links to 17 science Units developed for grades 4-8.  Included are such diverse topics as astronomy, electricity, sound and music, energy, light, magnets, simple machine, structures and shapes, and space.  Each Unit is composed of background information, lessons emphasizing hands-on problem solving, reproducible student activity sheets, and links to relevant reference materials.  (Open Website)

This collection, written by a high school physics teacher, contains detailed lesson plans for more than 50 hands-on labs on the topics of safety, measurement, mechanics, sound and light, and electricity.  Activities include reproducible data record sheets, student work assignments, and short-answer queries.   Labs are also organized into a week-by-week block plan to aid beginning teachers with a context for using each activity.  (Open Website)

This collection contains links to web sites, lesson plans, simulations, and other resources for high school physics teachers.  Resources are grouped according to topic and tied to national standards for physics education.  (Open Website)

This unique resource is a large collection of capsule reviews of material covered in introductory physics. The subjects are organized in flow charts that make it easy to move from one topic to a related one.  (Open Website)

This resource is an educator's guide that integrates the Learning Cycle pedagogical model with activities for the high school physical science classroom.  Each activity includes a series of questions with information and tips for the instructor. Topics range from mass and density through Newton's laws and electricity, to heat and light.  (Open Website)

This collection offers well-organized sets of java simulations relating to physics for high school classroom use.  The subjects include mechanics, waves, electricity, optics, thermodynamics, relativity, atoms, and nuclear physics.  The simulations are designed to be easily manipulated by high school students.  (Open Website)

This NSF-sponsored collection provides instructions for 24 inquiry-based high school physics labs available for free download.  Topics include Mechanics, Waves, E&M, and Optics.  The materials on Atomic Force Microscopy and Resistance of Atomic Wires are among the few web-based resources on nanophysics designed specifically for high school students.  (Open Website)