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College Ready Physics Standards: A Look to the Future  [ Report ]
  
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This document contains a set of K-12 educational standards for physics. This work is an extension of Advanced Placement standards to a full K-12 progression of physics concepts.…
https://www.compadre.org/precollege/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=10310&DocI...
Understanding Science: Misconceptions About Science 
  
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This web page explores misinterpretations of the scientific process and explains why these commonly-held beliefs are incorrect. A few examples of such misconceptions are: "Without an…
https://undsci.berkeley.edu/teaching/misconceptions.php
Selected Works of Dewey I. Dykstra 
  
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This web page is an open-access repository where teachers may download full articles, papers, and scholarly works written by physics education researcher Dewey Dykstra. A professor…
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Conceptual Development About Motion and Force in Elementary and Middle School Students 
  
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This cost-free article is a must-read for K-8 physical science teachers. Methods of physics education research were applied to find what kinds of changes in 4th, 6th, and 8th grade…
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Private Universe Project in Science 
  
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This is a collection of nine video-based workshops developed to help teachers identify and implement strategies that help students deeply learn abstract science content. Be prepared…
https://www.learner.org/series/a-private-universe/
IOPSpark: Misconceptions Collection 
  
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This collection from the UK's Institute of Physics presents findings from academic literature about the varied ideas young people have regarding processes in the physical world. It…
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IOPSpark: Many students are unable to accurately represent a magnetic field using field lines 
  
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This page from the Institute of Physics provides resources developed specifically to address secondary students' difficulties in understanding how magnetic field is related to…
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IOPSpark: Some students conflate magnetic and electrostatic effects 
  
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This page from the Institute of Physics provides research-based evidence that secondary students and college students majoring in science education often hold entrenched notions that…
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IOPSpark: Many students are slow to adopt the idea of magnetic poles 
  
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This page from the Institute of Physics provides two tutorials and one lab designed to specifically address students' difficulties in understanding magnetic effects in terms of…
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IOPSpark: Many students have difficulty predicting the direction of the force in electromagnetism 
  
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This page from the Institute of Physics, aimed at algebra-based physics course level and above, features a straightforward tutorial on the force on a moving charge; an impressive…
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