Differentiating Instruction With Menus: Physics (Grades 9-12)

by Laurie E. Westphal

Overview

Differentiating Instruction With Menus: Physics (grades 9-12) offers teachers everything needed to create a student-centered learning environment based on choice in the high school classroom. This book:

• Uses different types of menus that students can use to select exciting advanced-level products.
• Features attractive reproducible menus and rubrics.
• Is based on the levels of Bloom's revised taxonomy.
• Incorporates different learning styles.
• Makes incorporating choice into the classroom stress-free for both teachers and their students.

Topics addressed include motion, forces, energy, momentum, and waves. These menus can be used to guide students in making decisions as to which products they will develop after studying a major concept or unit.

Grades 9-12

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781618219794
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/15/2020
Pages:	148
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	14 - 17 Years

About the Author

After teaching science for more than 15 years, both overseas and in the U.S., Laurie E. Westphal now works as an independent gifted education and science consultant. She enjoys developing and presenting staff development on differentiation for various districts and conferences, working with teachers to assist them in planning and developing lessons to meet the needs of their advanced students.

Table of Contents

Part I All About Menus and Choice 1

Chapter 1 Choice 3

Chapter 2 How to Use Menus in the Classroom 21

Chapter 3 Guidelines for Products 27

Chapter 4 Rubrics 41

Part II The Menus 49

Chapter 5 Motion 51

Significant Figures 52

Motion Graphs 54

Two-Dimensional Motion: Vectors 57

Projectile Motion 60

Momentum and Collisions 63

Oscillatory Motion 66

Chapter 6 Forces 69

Free Body Diagrams 70

Newton's Laws of Motion 73

Gravitational Force 79

Electrostatic Forces 82

Electric Conductors and Insulators 86

Electric Circuits 89

Electric and Magnetic Forces 92

Chapter 7 Energy 95

Work and Power 96

Energy Transformations 100

Thermodynamics 103

Mass-Energy Equivalence 106

The Photoelectric Effect 111

Nuclear Phenomena 114

Chapter 8 Waves 117

Transverse Waves 118

Longitudinal Waves 121

Characteristics of Waves 126

Image Formation 130

Behavior of Waves 133

References 137

About the Author 139

Common Core Standards and Next Generation Science Standards 141