Powerful Ideas in Physical Science

New from AAPT, this undergraduate course is now available on a CD-ROM. Two new chapters entitled Force and Motion are only on the CD-ROM. Now easier to use, the CD for the first time offers instructor and student materials electronically. It allows you to search topics, print out just what you need, modify worksheets, and more.

The Powerful Ideas course model is intended for faculty who teach college students who aspire to be tomorrow’s elementary educators. The course content focuses on those physical science concepts that are initially introduced in elementary science curricula. In addition, the flexible materials can be modified to build an introductory physical science course for nonscience majors. Easy-to-use worksheets and a structured questioning pattern guide future teachers through a hands-on, inquiry-based course that models the way science should be taught. The college instructor’s materials parallel student activities and provide important insights and instructional background. Assessment strategies are included to assist faculty in developing techniques that assess meaningful learning. The six volumes: Light and Color, Electricity, Heat and Conservation of Energy, Nature of Matter, Force, and Motion (last two available on CD only) can be used chronologically or in optional sections. To offer a course constructed on Powerful Ideas in Physical Science, the department needs only one set of course development materials per faculty member. The course includes student materials, rights to copy and distribute student materials, and access to a networking list of current users. No other textbook is necessary.

A single CD-ROM contains all six volumes in the course. Each volume is password protected -- so when you purchase a certain volume or volumes, you will be given a unique password. If you have already purchased the paper volumes of Powerful Ideas, you may buy volumes on the CD for 25% of the prices below.

1 vol. $125
2 vols. $235
3 vols. $350
4 vols. $450
5 vols. $550
6 vols. $650

Nonmembers add $50 to the above prices.

If you would prefer a paper version of volumes 1–4, with the student materials available on disk, you may purchase them for $90 per volume.

To order, visit the AAPT Store.