In supporting those standards, the curriculum emphasizes physics as inquiry, unifying concepts and processes of physics, and the history and nature of physics. Content goals are integrated into specific topics, units, and sequenced activities that help students make sense of fundamental ideas in physics. As a resource rich in strategies and materials, the C3P curriculum is flexible to accommodate a variety of teachers and students. The materials of the curriculum are also incorporated as a multimedia CD ROM that contains learning objectives, daily lesson plans, and learning cycle activities for explorations, concept development, applications, and an assessment component. In addition, video clips, microcomputer-based lab activities, simulation software, teacher instructional development software, and tracking software to follow students' progress as they use the CD ROM interactively are available.
P brings an excitement to physics curricula that is creative and based on research and experience.
With an over-arching goal to improve the quality of physics instruction in the nation's high schools, the curriculum incorporates instructional materials and strategies that have been shown to improve the high school teaching of physics, to increase motivation towards the study of physics, and to result in greater conceptual understanding by students of the essential concepts of physics. Through dissemination, C 3 P helps teachers across the nation transform their teaching methods from ones based primarily on lectures to ones based on inquiry, learning cycles, hands-on activities, interactive strategies, and conceptual understanding. In short, C 3 P will aid in propelling the teaching of physics in America into the twenty-first century.