The idea was to pick and choose among these approaches while incorporating many of the laboratories that we have done in the past and want to continue to do. Not all of the curricula were used.
Some ideas fit together more easily than others.
Workshops and conferences were valuable as places to get ideas from other participants as well as from the presenters. Feedback from students was extremely valuable. Every attempt was made to take information provided by students and incorporate it into the class. Jamestown Community College is fortunate to have four semesters of calculus based physics in its curriculum. The first semester is Mechanics, the second semester covers Rotational Motion, Thermodynamics, SHM, Gravity, Waves, and Fluids.