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Carl Wieman's Sci Ed Initiative @ U British Columbia includes resources like: clicker question resources what U should know 'bout ...PI, ...Ed Research, ...making clicker questions, ...cognitive research

Question of the Day index University of Maryland. each question is linked within a lecture demo

Conceptual Questions

Questions From the Peer Instruction book by Eric Mazur

GPS is handy for finding a route, but it might be able to solve fundamental questions in physics too. An analysis of GPS satellite orbits hints that Earth is heavier than thought, perhaps due to a halo of dark matter.

Inspired by Rhett Allain's physics explanations at Dot Physics, Dan Meyer's blog series "What Can You Do With This?", and Dan's TEDx plea for a math curriculum makeover, I have been collecting video clips that are prime for my physics students to analyze. Videos are categorized by topic to help teachers locate videos for the concepts at hand. Several videos are listed under multiple topics. The videos are presented without any further questions other than "Physics win or physics fail?" (real or fake?)

Joe Redish's UMDPERG website. Links to lots of good stuff: Homework problems Physics Suite Peer Instruction Questions

College Ready Physics Standards: A Look to the Future written by Patricia Heller and Gay Stewart 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. There are five main standards each with a set of objectives, foundation knowledge statements, conceptual learning targets, and learning outcomes. The document also includes instructional guides for each of the standards and objectives to help teachers interpret and address the learning outcomes. These guides include common student difficulties and the content boundaries for each grade band, as well as example activities, questions, and problems.

Conceptual Questions