Newton's 2nd Law

The vector summation of all the forces acting on a system is equal to the mass of the system times the acceleration of the center of mass of the system

Specific learning objectives/goals Motivation/guidance for objectives… what we want students to walk away with
Content: traditional textbook, “online textbook”, or traditional lecture content
- TLDR version
  - Equation list broken into fundamental and applied
- Verbose, textbook style version
Concept Map, connections
Algorithm/recipe/checklist/procedure: Not all topics will have cut and dry lists
- Tools - all the things you use to analyze these problems
- When it breaks down
Multiple representations
- Physical: annotated cartoon
- Mathematical
  - Mathematization
- Graphical
- Descriptive: words
- Actual phenomena: experiment, video
Important Features
- Common misconceptions
  - How to address misconception
- Going between representations
- Key Terms
  - Language/ESL
  - Reserved words, e.g. heat
Problem Examples
- Types: where you drop in, i.e. given a video, given text, given diagram
- Conceptual
- Quantitative
- Discipline specific
Engagement Activities
- In class
  - Clicker type shorter conceptual/quantitative
  - Longer worksheet type activities
  - Kinesthetic exercises
- Out of class: Applets or programs
  - At home virtual lab
  - At home “real” lab activities
- Lab
- Recitation
- Demos
- Passive: students just watch
- Interactive: students engage in the event
Random relevant web videos: kitten shot from a cannon
Student contributed content
- Content descriptions: ways they thought of it that helped understand
- Example problems