The Physics Teacher: The Physics First Curriculum for High School: Do Chemists Even Know This Is Happening?

Roy W. Clark
Department of Chemistry, Middle Tennessee State, Murfreesboro, TN 37130
J. Chem. Educ., 2008, 85 (4), p 490
DOI: 10.1021/ed085p490
Publication Date (Web): April 1, 2008

Abstract

The featured articles report on a suggested rearrangement of the science sequence in U.S. high schools called "Physics First". In this plan, conceptual physics is taken in the ninth grade followed by chemistry and biology. Several physicists comment on the plan, suggested by Leon Lederman in 1998. A forgotten 1940 paper in this Journal is credited as the real origin of "Physics First".

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High School / Introductory Chemistry

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  • Received: August 03, 2009

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