Educational Resources: Physics

This collection of lessons, videos and resources is designed for teachers, students and their families, providing engaging materials that explore foundational principles and cutting-edge discoveries in physics.

Lessons and activities

K-12 Curriculum: Physics

For educators (grades K–12)

TeachEngineering offers a comprehensive collection of K–12 physics curricular resources that integrate hands-on engineering design with fundamental physics concepts to enhance student learning and engagement.

Popular lessons include "Kinetic and Potential Energy of Motion" and "Physics of Roller Coasters."

QuarkNet

For high school educators

The QuarkNet collaboration is a national professional development program that connects high school science teachers with particle physicists to engage in authentic research and develop effective teaching practices in physics.

Interactive physics tutorials

For college students

Explore a collection of video tutorials and online activities focusing on foundational concepts in physics.

Videos

The Science of Sports

This U.S. National Science Foundation YouTube playlist the explores the science, engineering, physics, chemistry, design and technology that are helping Olympic athletes maximize their performance.

Little Shop of Physics

This NSF YouTube playlist features fun physics experiments developed by the Little Shop of Physics at Colorado State University.

Images

Researchers and citizen scientists have made important strides in understanding the human brain by mapping the brain connections of an adult fruit fly, known as a "connectome." This detailed map outlines the relationships between neurons and synapses.

Credit: Tyler Sloan and Amy Sterling for FlyWire

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The picture shows the Will lab for the creation of Bose-Einstein condensates of dipolar sodium-cesium (NaCs) molecules. The optical benches show laser systems for laser cooling and the vacuum system in which the molecules are cooled to nanokelvin temperatures.

An optical bench in the Will Lab at Columbia University uses lasers and optical elements to cool molecules to nanokelvin temperatures. Researchers created the first Bose-Einstein condensate from molecules, cooled to 5 nanokelvin (around -459.66 degrees Fahrenheit) and stabilized for two seconds.

Credit: Sebastian Will/ Will Lab/ Columbia University

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a yellow and orange close-up view of a quantum chip

A quantum chip from the Quantum Leap Challenge Institute for Robust Quantum Simulation at the University of Maryland contains quantum bits, or "qubits," the fundamental units of quantum information used in quantum computers.

Credit: John T. Consoli/University of Maryland

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