Introductory College Physics / 21st Century Teaching in High School

Student will use laptop computers connected to PASCO interfaces and motion sensors to take data that will be used by them to inform their understanding of Newton's laws of motion.
Instead of being told how objects are capable of moving, students will first use the sensors to graph their own movements relative to the sensor to see how motion can be described graphically. Students will then be asked to perform motions that produce prescribed graphs on the computer screens.
Once students can differentiate between positive and negative movements they will be given a series of ranking tasks to complete. (Ranking tasks are specifically designed task that are inspired by current physics education research)
Students then will proceed to more sophisticated and diverse types of motion using the sensors until all of Newton's law are derived by experiment. Lecture will be used to supplement laboratory results and keep students from drawing false conclusions instead of being the primary source of their information regarding kinematics.