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AMPS website

Teachers, science communicators, physics academics, university students, and online learning specialists from the University of Sydney and high schools around New South Wales have worked together to create over 50 multimedia resources. Under the title AMPS – Australian Multimedia for Physics Students – they tackled some of the problematic topic areas in year 11 and year 12 physics.

Students and academics within the Sydney University Physics Education group spent years studying the best use of video in the classroom. As a result, the videos in AMPS are short and snappy – designed to be watched in a series. Common student misconceptions are addressed, and lesson plans are provided to make them easy to use.

From power stations to university laboratories, from Dr Karl to the best professors in Australia, the team behind AMPS are excited to be bringing this science into classrooms around New South Wales.
The DVD and website was created with funding under the Australian School Innovation in Science, Technology, and Mathematics (ASISTM) initiative. On the website, teachers will find the films under in the resources section. Lesson plans group the resources together along with suggestions to work through the ideas, along with other helpful links to other physics education sites.