This is an adaptive credit recovery course, in which students will complete a pretest for each module, and will be exempted from activities for topics where mastery is demonstrated. This type of credit recovery course targets individual areas of need in the curriculum and minimizes repetition of content where students have demonstrated their understanding.
Students will review the International System of Units, scientific notation, and significant figures. They will then explore how to describe and analyze motion in one- and two-dimensions, including study of gravity and Newton's laws of motion. The course concludes with an examination of circular motion, energy, and simple machines. Throughout this course students will apply mathematical concepts, such as graphing and trigonometry, to solve physics problems.
Major topics include:
- Measurement and appropriate units
- Motion of objects in the universe
- How forces change motion of an object
- Force, work, and energy
- Momentum
Students learn through online lesson activities, videos, and interactive activities. Each module begins with a pretest, proceeds to lessons that conclude with a brief self-check, and wraps with a module exam. The course concludes with a cumulative exam.
This course uses content from Accelerate Education taught by a VHS Learning instructor who is certified in their content area and who follows VHS Learning policies. The course will be hosted in the Buzz learning management system. Students may spend 40 hours completing this course, though actual time-spent will vary based on individual student performance in module pretests.
Credit recovery courses do not meet initial eligibility requirements for NCAA. Students who require flexible courses meeting initial eligibility requirements should consider VHS Learning self-paced courses, which can be found in the VHS Learning Catalog. Algebra 2
Students should confirm that their high school will accept this course for credit recovery before
registering for this course.
Course Learning Objectives:
- Analyze velocity and acceleration of projectiles.
- Differentiate between various types of forces.
- Apply Newton’s laws of motion in various scenarios.
- Define work and understand whether work is done in certain scenarios.
- Apply the Law of Conservation of Energy to physics problems.
- Utilize the Impulse-Momentum Theorem to solve problems.
- Identify different types of simple machines.