STUDENT MATERIALS

Each unit’s carefully ordered activities, targeted concept support, and software exercises make PRISMS PLUS the curriculum your students need.

Three Types of Activities
Three distinct types of activities — exploration, concept development, and application — present students with problems that engage them in scientific inquiry and call them to apply their observations to the concepts being introduced and to real-life applications.

• Exploration activities require students to make predictions and observations and discover patterns and relationships.
• Concept development activities provide opportunities for students to develop concepts within the context of what they have observed.
• Application activities provide students with a means to apply their understanding of concepts to new situations and real-life problems.

Each activity includes questions that provide a focus for students to link their observations and data with physics ideas and concepts. These questions also provide an opportunity for students to reflect on what they have learned and observed. Each activity also includes an extension that provides students with suggestions to make further observations, collect data, and arrive at evidence-based conclusions about the concepts being addressed.