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This open source textbook is intended for use in laboratory-centered physics courses for prospective and practicing elementary and middle school teachers. It also is appropriate for a general science course for non-majors. Emphasis is upon questioning, predicting, exploring, observing, discussing, reading, and writing about what one thinks and why.   

Students explore light and thermal phenomena, consider the influence of light and thermal phenomena on local weather and global climate change, and explore astronomical phenomena in the context of the Sun/Earth/Moon system. Each unit begins by identifying student resources for learning, developing central ideas based on evidence from exploring phenomena with everyday equipment and materials, using central ideas to explain intriguing phenomena, developing mathematical representations of the phenomena, using those representations to predict or estimate a quantity of interest, and making connections to educational policies such as the Next Generation Science Standards.   

The level of mathematics required assumes proficiency in mathematics taught in K-8 classrooms. Also assumed is the willingness to strengthen some high school mathematics skills as needed. These include using the geometry of similar triangles, interpreting the heights and slopes of line graphs, and solving linear algebraic equations.

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