PhysicsLAB

PhysicsLAB
Background Information




In October, 1997, Volusia County Schools received a United States Department of Education "Career Connection to Teaching with Technology" Innovation Challenge Grant. 

Mainland High School, in Daytona Beach, Florida, is serving as the co-ordinating hubsite for this 5-year grant.  As part of the grant, Mainland's physics students have had the unique opportunity of participating in the development and implementation of a web-based physics program.

Beginning with the very first day of school three years ago, the daily routine for Mainland's physics students starts by sitting down in front of one of the fourteen computer-lab stations in the physics lab to reference the "daily agenda" for their class.



Copyright © 1997-2001
Catharine H. Colwell

All rights reserved.


Darby Van Amburg
AP student: 1997-1998

I feel that participating and learning physics through this new medium has enabled me to benefit doubly by acquiring academic and technological skills at the same time.