The College Board has released new curriculum resources for each of the four AP Physics courses:

  • Course and Exam Description (CED) (Fig. 1)

  • AP Classroom, a digital platform.

What follows is a summary of the most relevant elements of these new resources.

The Curriculum and Exam Descriptions are downloadable from AP Central,2 and teachers can order a free-of-charge hardcopy CED binder with a Course at a Glance poster. Each Course and Exam Description includes not only the curriculum framework, but also detailed unit guides and instructional strategies.

Topics
Electric currents, Electromagnetic induction, Magnetic fields, Mechanical waves, Newtonian mechanics, Electrical circuits, Materials, Educational aids, Educational assessment, Teaching
2.
Course and Exam Pages
,
AP Central
, https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/courses.
3.
Grant P.
 
Wiggins
 and
Jay
 
McTighe
,
Understanding by Design
(
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
,
2008
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