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Physics Education

Physics Education is a journal for everyone involved in and concerned about the teaching and learning of physics in schools and colleges. Physics Education supports the teaching of physics to students aged 11 up to the introductory undergraduate level.

Physics Education contains the following:

• Feature papers
  Papers that are interesting and useful to teachers of physics relate to the teaching and learning of physics; the examining and assessment of physics; new approaches to the general presentation and application of physics in the classroom; curriculum developments around the world. We also publish papers of general and/or topical interest to physics teachers.
• Frontline
  This section is for shorter papers which feature good, immediately useful ideas for the classroom or the laboratory. These may be classroom experiments and demonstrations; investigations; equipment; practical work and ways of teaching difficult topics in physics.
• News
  Events, activities and news which may inform and encourage other teachers.
• People
  The physics teaching community is full of inspiring and interesting people - this section features the schools and the personalities who have made an impact in physics education or, equally importantly, in industry, finance, the media or technology.
• Resource reviews
  Reviews include: books; equipment (including electronic interfaces); electronic media (CDROMs and web sites); videos and television programmes; places to visit: museums, exhibitions, laboratories, telescopes.
• Letters
  We publish letters which are of interest to the physics teaching community including short anecdotes, opinions, questions or comments on previous articles or letters. Letters are not normally more than 800 words.
• Signing Off
  A light-hearted look at physics teaching.
• Multimedia attachments
  The electronic version of Physics Education can include extra material as a multimedia attachment. Worksheets, spreadsheets, computer programmes, video clips...any electronically stored material can be attached, so you can share full resources with the other physics teachers and include exciting illustrations with submissions.

Physics Education seeks to serve the physics teaching community and we welcome contributions from teachers. If you would like to discuss any ideas you have for a paper or article please contact the Publisher at ped@iop.org

For school teachers in the United Kingdom both Physics Education and Physics World are available through the Institute of Physics’ Affiliated Schools scheme. More information is available about the Affiliation scheme.

If you would like to subscribe as an individual or non UK school/College, please go to pricing and ordering.

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