Physics Teaching Resources

Just the other day I received this question, so I thought I'd share the answer:

I have a question relating to High School physics. I have been asked to help someone kinda do a home school physics class. I was wondering if you had any suggestion on a good physic book or any other sources on line.


The first is diagnoser.com, a resource for eliciting student misconceptions around different physics concepts. It sounds like it ought to be something like WebMD, but no, it's for physics education :) Teachers select the topic and can pick which questions they'd like to ask, and then it gives you a report of what misconceptions your students have: super cool.

Conceptual Physics by Paul Hewitt is a really fantastic curriculum, which I would highly recommend for a textbook.

Besides that, Arizona State University has something called "Modeling Curriculum" which is also excellent, though slightly more advanced (I mainly rely on their material for my classroom). I'd say it's one of the best available curricula I've seen.
http://modeling.asu.edu/