This set of activities are designed for enthusiastic second year students with a good background knowledge of physics who have followed the 1st year activities and have a good working knowledge of Geogebra, Algodoo, Excel, Audacity, Capstone and LoggerPro plus associated hardware. it will be taken for granted that they also understand the principles of Mechanics, thermal physics and waves.

If the assignment turns out to be too difficult it is always possible to revert to the activities for a more structured approach or indeed to use the guided inquiry activity as reference material.

The PBL assignments will often contain far too much material to be completed in the normal class time but working as a team, students could complete everything.

This is an ongoing project, I will endeavour to keep ahead of my own class. I'm also not entirely sure how this will work but if it turns out not to be fun I'll scrap the idea.

Some of the exercises are a bit cryptic, this is part of the plan. the idea is that students will become good at solving problems and one of the most important stages in problem solving is understanding the problem. I will be preparing extensive support for teachers to help teachers understand what I am getting at. Please leave comments if you need clarification.