AP Summer Institutes 2024 - will the new exam content and structure be discussed?

Of course it will!  

I'm doing several online and in-person P1 institutes in summer 2024 - see the sidebar to the left for details.  Please sign up!  The institute will certainly discuss content and structure changes for the 2025 exams.

What, specifically, will we do?

• We will do a number of fluids demonstrations and lab activities, including all three major fluids topics.
• We will do demonstrations with the three minor content changes in P1: parallel axis theorem, quantitative understanding of elliptical orbits, and center of mass location.
• We will discuss the new exam format - though I will emphasize that in P1, preparing students for the 2025 exam format looks exactly like preparing students for the 2015-2024 exam format.

Of course, the institute will still do all the AP Summer Institute things that you expect.  I'll give an overview of the AP program, the course audit, and AP classroom.  Much more interestingly and importantly, I'll discuss give you access to my course files, problem sets, laboratory activities, quizzes, tests, and a day-by-day planner.  Teachers new to AP Physics 1 can use these verbatim to get themselves started; veterans can use the materials to supplement and inform what they already do well.

The highlight of the in-person institutes is the "studio time" in lab on the final day, in which we all work together to set up and develop laboratory exercises based on released AP questions.  You'll come away with a dozen or more pre-tested new lab ideas!  In the online institutes, which are broadcast live from my actual classroom, we'll instead do "improv time" - challenge me to set up an experiment, or to show how I use demonstrations to teach any topic on the exam.