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PhysicsLAB is an educational website created in 1997 by Catherine Colwell, a physics teacher at Mainland High School in Daytona Beach, Florida. The website teaches students across the country about physics, using "resource lessons", "worksheets". The sister website of PhysicsLAB is AlgebraLAB, a site designed to teach algebra and geometry.
Resource Lessons
editResource lesson on this site typically contain text explaining a concept, equations summarizing the concept, and sample problems with diagrams and solutions. Colwell's classroom instruction and lessons are based around these resource lessons.
Worksheets
editThese contain several practice problems, with textboxes to submit answers. At the end of the worksheet are more input field so that students may put in a form of username and password to submit their results to the main database for grading.