There is a huge range of interactive sections, with investigations and models that introduce concepts and allow exploration.
The key to Absorb courseware is allowing students to think for themselves, rather than simply learning facts. Investigations are used in each unit, with the student operating controls and interpreting results or data. Questions link with these investigations, focusing the student on key learning objectives.
If you've got Flash Player 5 or later installed, you can try the example investigations across. It looks at decelerating a car, and graphing its motion.
Clear animations are used to illustrate hidden concepts and experments. If you've got Flash Player 5 or later installed, you can try the example animation across, which shows how speed can be measured using light gates.
Absorb Physics for A-Level also incorporates powerful simulation from Crocodile Physics. Many of the units in Absorb Physics for A-Level include simulations created in Crocodile Physics. These allow free experimentation with geniune simulation of electronics, force & motion or optics.
Crocodile Physics simulation is mathematically accurate and flexible, and brings a unique dimension to this course.
The Media Gallery allows you to browse through the interactive sections of the course, and take them out to use in your own lessons.
Each unit has a media gallery. This extracts the interactive elements listed above and shows them on one page. It lets you use them in two ways: either alone, viewed full-screen for projection in front of a class, or in context within a unit.
This lets you incorporate the hundreds of top-quality interactive elements into your own teaching however you choose, as well as having them as part of the complete course. When using the media in-context, they can still be temporarily expanded to a full-screen view, and they can be floated above the text to ensure that they're always visible.
Each unit has questions within the narrative, designed to break up the text and check understanding of what has been covered.
They can be used as a basis for classroom discussion while presenting on a whiteboard, or to help involve pupils studying alone. Each unit also has a set of test questions at the end. These cover what has been studied in the unit.