Enrolling Now for 2026-27 School Year.
Enrolling Now for 2026-27 School Year.
Dear Learning Coach,
Thank you for partnering with CCA and investing in your learner’s education. This Learning Coach Guide is intended to help you support your learner in their AP® Physics 1 course.
Within this guide, you will find the goals, components, and features of the online course.
Please take time to read and review this information so you understand how to help your learner interact with all the course’s elements.
The Learning Coach Guide also includes information about each of the units in this course.
On each page of unit information, you will discover the following:
CCA wishes you and your learner a terrific school year!
Your role as a Learning Coach is very important. Here are a few ways you can help your learner do their very best in the course.
In AP® Physics 1, your learner will study material similar to what can be found in a first-year algebra-based physics course. Your learner will develop their understanding through inquiry-based investigations, meaning activities that provide important goals but not step-by-step instructions regarding how to reach those goals. The topics list includes the following: kinematics, dynamics, conservation of energy, conservation of momentum, rotation, harmonic motion, and fluids.
By the end of the year, your learner will be able to:
Lesson Components:
Each day, your learner will spend approximately 50–60 minutes completing an AP® Physics lesson. Some days may take less time, while other days may take a little more time. It is common for learners taking AP® courses to spend time outside of the scheduled class time completing course reading or studying.
This section will help you to understand how your learner’s course is structured in edio.
Lesson Bundling:
Within the lesson bundles, there are different components your learner will interact with. These components will not be used every day.
Example:
1. Getting Started Lesson: There is one Getting Started lesson in this course. It can be found on Day 1 of Unit 1. This lesson includes important information about the course and contact information for your teacher.
2. Unit Overview: Each unit will include a unit overview. This describes what your learner will learn in the unit and how many assessments the unit will have.
3. Prep for Success: At the beginning of each unit, your learner will find a Prep for Success. This component offers learners tips to be successful in the course, such as study tips, important software information, safety reminders, and more.
4. Knowledge Check: There will be one Knowledge Check in each unit. The Knowledge Check is designed to check prior learning and understanding about key skills and concepts that will be taught in the unit. The Knowledge Check is not a graded assessment.
Each lesson has its own components to help guide your learner through the lesson.
1. Lesson Overview: At the beginning of every lesson, your learner will see the lesson overview. This section contains lesson objectives, lesson vocabulary, materials your learner will need for the lesson, and the suggested lesson length.
2. Engage: The first section of the lesson is Engage. In this section, learners will be introduced to the lesson by making a connection to past and present knowledge and will get ready for the lesson’s instruction.
3. Discover: New content and instruction is presented in the Discover section. Your learner will interact with the lesson content through defined vocabulary terms, videos, audio, and Pause and Think activities. Your learner will be able to practice and answer questions as they work through the lesson.
4. Show: Learners will demonstrate what they have learned in the lesson through a series of practice questions.
5. Summary: This section recaps the day’s objectives and prepares learners for a future lesson or assessment.
The course includes problem set assignments and lab projects. These graded assignments allow your learner to show what they have learned and apply their new skills. All CCA assignments and projects include these components.
1. Assessment Overview: At the beginning of each assessment, your learner will see the assessment overview. This section contains the goals of the assessment, materials your learner will need, length of the assessment, and directions for completion.
2. Plan: In the Plan section, learners will be introduced to the assignment or project. Learners may be provided with a review of content from the previous lessons, strategies for completing the activity, graphic organizers, and grading rubrics.
3. Do: Learners put their plan into action and work to complete the assignment or project successfully. This section also provides the grading expectations and/or rubric the teacher will use to grade the work.
4. Reflect: In Reflect, learners will think back to the work they completed. They will reflect upon the experience and analyze how well they completed the task. These moments of reflection are important and allow learners to think about their learning and their work habits.
In addition to assignments and projects, this course also includes quizzes, tests, and exams.
This course includes and uses unique features such as:
Science Mini-Labs: The mini-labs can be found in the Engage or Discover sections of some lessons. These short hands-on activities will help your learner engage and connect with the physics content in the course. The mini-labs allow your learner to briefly step away from the computer and experience the physics phenomenon directly.
Problem Sets: Your learner will complete ungraded practice problems in the Show section of each lesson. The next lesson may feature a graded problem set. This problem set is where your learner will be assessed on AP® style problems similar to those of the Show section. These small, graded assessments will allow your learner to gauge their understanding of the new concepts they have learned.
Lab Projects and Lab Reports: Throughout the course your learner will apply their new knowledge during their Lab Projects. They will have the opportunity to design and implement experiments to achieve a goal related to the new physics content they learned in the unit. The day after each lab day, they will complete a lab report. Completing these lab reports will provide your learner with college level lab reporting experience.
Unit Overview
In this unit, your learner will learn that freefall and projectile motion are related to each other in that they both occur under the force of gravity alone. Your learner will also learn that an object is always in freefall if it is dropped and that projectile motion occurs if an object is thrown or projected horizontally or at an angle.
Unit Assessments
Quiz _________________________
Test _________________________
Assignment ________________
Project _____________________
Exam _______________________
Have your learner identify which assessment type they see in their unit. Check all that apply.
Unit Discussion Questions
What was your favorite part of learning about kinematics?
What kinds of careers do you think study accelerated motion?
Think about carnival rides or amusement park rides. Would you rather be on a ride with a high velocity or a high acceleration? Why?
Unit Notables
Your learner will analyze motion in one and two dimensions. They will describe motion with words and equations. Motion will be modeled with sketches, graphs, equations, and experiments.
Kit Materials
binder clips, calculator, graph paper marble, marbles, masking tape, meter stick, notebook, protractor, rubber band, ruler, stopwatch, tennis ball
Household Materials
bottle cap, books to adjust ramp height, ramp, pencil
Unit Overview
In this unit, your learner will learn that freefall and projectile motion are related to each other in that they both occur under the force of gravity alone. Your learner will also learn that an object is always in freefall if it is dropped and that projectile motion occurs if an object is thrown or projected horizontally or at an angle.
Unit Assessments
Quiz _________________________
Test _________________________
Assignment ________________
Project _____________________
Exam _______________________
Have your learner identify which assessment type they see in their unit. Check all that apply.
Unit Discussion Questions
What was your favorite part of learning about kinematics?
What kinds of careers do you think study accelerated motion?
Think about carnival rides or amusement park rides. Would you rather be on a ride with a high velocity or a high acceleration? Why?
Unit Notables
Your learner will analyze motion in one and two dimensions. They will describe motion with words and equations. Motion will be modeled with sketches, graphs, equations, and experiments.
Kit Materials
binder clips, calculator, graph paper marble, marbles, masking tape, meter stick, notebook, protractor, rubber band, ruler, stopwatch, tennis ball
Household Materials
bottle cap, books to adjust ramp height, ramp, pencil
Enrolling Now for 2026-27 School Year.
