Problem-Based Learning for College Physics

A Website of Life-like Activities

Nathaniel Lasry
John Abbott College
CCDMD

The purpose of this site is to provide college instructors with high-quality, field-tested Problem-Based Learning (PBL) activities in physics. Each activity presented here has already been used within Quebec College classrooms. Instructors may be interested in using the approach, but lack the time to develop thorough context-rich problems. This site therefore presents a sampling of PBL problems that can be readily used by interested instructors. A student's guide as well as a teacher's guide are provided for each problem. Feedback concerning problems presented here is welcomed and encouraged as well as any contribution of new PBL problems to create an emerging community of users.

Software Design and Programming: Robert Daniel Szczech
Graphic Design: Sophie Paquette
2007