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Welcome to the New Compass Rose. For the final year of my teaching career I have redesigned this Web site to provide my students at Athens High School, their parents, and my colleagues with information about my courses, science, and education. Mouse over one of the links labeled in the image at the left to access this content. To learn more about the history of compass roses click on the image title at the top. Please contact me with your questions, comments, or suggestions: tstork@seorf.ohiou.edu

Students in AHS physics courses will learn to

• Collect and evaluate experimental evidence for consistency and validity.
• Create, evaluate, and modify scientific models based on reliable evidence.
• Develop a world view informed by testable models.
• Use mathematics as a language to express scientific concepts and relationships.
• Employ a wide range of media to communicate the results of experiment and discovery.
• Appreciate the role played by physics in shaping the history of human endeavor.
• Comprehend the moral and ethical implications inherent in any application of the findings of science and technology.
• Develop skill in self-reflection and assessing one's own performance and determining how to improve it.