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If you're staring down the barrel of a new school year—or perhaps just a new semester—and wondering how you're going to get your students to care about kinematics, forces, and circuits, you are not alone. Teaching high school physics is a unique challenge. You aren't just teaching facts; you're teaching a completely new way of looking at the universe, wrapped in a layer of math that many students find intimidating. But here is the good news: when physics clicks for a student, it is magic. The moment they realize that the same equations governing a falling apple also govern the...