Living Physics Portal CourseSource working group Fall 2025

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Have you developed new research-based teaching activities and/or lessons for physics for life science students? Are you interested in working with a group of peers to contribute your lesson to the Living Physics Portal Vetted Library and and prepare your Lesson manuscript for submission to the journal CourseSource? The Living Physics Portal is partnering with CourseSource to offer a semester-long working group! Apply now to join us for the Fall 2025 Living Physics Portal CourseSource working group.

The Living Physics Portal is an online environment for physics educators to find, share, and discuss free teaching materials for introductory physics for life sciences (IPLS). Registered users can contribute curricular resources and instructor resources to our Community Library and Vetted Library, including adaptations of others’ resources, and join our discussions. We accept all kinds of resources at all grain sizes, from a single activity to materials for a whole course. We encourage you to start by submitting a small activity to our Community Library. Once you get the hang of that, we invite you to contribute your polished materials to our Vetted Library to be reviewed by our editors.

CourseSource is a peer-reviewed and open-access journal that publishes tested, evidence-based undergraduate activities for biology and physics. The articles include details in a format, style, and voice that supports replicability. Publishing activities in CourseSource provides authors with recognition of the creativity, experience, and time needed to develop effective classroom materials, while also supporting the dissemination of evidence-based teaching practices. Authors can list CourseSource articles in the peer-reviewed publication section of their cv and use them as evidence for excellence in teaching.

Working group members will participate in 8 biweekly virtual sessions to collaborate with and support others and receive mentoring. The working group will support participants in first contributing to the Living Physics Portal Community Library and Vetted Library, and then writing a Lesson article manuscript, section by section, for submission to CourseSource.

Meetings will be held online every other Thursday from 3:30 – 5:00 pm Eastern Time August 14-November 20, 2025. There will be an optional in-person get-together for those who are attending the American Association of Physics Teachers summer meeting August 4-6. Space is limited to 16 participants.