Describes various aspects of high school physics in modern China, including classroom instruction, interdistrict competitions, extracurricular studies, content of the curriculum, and test procedures. (CS)

Describes a teaching experiment that uses the Learning Cycle to achieve the reorientation of physics' students conceptual frameworks away from commonsense perspectives toward scientifically rigorous outlooks. Uses Archimedes' principle as the content topic while using the Learning Cycle to remove students' nonscientific preconceptions. (JRH)