Activity-Based Physics
The University of Maryland's Physics Education Research Group has a website dedicated to a multi-university project designed to reform physics education: Activity-Based Physics. The site includes ideas, papers, and tutorials from other educators that will help physics instructors brainstorm about creative ways to teach physics.
From the website:
Activity-Based Physics is a multi-university project to sustain and enhance current efforts to render introductory physics courses more effective and exciting at both the secondary and college level. This program represents a multi-university collaborative effort by a team of educational reformers to use the outcomes of physics education research along with flexible computer tools to promote activity-based models of physics instruction. This multifaceted program includes the refinement of existing written materials, apparatus, instructional techniques, and computer software and hardware; the creation of new instructional materials and approaches; and dissemination. The refinement and development of new instructional strategies and materials will be informed by a comprehensive program of classroom testing and educational research.
Check out the website and see some interesting new ideas.