Physics education research: Resources for middle school science teachers Zosia A. C. Krusberg * Department of Physics, University of Chicago 5640 S. Ellis Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637, USA Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire. W. B. Yeats Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. Jonathan Kozol Abstract This resource letter intends to provide middle school science teachers with a col- lection of resources to aid them in planning and implementing a physical science curriculum. The resources are in the form of books, websites, journals, and organi- zations. * Electronic address: zosia@uchicago.edu 1 arXiv:0903.3183v1 [physics.ed-ph] 18 Mar 2009