Updated and Adapted Curriculum and Pedagogy of Physics with the Fourth Industrial Revolution and Quantum Revolution: From Waves Principles to Quantum Mechanics Fundamentals

I, as a female educator in the field of physics, pragmatically act during a complex contemporary time and attempt to become part of new initiations and updates towards a new and more sustainable future. This paper is a demonstration of a focal point where some of my curricular and pedagogical approaches, experiences, practices in the fields of education and physics, and scholars’ theories are converged to create an updated and adapted curriculum—wave-quantum-curriculum— and pedagogy while considering two revolutions: the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the quantum revolution. I illustrate my efforts and approaches for engaging and encouraging adolescents, particularly females, for the aim of enhancing their participation and interest in learning physics, not as a school subject but as required scientific knowledge and skills for 21st-century achievements. This practical paper is concluded with the results of my studies, observations, actions, and practices from past to present toward learning the fundamentals of quantum physics by adolescents in an extracurricular and enrichment after-school science program in British Columbia, Canada. Moreover, as this study is in progress, further potential research can be emanated from this paper to learn about young students’ perspectives about the science program and the designed wave-quantum-curriculum. The extent to which the planned learning path has succeeded in supporting their contemporary mathematical science learning.