Isaac Newton Teacher Resources

A portrait of Isaac Newton from the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, made available through the Smithsonian Institution's Scientific Identity Collection.

A portrait of Isaac Newton from the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, made available through the Smithsonian Institution's Scientific Identity Collection.

A portrait of Isaac Newton from the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, made available through the Smithsonian Institution's Scientific Identity Collection.

A portrait of Isaac Newton from the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, made available through the Smithsonian Institution's Scientific Identity Collection.

A portrait of Isaac Newton from the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, made available through the Smithsonian Institution's Scientific Identity Collection.

A portrait of Isaac Newton from the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, made available through the Smithsonian Institution's Scientific Identity Collection.

Assess your understanding of Newton's three laws of motion and the ability to distinguish between the three with this interactive multiple choice quiz. Receive immediate feedback to your answers.

Ever wonder what happens to light when it gets in its own way? Observe Thomas Young's double slit experiment and what we learn about the properties of light from studying it. Also describes other light experiments that could be done to...

I'm sure you've all heard about Isaac Newton and that apple that fell on his head and how that was a huge deal to our understanding of gravity. Well, let's talk about that. In this video episode of Crash Course Physics, Shini sits down...

Learn more about general relativity, Isaac Newton, and Albert Einstein with information about gravity. [8:31]

A new play looks at the rivalry--real and imagined--between scientists Isaac Newton and Robert Hooke. Hear about this story in an audio recording. [21:09]

I'm sure you've heard of Isaac Newton and maybe of some of his laws. Like, that thing about "equal and opposite reactions" and such. But what do his laws mean? And how do they help us understand the world around us? In this episode of...

This site from Fordham University is an exerpt from Newton's famous "Principia."

Read accounts of the lives and works of seventeenth and eighteenth century mathematicians, including Sir Isaac Newton and Rene Descartes.

This is part of a lesson on Newton's Laws of Motion that focuses on inertia and mass. It restates Newton's first law of motion. The lesson also gives a helpful visual description concerning friction.

Watch this narrated presentation, and take a different look at Newton's First Law of Motion, and find out what non-inertial reference frames are. [2:26]

Describes the logic behind the development of Newton's law of universal gravitation. Beginning with Johannes Kepler and his three laws of planetary motion, content walks the reader through Newton's thought process and development of this...

From the Exploratorium Museum. Includes an interactive feature in which a visitor enters their weight on earth and has their weight on other planets computed and displayed. Discusses the distinction between mass and weight and describes...

Science teacher Christopher Emdin knows how to get his students interested in science: Rap about it.

Aided by tools such as static electricity machines and Leyden jars, scientists continue their experiments into the fundamentals of magnetism and electricity.

Basics of gravity and the Law of Universal Gravitation. [15:42]

An image of "Sir Isaac Newton", created by Sir James Thornhill from 1709-12 (Oil on canvas).

This site from the McMaster University provides the full text article of Newton's work, "Representations on the Subject of Money." Newton wrote these letters while serving as head of minting operations.

Kids learn about the science behind the basic three Laws of Motion. Forces theory discovered by Isaac Newton.