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Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Seeing Motion

For Students 6th - 8th
With this interactive tool and the use of a motion sensor, students will track their own motion and, as they collect data in several experiments, they will plot it on a distance-time graph. After completing the three experiments, they...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Simple Harmonic Motion: A Special Periodic Motion

For Students 11th - 12th
By the end of this section, you will be able to describe a simple harmonic oscillator and relate physical characteristics of a vibrating system to aspects of simple harmonic motion and any resulting waves.
Handout
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physics: Motion Study Guide

For Students 9th - 10th
This study guide on motion covers some key vocabulary and terms to describe motion: displacement vs. distance, acceleration, speed vs. velocity, and instantaneous vs. average. It includes graphs showing distance vs. time, velocity vs....
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BioEd Online

Bio Ed Online: Introduction to Force and Motion

For Teachers 9th - 10th
How is the motion of an object affected by forces that act on that object? Can you predict how the motion of an object will be affected by balanced and unbalanced forces? Is there a relationship between force, mass, and acceleration? In...
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University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Forces and Motion: Basics

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the forces at work when pulling against a cart, and pushing a refrigerator, crate, or person. Create an applied force and see how it makes objects move. Change friction and see how it affects the motion of objects.
Handout
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physics: Circular Motion Study Guide

For Students 9th - 10th
This study guide on circular motion covers key terms, centripetal force, linear vs. circular motion, precession, and equations. Includes four example problems with detailed solutions. The guide is available for download with free...
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OpenStax

Open Stax: Newton's Third Law of Motion: Symmetry in Forces

For Students 9th - 10th
In the following interactive students will begin to understand Newton's third law of motion and also apply it to define systems and solve problems of motion.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Kinematics in Two Dimensions: Projectile Motion

For Students 11th - 12th
By the end of this section, you will be able to identify and explain the properties of a projectile, such as acceleration due to gravity, range, maximum height, and trajectory; determine the location and velocity of a projectile at...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: 4.3 Newton's Second Law of Motion: Concept of a System

For Students 11th - 12th
By the end of this section, you will be able to define net force, external force, and system; understand Newton's second law of motion; and apply Newton's second law to determine the weight of an object.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Circular Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
In this interactive activity featuring videos adapted from the Rutgers PAER Group, students will observe examples of circular motion. Students will then find a common reason why the objects and people presented move in a circle. Includes...
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OpenStax

Open Stax: Projectile Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
The following interactive helps students understan how to identify and xplain the properties of a projectile, such as acceleration due to gravity, range, maximum height, and trajectory. They will determine the location and velocity of a...
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Vision Learning

Vision Learning: Physics: Waves and Wave Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
Instructional module focusing on waves and wave motion. Discussion includes wave theories, wave basics, and wave speed. The site also includes an interactive practice quiz and links relating to the topic.
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Motion, Forces, Energy and Electricity

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Help your students understand motion and force through the construction of catapults.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Energy of Motion

For Teachers 6th - 8th
By taking a look at the energy of motion all around us, students learn about the types of energy and their characteristics. They first learn about the two simplest forms of mechanical energy: kinetic and potential energy, as illustrated...
Activity
University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Projectile Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
An interactive simulation that teaches about kinematics, air resistance, and parabolic curve by shooting a car out of a cannon while trying to hit a target. Observe how changes in angle, initial speed, mass, air resistance, and drag...
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OpenStax

Open Stax: Newton's Second Law of Motion: Concept of a System

For Students 9th - 10th
In the following interactive students will begin to define net force, external force, and system and understand Newton's second law of motion. They will also apply Newton's second law to determine the weight of an object.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Projectile Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides alternative or additional tier-one learning options for students learning about projectile motion.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physics: Projectile Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] A large collection of resources for learning about projectile motion. Includes learning modules, simulations, videos, a study guide, and practice activities.
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Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Aristotle on Motion and Its Place in Nature

For Students 9th - 10th
Lengthy discussion of Aristotle's theory of motion, its presentation by Aquinas, and its relation to Zeno's paradoxes.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Harmonic Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students explore periodic motion and simple harmonic motion by watching video clips, manipulating interactives, and solving practice problems.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Introduction to Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
What do you think of when you hear the word motion? Are you moving right now? You may not think so, but you are. Remember, the Earth is moving around the Sun, and the Sun is moving around the Milky Way Galaxy. Everything in the universe...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Matching the Motion

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students learn about slope, determining slope, distance vs. time graphs through a motion-filled activity. Working in teams with calculators and CBL motion detectors, students attempt to match the provided graphs and equations with the...
Activity
NASA

Glenn Research Center: Newton's Laws of Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
NASA presents a concise explanation of Newton's three laws of motion. Click on the highlighted vocabulary to find more detailed and illustrated descriptions. Included is a link to a movie that shows how the laws of motion described the...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Episd: Inertial Frames and Relative Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Relative motion is always measured with a frame of reference. Evaluate a variety of frames of reference and inertial frames to understand relative motion.

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