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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Freefall Review

For Students 9th - 10th
Review the key concepts and skills for acceleration due to gravity, including analyzing motion of objects in freefall.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: The World's Fastest Mammal

For Students 9th - 10th
Read this passage and study the graphics to complete a five-question quiz that will test your knowledge on acceleration.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Concussions in Professional Athletes

For Students 9th - 10th
Read this passage and study the graphic to complete a five-question quiz that will test your knowledge on acceleration to reduce concussions in professional athletes.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Acceleration and Velocity

For Students 9th - 10th
This site includes practice using the acceleration equation to solve for acceleration, time, and initial or final velocity.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Rocket Sled

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the relationship between thrust, drag, friction, weight, and acceleration in this interactive simulation and see if you can make the sled stop on a particular rock
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Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physics Simulation: Oscillations Simulation

For Students 9th - 10th
Use this interactive to learn the physics behind oscillation.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Acceleration Questions

For Students 9th - 10th
Prepare for the MCAT with these acceleration questions.
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: What Is Newton's Second Law?

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the fact that forces cause acceleration in this article about Newton's Second Law. Includes examples and worked examples of problems.
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Other

Nearpod: Distance Time Graphs

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this lesson on distance-time graphs, students will understand graphing by analyzing distance-time graphs.
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Website
MadSci Network

The Mad Scientist Network: Bouncing Rubber Ball

For Students 9th - 10th
A question and answer format is used to relate elastic potential energy to the bounce of a rubber ball. Explanation of this simple phenomenon is thorough, complete, and free of trite statements.
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Handout
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Berkeley Lab: Cyclotron

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the cyclotron, a particle accelerator invented in 1929 by Ernest O. Lawrence.
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Online Course
Cosmo Learning

Cosmo Learning: Mechanics of Solids

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of video lectures from a course introducing students to the mechanics of solids. Webpage includes forty-one lectures from a professor at the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning. Lectures vary in length and...
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Online Course
Cosmo Learning

Cosmo Learning: Physics 240: Science and Engineering I

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of video lectures from a physics for science and engineering course taught at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. The course discusses the concepts of mechanics, wave motion, sound, heat and thermodynamics in thirty-five...
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Defying Gravity

For Students 9th - 10th
Students are asked how acceleration, mass, momentum and velocity are involved in mountain boarding. [0:32]
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Walter Fendt

Walter Fendt: Motion With Constant Acceleration

For Students 9th - 10th
An applet shows a car moving with constant acceleration. You get to start and stop the demo. Three diagrams illustrate the position, velocity, and acceleration/versus time.
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Activity
University of Maryland

Thinking Problems in Oscillations and Waves

For Students 9th - 10th
A series of thought-provoking, multichoice questions from the University of Maryland on the topic of oscillations and waves. Equations for calculating the period of motion for masses on springs, pendulums, sounds, and waves on a string...
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Mn Step: Slow the Ball

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
For this experiment, students will design a track for a rolling ball to try to have the longest roll time possible. They will, in the process, apply their understanding of kinetic and potential energy, and acceleration and deceleration.
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Activity
My Science Site

Bj's Science: Take a Walk! [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity students literally walk through this activity calculating acceleration. Also, students calculate speed, graph acceleration, as well as do statistical data analysis. This resource is in PDF form; requires Adobe Reader.
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Handout
Upper Canada District School Board

Tom Stretton's Chemistry Pages: Dynamics Bodies in Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
Through an online slide-show format, learn about the physics of motion, including Newton's laws of motion.
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Website
PBS

Pbs: Nova: Top Gun Over Moscow

For Students 9th - 10th
An online exhibit investigating the sensations experienced by a cockpit pilot in a Russian aircraft. Focuses on G-forces and apparent weightlessness.
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Activity
Physics World

Physics World: Contextual Physics in Ocean Park

For Students 9th - 10th
After downloading the "Motion Video Analysis" software, users can collect data about moving object's position from digital movie clips. This collection of data will allow them to plot motion graphs and draw conclusions about physics in...
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Website
NASA

Nasa: Beginner's Guide to Aerodynamics

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from NASA uses a colorful graphic to illustrate why objects reach terminal velocity. Provides equation for the terminal velocity of an object. Graphic is accompanied by a simple explanation.
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Middle School Science

Middle School Science: Motion Crossword Puzzle

For Students 9th - 10th
Let your students have a little fun and reinforce their learning of motion-related concepts at the same time.
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Activity
Middle School Science

Middle School Science: Motion Notes

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Personal site in which a teacher outlines a unit on motion. Probes through topics such as average speed, velocity, acceleration, speed, deceleration, force and more.