Utah Education Network
Uen: Weighing In
Activity investigates weight and its relationship to gravity.
Utah Education Network
Uen: It's a Weighty Matter
Third graders will understand weight, mass, and gravity.
Utah Education Network
Uen: The Larger It Is the Harder It Falls
Understand the concept of force and the effect it has on the motion of objects.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Rollin' On
Activity shows how gravity affects the motion of an object rolling up or down a hill.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Berkeley Lab: The Particle Adventure
Visit this site for an interactive tour of the atom and all aspects of particle physics. View the animations available with almost every description on this site. A great place for the fundamentals of particles and forces including a...
Vision Learning
Visionlearning: Mechanics: Gravity: Newtonian Relationships
Explanation of how astronomers and scientist developed the current theories of gravity.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Trb 3:4 Investigation 3 Draggin' Me Down
Discover that gravity affects objects that they roll up a ramp.
Utah State Office of Education
Utah Science: May the Force Stay With You!
What goes up must come down. Check out these activities to enhance understanding gravity.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: The Math Behind Michael Jordan's Legendary Hang Time
Learn the affect of gravitational acceleration by calculating what Michael Jordan's hang time would be if he played basketball elsewhere in the universe.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Mr. And Miss Big Feet
Gravity is affected by the magnitude or size of the gravitational force between two objects and the masses and distance between them.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Trb 3:4 Investigation 4 Roller Coaster Fun
Third graders will design and build a roller coaster to help understand gravity.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Tubularastic Roller Coaster
Third graders will understand the effect of gravity on objects.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Trb 3:4 Investigation 2 Jump
Third graders will learn that gravity has more of a pulling force with heavy objects than light objects.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Tissue Parachutes
Third graders create their own parachutes to understand the concept of gravity and the effect it has on objects.
Utah STEM Foundation
Utah Stem Action Center: Angry Birds Are Mad About Physics
Learn about catapults and Newton's laws of motion.
South Carolina Educational Television
Know It All: Lift | Nasa Online
An upward force called lift acts on the airplane and opposes the downward forces of gravity. The lift force allows the airplane to get off the ground and stay in the air. Watch the simulation to see how this works.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: 3 M Young Scientist Lab: Pie Pan Accelerometer
A metal pie pan demonstrates the acceleration of gravity.
Other
Bscs: Forces and Motion Content Background Document
In this document, we will try to answer a fundamental question of physical science, "Why do things start to move, slow down, speed up, stop moving or change direction?" In answering these core questions we can develop concepts that can...
Children's Museum
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis: Curious Scientific Investigators: Flight Adventures
Students will make paper rockets, parachutes, and foam gliders to experience how objects move through the air. Explore topics such as thrust, weight, gravity, force, and lift through fun activities and stories and cutting-edge work done...
NASA
Nasa: Newton's Theory of "Universal Gravitation"
This site, which is provided for by NASA, discusses the thinking which led Newton to understand universal gravitation.
NASA
Nasa: Kepler and His Laws
This site from NASA provides biographical details about the lives of Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler. Discusses Kepler's successes at developing laws of planeatry motion. States the three laws and discusses each one individually....
Curated OER
Zona Land: Mechanics and Vectors
An exceptional tutorial on the topic of vectors that offers many helpful graphics, some of which are interactive.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Open Course Ware: Courses: Physics: Introduction to Special Relativity
College-level electrical physics course highlighting Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity. Course introduces the physics of Lorentz contraction, time dilation, the "twin paradox", and E=mc2. Course features suggested readings,...