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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Newton's First Law

For Students 9th - 10th
Within this resource, you will learn more about Newton's first law and real-world applications of this law.
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Car Collision Testing & Tradeoffs: Don't Crack Humpty

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Student groups are provided with a generic car base on which to design a device/enclosure to protect an egg as it rolls down a ramp at increasing slopes. During this activity, student teams design, build and test their prototype...
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City College of New York

City Technology: Introduction to Enerjeeps

For Students 3rd - 8th
A unit providing opportunity for students to explore circuits and switches through homemade battery powered cars.
Handout
Science Struck

Science Struck: Guide to Free Body Diagrams in Physics

For Students 9th - 10th
A detailed explanation of the different types of forces that can be applied to an object and how to represent them in a free body diagram. Includes examples and some practice problems to try, with solutions provided.
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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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Utah Education Network

Uen: Our Friend, the Sun

For Teachers 3rd
Understand the role of the sun as the source of heat and light for living things on earth.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Rolling Along

For Teachers 3rd
Learn how wheels and axles help with force and motion.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Forces: Push and Pull

For Teachers 1st
Learn why every force is a push or a pull.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Managing Heat

For Teachers 3rd
Understand the role of the sun as the source of heat and light for living things on earth.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Paper Roller Coasters: Kinetic and Potential Energy

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this lesson, your learners will learn about kinetic and potential energy as they build their own roller coasters from simple classroom materials.
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Children's Museum

The Children's Museum of Indianapolis: Build a Parachute

For Teachers K - 1st
Learners create a parachute to explore how air pushes up against an object and slows it down as it falls.
Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: How Does a Hovercraft Hover?

For Students 9th - 10th
In this activity, you will get to build your own mini hovercraft. How will different amounts of air in the balloon affect how long the hovercraft hovers?
Lesson Plan
TryEngineering

Try Engineering: Engineered Sports

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students work in teams to investigate how aerospace engineering relates to sports, especially golf ball design and the physics of bounce. They use this information to determine whether these aerospace principles can be applied to...
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Other

Duke: Center for Inquiry Based Learning

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Duke University has established the Center for Inquiry-Based Learning. It serves to enhance math and science lessons. Click on Resources for good examples of Inquiry-based lesson plans.
Handout
NASA

Planetary Geodynamics Laboratory: Ocean Tides and the Earth's Rotation

For Students 9th - 10th
An explanation of the effect that the tides have on the Earth's rotation.
Activity
Museum of Science

Museum of Science and Industry: Online Science: Identify Your Fingerprints

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Become a forensic investigator, and follow these simple step-by-step instructions to take, examine, and identify your fingerprints.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Practice With Inclined Planes

For Students 9th - 10th
A video presentation providing example problems on finding the net force acting on objects at rest or sliding across inclined planes. [13:08]
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Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Newton's Law System With 3 Masses

For Students 9th - 10th
Students must find out different things for a series of 3 objects moving as a system.
eBook
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Work and Energy: Energy Transformation Downhill Skiing

For Students 9th - 10th
The intricate relationship between work and mechanical energy is depicted in the animation for students to be able to visualize.
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Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Lightning

For Students 9th - 10th
In this interactive tutorial students will explore what is the cause and mechanism associated with lightning strikes, They will investiage how lightning rods serve to protect buildings from the devastating effects of a lightning strikes....
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BBC

Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: What Is Electric Charge? Ocr 21 C

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on electric charges. Electric current is the flow of electric charge. Some insulating materials become electrically charged when they are rubbed together. A substance that gains electrons becomes negatively charged,...
eBook
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Newton's Laws: Finding Individual Forces

For Students 9th - 10th
Through illustrated examples and interactive practice problems, students find the value of forces acting upon objects using force equations.
Handout
NASA

Nasa: Flight: What Is Drag?

For Students 9th - 10th
Understand the concept of drag and find out how it affects the movement of airplanes.
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South Carolina Educational Television

South Caroline Etv Commission: Drag | Nasa Online

For Students 9th - 10th
If you have ever put your hand outside the window of a moving car, you have experienced drag. Watch the simulation.

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