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Physics Games

Physic Games: Draw Dash

For Students 3rd - 8th
Use your powers to guide your character to the portal. Using magic ink help your character bounce off objects and avoid spikes to make it to the portal.
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Microsoft

Microsoft: New Microsoft Data Shows Improved Civility Online, Driven by Teens

For Students 9th - 10th
The global Microsoft Digital Civility Index (DCI) improved in 2020, bouncing back from its lowest reading in four years, even as Covid-19 upended the world. A feeling of solidarity during the pandemic among people in some regions, as...
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ABCya

Ab Cya: Snoring Pirates

For Students 3rd - 6th
The snoring elephant is back again in Snoring Pirates. Help the owl and pirate friends to wake up the elephant in this fun problem solving game for kids. Players will need to plan ahead and roll, rock, bounce, and bump to win all the...
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ABCya

Ab Cya: Snoring

For Students 3rd - 6th
Our friends cannot sleep because the elephant is snoring! Help the owl and friends to wake up the elephant in this fun problem solving game for kids. Players will need to plan ahead and roll, rock, bounce, and bump to win all the levels...
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ABCya

Ab Cya: Sparkanoid

For Students K - 1st
Each level presents a new challenge in this outer space Brakeout game! Bounce the ball off your pad to destroy the blocks. Gather powerful boosts and destroy your enemies. Can you clear the field without losing the ball or being hit by...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Program Your Own Covid 19 Simulator With Scratch

For Students 9th - 10th
This activity uses the kid-friendly programming language Scratch to write a simulation that uses bouncing dots to represent healthy and sick people. The simulation will show how we can take measures to slow the spread of a transmissible...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Animation 101

For Students 9th - 10th
Prove that you've successfully animated a bouncing ball.
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National Archives (UK)

British National Archives: Dambusters

For Students 9th - 10th
An online exhibit of the men and planes that flew mission to destroy Germany's dams during World War II.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Activity 3: Lighting an Orange (Virtual)

For Students 9th - 10th
This activity focuses on understanding how to light a virtual orange. It is in the format of an assessment.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Linear Interpolation

For Students 9th - 10th
In this 7-problem quiz/practice, calculate the position of a point using linear interpolation.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Save Your Animation

For Students 9th - 10th
Make and save your own animation! Use the program below to build your animation. Now you can move the ball anywhere as well as rotate it. Use the x and y avars to position the ball. Use the s avar to control the stretch and squash, and...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Hands on Activity: Animating Luxo Jr.

For Students 4th - 8th
Begin your career as an animator now! This lesson is a series of hand-drawn challenges which will introduce some basic animation principles and get you thinking about the physics of motion.
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Curated OER

Bouncing Back

For Students 9th - 10th
Site offers current information on Sondheim shows as well as local shows, merchandise, chat, columns about theater, features and updates. Also includes a biography of Sondheim.
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California State University

Fantasy Food Groups Fun Land

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Come slide down chocolate mudslides and bounce on marshmallows in this crazy imaginary art lesson. Students work to create a fantasy land made entirely of different foods. Students are encouraged to use knowledge of the six food groups...
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Journey to Mars: Nasa's Way to Mars

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Investigate the invention of the Pathfinder rover's landing apparatus by designing, constructing and testing an original model of a bouncing lander. Compete to see which landers work best to keep the cargo from breaking.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Mn Step: Reflection Race: Exploring Reflection of Light

For Teachers 9th - 10th
An interesting and engaging activity where students work in groups with a laser pointer and small mirrors. They must use their knowledge of angles of reflection to bounce the laser beam from mirror to mirror until it hits a target at the...
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Other

Weather Questions: How Does Weather Radar Work?

For Students 9th - 10th
Radar (which stands for RAdio Detection And Ranging) transmits microwaves in a focused beam. Some of this microwave energy bounces off of objects and returns to the radar to be measured. The radar sends pulses of energy, rather than a...
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Science Italian Style: Long Distance Doc

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Explore human skills needed for remote surgeries, such as a surgeon's coordination and fine motor skills. Emulate communication between satellites in space by bouncing signals from a TV remote control off reflective surfaces.
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: The Frontiers Decade: Decade in Space

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Investigate the invention of the Pathfinder rover's landing apparatus by designing, constructing and testing an original model of a bouncing lander. Compete to see which landers work best to keep the cargo from breaking.
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Other

Confederation of Oregon School Administrators: Waves and Their Applications

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Every second billions of waves-sound waves, radio waves, light waves-pass through or bounce off our bodies. Over time people have developed technologies that make use of these natural phenomena to accomplish their goals such as creating...
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Basketball for Kids: Passing the Ball

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn about passing the ball in basketball. Two-handed chest pass, overhead pass, and bounce pass.
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Physics Central

Physics Central: Physics Buzz Blog : The Physics of Football

For Students 9th - 10th
Football is a sport almost made for physicists. Newton's three laws of motion are at work during every play and little things like the unpredictable bounce of the "prolate spheroid" - the football - can throw kinks into a game no...
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Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia Britannica: Louis Jordan

For Students 9th - 10th
This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Louis Jordan, an American saxophonist-singer prominent in the 1940s and '50s who was a seminal figure in the development of both rhythm and blues and rock and roll. The bouncing, rhythmic...
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Kidport

Kidport: Light

For Students 3rd - 6th
Did you know that light is a form of energy and always travels in a straight line? Discover some more interesting facts about light.

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