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Number Cube with Dots

For Students Pre-K - 3rd Standards
Eliminate the noise of dice bouncing on desk tops with a number cube printable. After a few cuts, some folds, and a little glue, you'll have paper dice that can be used to engage your class in a number of...
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Teacher's Corner

Seuss Visualizing

For Students 2nd - 6th Standards
Only one thing can compare to the whimsy of Dr. Seuss: a child's imagination. Pair the bouncing narrative of a Dr. Seuss book with your learner's illustrations in a fun reading activity. As you read a selected passage, your class draws...
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PhET

Rutherford Scattering

For Students 9th - Higher Ed Standards
Rutherford performed his famous experiment in 1907 with Marsden, showing the true atomic structure. This interactive simulation compares Rutherford's historical experiment to the Plum pudding model of the atom. In both models, alpha...
Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Car Collision

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
When a car crashes into a wall, does it just stop or does it bounce or roll backwards? A simulation relates velocity, kinetic energy, momentum, and restitution to answer this question. Scholars apply their knowledge through...
Interactive
Concord Consortium

Diffusion of a Drop

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
Trying to learn through diffusion rather than simply studying the material rarely works for scholars. This simulation helps make learning diffusion fun. Pupils add a drop of dye to water and observe the diffusion as the molecules bounce...
Interactive
Concord Consortium

Spring and Mass

For Students 9th - 12th
Here's a resource with more bounce for the ounce! Engage your physical science class with an interesting interactive that allows individuals to perform tests with a mass attached to a spring. Participants can customize the scenario by...
Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Mental Math to Multiply by Whole Number Powers of Ten: The Rule for Tens

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Eight questions challenge scholars to use mental math while multiplying whole numbers by powers of 10. A tool with bouncing decimals demonstrates how and where the decimal moves. Question types include several multiple-choice, a...
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Radford University

Ping Pong Packing

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Bounce off some ideas to reduce the amount of wasted space. Teams work together to determine the best size and shape of container to package a large order of ping pong balls. Groups are to design the container to reduce the amount of...
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Health Smart Virginia

Taking Turns

For Teachers K
Scholars work cooperatively, taking turns, to boost peer relationships and fairness. Rotating through five stations, players practice tossing, bouncing, push-ups, and working together to clean up fallen equipment, then...
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Curated OER

Floor Pong

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Set up small courts and use ping pong paddles to practice hand-eye coordination.  Use the same rules as if you were playing on a ping pong table or mix up the rules and allow the ball to bounce twice. Sounds like a fun way to...
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Curated OER

Bocce Ball - Lesson 6

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Bocce ball - lesson 6 takes the game indoors and makes some adaptations. Use bean bags or juggling balls that won't bounce too much to play indoors. The focus is on throwing and using good form. The strategy will be slightly different...
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Curated OER

Wheelchair Basketball

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
The class practices bounce passes and chest passes to improve their basketball skills. They get to play a modified basketball game with no dribbling allowed. You could incorporate several modifications into this lesson to accomodate...
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Curated OER

TIMS, The Bouncing Ball: Math, Science, Measurement, Graphs, Variables

For Teachers 4th - 10th
Learners determine the exact relationship between the height from which a ball is dropped and the distance that it rebounds.
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Curated OER

Motion of a Bouncing Ball

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders complete a unit of lessons on derivatives as they are applied to motion. They observe and discuss demonstrations, conduct an experiment involving a motion sensor, graph and analyze the results, and summarize their findings.
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Curated OER

Light Bounce

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students solve problems involving triangles. In this geometry lesson, students apply properties of triangles to find the missing angles and sides. They identify angles of parallel lines cut by a transversal.
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Curated OER

Balloon Ball Bounce

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Young scholars explore the rebound of balls. In this energy conversion lesson, students explore the physics behind the rebound of various types of sports balls. Through the experimental design process using balloons, young scholars...
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Curated OER

Comprehension: The Bouncing Ball

For Students 1st
In this comprehension:  the bounding ball learning exercise, student color the picture, read the sentence, answer 3 multiple choice questions about the story, trace and write the word ball.
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Curated OER

Bounce And Sing Introduction

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students sing and participate in doing a melodic and rhythmic activity to be introduced to their teacher and each other.
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Curated OER

Bouncing Balls

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students work together to examine how different types of balls react to colliding with different surfaces. They discover the difference between elastic and inelastic collisions. They practice calculating momentum as well.
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Curated OER

Dancing & Bouncing with Piglet

For Teachers K - 1st
Students complete a variety of activities related to the difference between the /b/ and /d/ sounds. They examine picture cards and identify which pictures start with B or D, and recite two tongue twisters. Students write the letters B...
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Curated OER

Bouncing and Dancing with B and D

For Teachers K - 1st
Students explore the differences between the letters b and d. They practice seeing the letters and hearing the sounds with words and tongue twisters. They practice letter formation for both letters and listen to the book, The...
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Curated OER

Speedball - Lesson 3 - Drop Kick

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Day 3 of the speedball unit covers the drop kick. Teach these youngsters the art of performing a drop kick with a soccer ball. Remember the ball needs to hit the ground and bounce to be a drop kick. If the ball doesn't hit the ground...
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Curated OER

Urban Heat Islands: An Introduction to Energy Transfer and Transformation

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Elementary school physical scientists explore kinetic mechanical energy by dropping a golf ball on different surfaces. They discuss how human made materials might react to light differently from nature made materials. This lesson plan...
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Curated OER

How many can you count?

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Counting objects up to 16 can be cute and fun. Kids count objects as they appear on the screen, bouncing apples, racing cars, and pop up puppies make this a charming addition to your early learning math tool chest. 

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