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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Sliding Textbooks

For Teachers 5th - 7th
In this culminating activity of the unit which highlights how forces play a role in engineering design and material choices, students explore and apply their knowledge of forces, friction, acceleration, and gravity in a two-part experiment.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Trb 3:4 Investigation 1 I'm Falling for You!

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders will experience gravity just like Galileo did during his experiments.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Weighing In

For Teachers 3rd
Activity investigates weight and its relationship to gravity.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Trb 3:4 Investigation 4 Roller Coaster Fun

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders will design and build a roller coaster to help understand gravity.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Tubularastic Roller Coaster

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders will understand the effect of gravity on objects.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Tissue Parachutes

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders create their own parachutes to understand the concept of gravity and the effect it has on objects.
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University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: My Solar System

For Students 9th - 10th
An interactive simulation that teaches about motion, acceleration, and velocity by allowing students to build their own solar system and watch the effects of gravitational pull and how that changes with initial position, velocity, and...
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Physics for Kids: Motion Glossary and Terms

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn about glossary and terms in the science of physics and motion. Definitions for words such as momentum, force, work, energy, gravity, scalar, vector, power, and more.
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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Berkeley Lab: Four Fundamental Interactions

For Students 9th - 10th
Discussion of the four fundamental forces of nature: strong interactions, weak interactions, gravity, and electromagnetism.
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Read Works

Read Works: Famous Scientists Sir Isaac Newton

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage is a short biography of Sir Isaac Newton and his discovery of the force of gravity. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies...
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Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Hand Held Heat Engine

For Students 9th - 10th
Can you defy the force of gravity by making liquid in a toy rise and fall without turning it over? This experiment will show you how to use hand boiler that uses temperature and pressure to move liquid into the top chamber.
eBook
NASA

Nasa: The Rocket Motor

For Students 9th - 10th
An online version of a book pertaining to task of launching rockets into space and subsequently navigating them through space. The first several "chapters" (pages) describe the influence of gravity on Earth and the barriers which it...
Interactive
Concord Consortium

The Concord Consortium: Molecular Workbench: A Suspended Rope

For Students 9th - 10th
Adjust the elasticity and mass of a rope suspended between two points to see how it will be affected by gravity.
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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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University of New South Wales (Australia)

University of New South Wales: School of Physics: Physclips

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Physiclips thoroughly presents mechanics concepts with animations and film clips.
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Georgia State University

Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Elastic Potential Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Georgia State University Physics Department defines elastic potential energy and explains its origin. Provides an equation for computing elastic potential energy and an opportunity to practice solving problems with an...
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: Courses: Physics: Classical Mechanics

For Teachers 9th - 10th
College-level online course highlighting the study of classical mechanics. This course focuses on Newtonian mechanics, fluid mechanics, and kinetic gas theory. Course features include a 35 video lecture series by Walter Lewin. Also link...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Project Ideas: Popping an Ollie: Skateboards and Physics

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this science fair project, investigate the effect of speed on the distance and height of the skateboard trick the "ollie". The Science Buddies project ideas are set up consistently beginning with an abstract, objective, and...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Parachutes: Does Size Matter?

For Students 4th - 8th
Experiment with different sizes of parachutes to find out if size matters when slowing the descent of the parachute. The Science Buddies project ideas are set up consistently beginning with an abstract, objective, and introduction,...
Interactive
Vision Learning

Visionlearning: An Experiment: Acceleration During Free Fall

For Students 9th - 10th
Animated simulation re-enacts Galileo's experiment of dropping objects off the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
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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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Georgia State University

Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Potential Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Georgia State University Physics Department defines and explains the concept of potential energy. Using equations and graphics to illustrate the idea, it discusses the many types of potential energy (gravitational,...
Interactive
Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Your Weight on Other Worlds

For Students 9th - 10th
From the Exploratorium Museum. Includes an interactive feature in which a visitor enters their weight on earth and has their weight on other planets computed and displayed. Discusses the distinction between mass and weight and describes...
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Utah STEM Foundation

Utah Stem Action Center: Angry Birds Are Mad About Physics

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learn about catapults and Newton's laws of motion.

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