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South Carolina Educational Television

Etv: The Hobby Shop: The Rocket

For Students 9th - 10th
Design your own virtual rocket, and then test launch it. Watch tutorials about Newton's laws of motion and rocket basics to help you improve your rocket's performance.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Episd: Inclined Planes

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students will identify how work and force are figured out on inclined planes as well as how to apply Newton's Second Law of Motion to them.
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OpenStax

Open Stax: Linear Momentum and Force: Linear Momentum

For Students 11th - 12th
From a chapter on Linear Momentum and Collisions in a Physics textbook. This section of the chapter covers linear momentum, how momentum and force are related, how momentum fits into Newton's second law of motion, and how to calculate...
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NASA

Nasa: Drag, Lesson 4

For Students 9th - 10th
This video [12:28] shows how Newton's law of motion relates to the drag of an airplane. Watch as an instructor shows how the molecules colliding with the airplane create drag.
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NASA

Nasa: Rockets Educator Guide: How Rockets Work

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this article, learn how rockets work. Discover Newton's Law of Motion and learn how it supports rocketry.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Rocket Power

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
By making and testing simple balloon rockets, students acquire a basic understanding of Newton's third law of motion as it applies to rockets. Using balloons, string, straws and tape, they see how rockets are propelled by expelling...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Linear Momentum and Force

For Students 11th - 12th
By the end of this section, you will be able to define linear momentum, explain the relationship between linear momentum and force, state Newton's second law of motion in terms of linear momentum, and calculate linear momentum given mass...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Distance and Speed of Rolling Objects

For Students 9th - 10th
This project is an experiment in classical physics. You'll be following in Galileo's footsteps, and investigating Newton's laws of motion, but you'll be taking advantage of modern video recording technology to make your measurements. The...
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Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Third Law of Motion

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This Illinois Institute of Technology site is a lesson plan and lab that utilizes a toy rocket to investigate Newton's third law. Includes directions and practical applications.
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Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Third Law of Motion

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This Illinois Institute of Technology site provides a teacher lesson plan for an activity in which learners use spring balances and carts to investigate the action-reaction relationship for any given force. Includes directions, materials...
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Georgia State University

Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Kepler's Laws

For Students 9th - 10th
An outstanding page describing Kepler's three laws of planetary motion.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Newton's Three Laws

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This technology-based lesson will review Newton's three laws of motion. After reviewing the laws, the learners will be divided into three groups. Each group will be assigned one of Newton's laws and asked to create a presentation...
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Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Newton's Laws: Newton's Law of Inertia the Motorcyclist

For Students 9th - 10th
Without a seat belt, the rider of a motorcycle is more likely to maintain its state of motion after running into an obstacle. The animation here depicts this scenario.
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Science Struck

Science Struck: The Accomplishments of Isaac Newton

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the life of Isaac Newton and his many accomplishments in physics, mathematics, optics, and religious study, and how his discoveries helped in space research.
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University of New South Wales (Australia)

University of New South Wales: School of Physics: Physclips: Newton's Laws

For Students 9th - 10th
Physiclips thoroughly presents Newton's laws with animations and film clips.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Force and Newton's Laws: Problems and Exercises

For Students 11th - 12th
This page offers 57 problems/exercises based on the content of Chapter 4: Dynamics: Force and Newton's Laws from the AP Physics online text.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Flying With Style

For Teachers 10th - 12th
As students begin to understand the physics behind thrust, drag, and gravity and how these relate these to Newton's three laws of motion, groups assemble and launch the rockets that they designed in the associated lesson.
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Other

Bscs: Forces and Motion Content Background Document

For Teachers K - 1st
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...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating Newton's Third Law Through Film Canister Cannons

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this physics lab (best done outside), students will explore Newton's Third Law - 'For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction'. Students will fill empty 35-mm film canisters with water and part of an Alka-Seltzer tablet,...
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University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Gravity Force Lab

For Students 9th - 10th
An interactive simulation that teaches about gravitational force, Newton's Third Law, and force pairs by varying properties affect the gravitational force exerted between two objects. This simulation can either be downloaded or played...
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Other

Personal: The Laws of Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
This personal site explains the physics of angular momentum and their application to flight. Part of a much larger site on the procedures, principles, and perceptions of flight.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Momentum & Newton's Second Law of Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson explains how momentum is related to Newton's second law of motion.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Newton's 2nd Law: Inquiry Approach

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, young scholars test Isaac Newton's ideas on the nature of motion, in particular his 2nd Law. The emphasis is on the process of science, investigation, and experimentation, not the results. Students must come up with...
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Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Newton's Laws

For Students 9th - 10th
A four-lesson e-textbook covering topics in Newton's Laws. Tutorials include informational text,animations, interactive activities, and quick, interactive comprehension checks throughout the lessons.

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