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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Activity: Frictional Force Experiment

For Students 9th - 10th
A lesson about friction can be found on this website. Students will experiment to see how motion and frictional force affect the game of football.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Energy of Motion

For Teachers 6th - 8th
By taking a look at the energy of motion all around us, students learn about the types of energy and their characteristics. They first learn about the two simplest forms of mechanical energy: kinetic and potential energy, as illustrated...
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University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Forces and Motion: Basics

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the forces at work when pulling against a cart, and pushing a refrigerator, crate, or person. Create an applied force and see how it makes objects move. Change friction and see how it affects the motion of objects.
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Cornell University

Cornell University: Cornell Center for Materials Research: Friction

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A collection of experiments where students can learn about how friction works and affects the physical world. At the end, students design a tortoise to win by slowing it down using friction. Lesson includes explanation of the concept of...
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University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Forces and Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the forces at work when you try to push a filing cabinet. Create an applied force and see the resulting friction force and total force acting on the cabinet. Charts show the forces, position, velocity, and acceleration vs. time.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Friction: Lesson 4

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson will introduce the concept of friction and explain how it can affect forces. It is 4 of 5 in the series titled "Friction."
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BBC

Bbc Schools: Ks2 Bitesize: Science: Physical Processes: Friction

For Students 3rd - 5th
Use your knowledge about friction to help Carrie get to the Invigatron before someone steals it. Following the activity, read more about friction and resistance, and then take a quick quiz to check for understanding.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Types of Friction

For Students 7th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The four types of friction and how they act on objects.
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Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Circular and Satellite Motion: Roller Coaster Model

For Students 9th - 10th
An interactive playground for students to explore the physics of roller coasters. Learners investigate by changing the variables of force, velocity, friction, and vectors. Energy bar charts are displayed as the coaster car moves along...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Friction: Lesson 2

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson will introduce the concept of friction and explain how it can affect forces. It is 2 of 5 in the series titled "Friction."
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Friction: Lesson 3

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson will introduce the concept of friction and explain how it can affect forces. It is 3 of 5 in the series titled "Friction."
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc:investigating Friction:investigate How the Force of Friction Opposes Motion

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this investigation, young scholars will learn that speed, velocity, and changes in velocity are the result of the action of forces on objects such as friction. They will be able to explain how the force of friction opposes motion by...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Inertia: An Object in Motion Will Tend to Stay in Motion

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity is a take off of Galileo's experiment with the inclined planes to show that an object in motion would stay in a straight line motion if no outside forces acted were acting on it. In this version, students will roll a ball...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Frictional Forces

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity, students' will use a Dual range force sensor to measure the force required to pull a block across different surfaces. They will examine the results to see when more force is needed to move the block and understand the...
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Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Motion on Incline Level 2

For Students 9th - 10th
Students must calculate the distance an object will move up an incline using Newton's Laws. Mass, angle, gravitational field, coefficient of friction and initial speed will be generated randomly.
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Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Motion on Incline Level 3

For Students 9th - 10th
Students must calculate the speed of a block when it returns to its original location on an incline using Newton's Laws. Mass, angle, gravitational field, coefficient of friction and initial speed will be generated randomly.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating Projectile Motion: Creating a Catapult

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity is for 9th grade physical science students. It begins with an inquiry-based activity using a projectile motion computer simulation. It culminates with students building a catapult; applying and connecting science knowledge...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Newton's Second: Having a Ball With Motion

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students will create a gravity ball launcher to demonstrate their understanding of mass, force, momentum, and motion. The students will use critical thinking, measurement, and observation and analysis of data to make changes and improve...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating Motion: What Causes Objects to Move?

For Teachers K - 1st
Students will have an opportunity to determine what makes everyday objects move. Students will be given objects and asked to make predictions on how far each object will move after they blow on it. Then they will measure the distance and...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: The Force of Friction

For Teachers 6th - 9th
In the first of two lessons of this curricular unit, students are introduced to the concept of friction as a force that impedes motion when two surfaces are in contact. Student teams use spring scales to drag objects, such as a ceramic...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Newton's Second Law: Constant Force Applied to a Skateboarder

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lab activity, students will become familiar with Newton's 2nd Law of Motion. By investigating the motion of different skateboarders pulled with a variety of constant force values, they will discover that bodies acted on by a...
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Forces and Motion: Acceleration

For Students 3rd - 7th
A video and a short quiz on acceleration.
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My Science Site

Forces and Motion [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This resource provides reproducibles that aide in student learning of force and motion. Also offers hands-on and cooperative learning activity ideas as well as an ESL/ELD activity. This resource is in PDF form; requires Adobe Reader.
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Physics4kids

Physics 4 Kids: Motion/mechanics Overview Quiz

For Students 9th - 10th
Take this ten question multiple choice quiz on motion and mechanics.

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