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ROLLER COASTERS IN THE CLASSROOM
Students define potential and kinetic energy and explain the relationship of height to potential energy. In this roller coaster lesson students construct a model of a roller coaster which will allow them to see the basic physical...
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What is Temperature?
Students study the effects of temperature and air expansion. In this temperature lesson, students discuss temperature and participate in a role play of low energy and high energy molecules. Students then discuss their activity and...
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Flying Tube
Students investigate how a spinning paper tube generates lift as it travels forward.
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Weightlessness
Students predict the behavior of coffee in a cup while it is dropped during a demonstration. They relate their observations to the weightless conditions that astronauts experience in space and discuss the concept of free-fall.
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Earth's Orbit Lesson
Tenth graders devise a computational model to explore how the orbit of the Earth might change if its velocity were different. Using accurately recorded data, 10th graders defend a scientific argument.
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#22 Frames of Reference: The Basics
Students explore the concept of frames of reference in physics.
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What is Temperature?
Students examine how temperature is the measure of the average kinetic energy of the molecules of a substance.
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Colored Clouds
Fourth graders, in groups, examine how particles in warm water move faster than particles in cold water.
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Olympic Training Center
Students decide on an activity like running, swimming or skating for a performance analysis. They have friends or family members videotape them as they exercise, then review the video to see how they can improve their performance.
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Good Vibrations
Students demonstrate sound waves and make changes in the waves
resulting in changes in pitch. Students associate changes in pitch in various "musical instruments"with size and shape and the sound waves they produce.
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Relational Causality
Students explore the concept of Bernoullii's Principle and how it behaves. Have each student fold the piece of paper in half. Then have them place the paper like a tent on a smooth surface. Have them blow under it (they can use a straw...
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Simple Machines or Are They?
Students discover basic machines and how they make completing work easier. They identify two basic machines, the inclined plane and the lever and the functions of these simple machines.
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Did You Catch My Drift?
Students, through the use of the Curveball interactive software package, become familiar with the way in which the flow of air across or around an object affects its ability to lift, spin, and curve. After reading the explanation given...
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Persistence Forecasting
Learners study weather forecasting. In this weather instructional activity, students explore forecasting weather methods and do a forecast. Learners study weather reports and discuss the elements of a forecast. Students study the method...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigating Motion Graphing Speed
In this introduction to motion activity, students will get a personal understanding of speed and acceleration by experiencing it firsthand. Wheeled office chairs or other cart like devices are used to give one student a ride as a fellow...
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: 1 D Kinematics: Describe Motion With Speed & Velocity Pdf
A printable, high-school level worksheet with physics problems which allows students to practice describing motion using speed and velocity.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Simple Harmonic Motion: Find Speed, Velocity, Displace From Graphs
Practice finding speed, velocity, and distance traveled for an oscillator from graphs of simple harmonic motion.
Vision Learning
Vision Learning: Physics: Waves and Wave Motion
Instructional module focusing on waves and wave motion. Discussion includes wave theories, wave basics, and wave speed. The site also includes an interactive practice quiz and links relating to the topic.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Introduction to Motion
What do you think of when you hear the word motion? Are you moving right now? You may not think so, but you are. Remember, the Earth is moving around the Sun, and the Sun is moving around the Milky Way Galaxy. Everything in the universe...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Objects in Motion
This resource provides flexible alternate or additional learning activities for students learning about the concepts of distance, speed, and acceleration.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Rules of Forces and Motion
With this hands-on lesson, help students understand force, gravity, friction, and speed. Students will also learn how each of these concepts affects the another.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physics: Motion Study Guide
This study guide on motion covers some key vocabulary and terms to describe motion: displacement vs. distance, acceleration, speed vs. velocity, and instantaneous vs. average. It includes graphs showing distance vs. time, velocity vs....
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physics: Circular Motion Study Guide
This study guide on circular motion covers key terms, centripetal force, linear vs. circular motion, precession, and equations. Includes four example problems with detailed solutions. The guide is available for download with free...
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