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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Graphing Your Motion

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students use a Motion Detector to measure distance and velocity. Students prepare graphs of motion and analyze them. They compare and match graphs of distance versus time and velocity versus time.
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Hawaiian Islands: Volcano Ages, Hotspots and Plate Motion

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The ages of volcanic rocks are used to investigate speed of motion of the Pacific plate, to analyze the distinctive bend in the chain, and to consider the age data in the context of a hotspot model of formation.
Unit Plan
BBC

Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Describing Motion Aqa

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on Distance-time graphs; the gradient of a distance-time graph represents the speed of an object.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Need for Speed Adventure 2

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students use a radio controlled car and weights to record the time of each run and determine velocity. They represent motion graphically and determine the relationship between speed, time, and weight. Students create and interpret...
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Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Finding Speed of a Satellite

For Students 9th - 10th
Students must determine speed of a satellite by timing the satellite for part of its orbit. Students must also determine the period of the orbit based on their timing.
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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.
Activity
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...
Website
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Average vs.instantaneous Speed

For Students 3rd - 8th
This is an animation illustrating the distinction between the average speed and the instantaneous speed for any given motion.
Article
Physics4kids

Physics 4 Kids: Mechanics and Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
Motion is one of the key topics in physics. Everything in the universe moves. It might only be a small amount of movement and very very slow, but movement does happen. Don't forget that even if you appear to be standing still, the Earth...
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Other

Westerville District: Measuring Motion

For Students 6th - 8th
Learn about motion and how it is defined by a reference point.
Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Plix: Motion: Position Time Graphs

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Drag the red dot to draw a position-time graph for a sprinter with constant speed.
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Other

Ward's Science: Speedy Energy

For Teachers 4th - 6th
This is an interactive inquiry where students will investigate the speed of an object and the energy it exerts as it crashes into other objects. Students will understand that the more speed an object has, the more energy it has in a...
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Displacement During Constant Acceleration

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students solve problems involving displacement, distance, velocity, speed, and acceleration, and then explore problems and graphs involving one-dimensional motion.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Episd: Velocity 1

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Using mathematic equations for speed and velocity students will breakdown one dimensional motion.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Collision Course (Part 2)

For Teachers 4th - 5th
This is part 2 of a two-part lesson on understanding how speed changes when two objects collide. Students will conduct an experiment, collect data, and draw conclusions about the changes in energy that occur when objects collide....
Interactive
University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Ladybug Motion 2 D

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about position, velocity, and acceleration vectors by moving the ladybug. Set the position, velocity, or acceleration, and see how the vectors change.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Physics 1: One Dimensional Kinematics

For Students 9th - 10th
Using only two of our fundamental units, time and displacement students will build a framework to predict the motion of objects, starting with one dimensional motion.
Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12 Exploration Series: Simulations: Physics: Stadium Wave

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A simulation that uses the classic sports stadium "wave" to learn about concepts important to wave motion and interference.
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Other

Seafriends Marine Conservation and Education Centre: Oceanography: Waves

For Students 9th - 10th
A very detailed article on the characteristics of waves and wave behavior. It discusses the influence waves have on the marine environment and the global climate, the physics of wave motion, the interactions between waves and wind, wave...
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Using Velocity and Acceleration Vectors to Interpret the Motion of a Car

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students understand that vectors have both magnitude and direction components as they investigate velocity and acceleration vectors.
Handout
Georgia State University

Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Wave Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
Two wave graphs depicting a sine wave and relating the various characteristics (wavelength, amplitude, frequency, and period) of a wave to each other. The site includes an interactive JavaScript form in which the visitor enters one...
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Science: Antarctica: Penguins: What Is Motion?

For Students 3rd - 5th
What do you know about Emperor penguins? Ernie is researching them and their migration across the continent.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: What's Up With All This Traffic?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Expanding on the topic of objects in motion covering Newton's laws of motion, acceleration and velocity, which are taught starting in third grade, students are introduced to new concepts of speed, density, level of service (LOS) (quality...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Episd: Physics: Kinematics

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] An online chapter focused on motion and the shapes it takes. Topics range from speed and velocity to acceleration and free fall. Find detailed visuals, learning...

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