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Henry Ford Museum

Physics, Technology and Engineering in Automobile Racing

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Start your engines! This five-lesson unit introduces physics and Newton's laws through automobile racing. Each lesson includes background information, a student worksheet, and an answer key. There are also culminating...
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New York City Department of Education

Straw Rockets

For Teachers 7th - 8th Standards
Scholars become rocket scientists as they take off on a journey exploring Newton's laws of motion. After learning the laws of motion, pupils design their own investigations using straw rockets. They highlight their literacy skills in a...
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University of Florida

Understanding Car Crashes: It's Basic Physics!

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Make an impact on young physicists with this fun collection of resources. After first watching a video and taking notes on the physics of car crashes, students go on to complete a series of activities that explore the...
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Chicago Children's Museum

Simple Machines: Force and Motion

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
Get things moving with this elementary science unit on simple machines. Through a series of nine lessons including teacher demonstrations, hands-on activities, and science experiments, young scientists learn about forces, motion,...
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Columbus City Schools

The Magic of Energy: A Disappearing Act?

For Teachers 7th Standards
Using the 5E method for teaching about kinetic energy, potential energy, and conservation of energy, this two-week unit with many videos and possible extensions is sure to keep pupils engaged as they are learning.
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College Board

AP Physics 1 and 2 Inquiry-Based Lab Investigations

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
Have you ever wondered what type of AP Physics investigations The College Board wants? This is the guide for you! Sixteen labs covering both Physics I and II will get you started and inspire you to meet the requirement of 25 percent of...
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Norwich Institute for Language Education

Simple Machines

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
Planning a unit on simple machines? Save some time and energy with this collection of lessons and activities that explores how these devices are used in the real world to make life a little easier. 
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Columbus City Schools

May the Force Be with You

For Students 8th Standards
You won't have to force your classes to complete these engaging activities! Through exploration, young scientists learn that force has both magnitude and direction. They draw force diagrams, investigate force models, and complete a...
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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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OpenStax

Open Stax: Further Applications of Newton's Laws of Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
In the following interactive students will begin to apply problem-solving techniques to solve for quantities in more complex systems of forces. They will also integrate concepts from kinematics to solve problems using Newton's laws of...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Newton's Law of Inertia

For Students 9th - 10th
Review Newton's First Law of Motion in this interactive learning module.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Newton's Law of Action Reaction

For Students 9th - 10th
Understand Newton's Third Law the law of action-reaction in this tutorial.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Newton's Laws of Motion and Projectiles

For Students 9th - 10th
Through informational text, interactive activities, practice problems, online labs, virtual simulations, and video clips, students learn about Newton's Laws of Motion.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Force and Newton's Laws: Section Summary

For Students 11th - 12th
This page summarizes each section of Chapter 4: Dynamics: Force and Newton's Laws of Motion in the AP Physics online text. These include Newton's three laws of motion and application of those and other forces.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Force and Newton's Laws: Conceptual Questions

For Students 11th - 12th
This page offers 27 questions to test students' knowledge of the major concepts in each section of Chapter 4: Dynamics: Force and Newton's Laws of Motion from the AP Physics online text.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Physics 1: Applications of Newton's Laws of Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
Students apply Newton's laws to more diverse physical settings where multiple forces from varying origins interact. To aid in condensing the physical setting into mathematical expressions, the free body diagram is used in this module...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Newton's Laws of Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
Making objects move around the computer screen and responding to a variety of environmental forces by understanding Newton's Laws of force and acceleration.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: What Are Newton's Laws?

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Through a series of three lessons and one activity, students are introduced to inertia, forces, and Newton's three laws of motion.
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Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation

For Students 9th - 10th
States the equation of Newton's law of universal gravitation. States the value of G and uses the equation to solve problems.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Newton's Law of Gravity

For Students 7th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Newton's law of universal gravitation and factors that affect the strength of gravity between two objects.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: 4.7 Further Applications of Newton's Laws of Motion

For Students 11th - 12th
By the end of this section, you will be able to apply problem-solving techniques to solve for quantities in more complex systems of forces and to integrate concepts from kinematics to solve problems using Newton's laws of motion.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Physics 1: Newton's Laws of Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
Newton's three laws are deceptively simple, but they are the underpinning of all of physics and govern the mechanics all of your actions in everyday life. Take an in-depth look at these laws in this learning module.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: 5 Newton's Laws: Friction, Drag, and Elasticity: Summary

For Students 11th - 12th
This page summarizes each section of Chapter 5: Further Applications of Newton's Laws: Friction, Drag, and Elasticity from the AP Physics online text. These include friction, drag force, and elasticity: stress and strain.
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BBC

Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Newton's Laws

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on Newton's Law for falling objects including terminal velocity, the three stages of falling, a diagram showing what happens to the speed of a skydiver from airplane to ground, velocity-time graphs for falling...

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