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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12 Exploration Series: Simulations: Physics: Loop the Loop

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Learn about the centripetal motion in the context of a roller coaster going through a loop-the-loop and over a hill.
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American Association of Physics Teachers

Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Newton's Mountain Model

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A science simulation launches a projectile from the top of a mountain testing Newton's theory introduced in Principia.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Mn Step: The First Law of Motion: The Tower of Coins

For Teachers K - 1st
Young scholars learn about inertia in this simple experiment. They create a stack of twelve round objects, beginning with nickels, and try to remove the bottom object without toppling the tower. Various tools are provided for them to use...
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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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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Spring Thing: Newton's Second Law

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students' use a force sensor and a motion detector to collect force and acceleration data for an object moving up and down hanging from a spring. They use the data to test Newton's second law, and to estimate the mass...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physics Simulation: First Law Simulation

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this simulation, students investigate the question of whether force is required to keep a sled moving on ice.
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Newton's First Law (Inertia)

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This activity provides young scholars an opportunity to investigate Newton's first law by observing inertia in a variety of experiments. Students will hypothesize on possible outcomes, write observations of what has happened, and apply...
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University of California

Understanding Science: Newton's 2nd Law: Inquiry Approach Lesson

For Teachers 10th - 12th
For this lesson, students develop their own scientific experiment to test Newton's hypothesis that the acceleration of an object depends on the net force acting upon it and its mass. After completing their designed experiment, students...
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Exploring Newton's Second Law

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students conduct an experiment that will reinforce their understanding of Newton's Second Law. Using simple objects, students control force, mass, and acceleration, and how each is related to each other.
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Lesson Plan
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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BBC

Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Newton's Second Law

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on Newton's Second Law including the formula Force = mass to the x power acceleration, an example of how to calculate the force needed to accelerate based on mass, and a link to a test.
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating Projectile Motion: Predicting Point of Impact

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students discuss forces acting on objects in a trajectory motion. They review notes, study equations, solve projectile motion problems, and determine experimentally the impact point of a ball in projectile motion.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Plix Series: Projectile Motion: Object Launched Horizontally

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Use the interactive diagram to solve a projectile motion problem. After the activity, answer a challenge question to check for understanding.
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Other

Institute of Physics: Newton's Cradle

For Students 9th - 10th
The interactive simulation demonstrates the conservation of momentum through a Newton?s Cradle simulation.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Plix Series: Projectile Motion: Object Launched at an Angle

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Explore how angles affect the projectile motion of a thrown object. After the activity, answer a challenge question to check for understanding.
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Article
Physics Central

Physics Central: Physics Buzz Blog : The Physics of Football

For Students 9th - 10th
Football is a sport almost made for physicists. Newton's three laws of motion are at work during every play and little things like the unpredictable bounce of the "prolate spheroid" - the football - can throw kinks into a game no...
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Forces in Motion

For Teachers 6th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson explores forces, and how they react to the world around us. It also discusses Newton's Laws of Science.
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Handout
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Harcourt: Biographies: Isaac Newton

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief biography on scientist Isaac Newton, highlighting his discoveries and the book he published in 1687, "Principia", which was on his theories of gravity and laws of motion.
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Handout
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Isaac Newton

For Students 9th - 10th
A biography of the scientist that developed the theory of gravity and founded the three basic laws of motion, Isaac Newton.
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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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eBook
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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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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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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