This is a classroom demonstration version of Lab 14 from "Physics with Calculators"

In this physics lab activity students investigate how mass, length and angular displacement affect the period of a simple pendulum. Students control variables, testing one variable at a time, using manual techniques (stopwatch, human...

The Illinois Institute of Technology offers this lesson plan to teach high school young scholars the concept of periodic motion and relate it to the movement of a pendulum.

This is a performance task for Grade Four students where they observe two different pendulums and compare the two types of motion. The activity is designed for a lab setting where students work at individual stations. A rubric and...