The general manager of a fitness center explains how numerical calculations, percentages, and ratios are critical to his job in this video from KAET. In the accompanying classroom activity, students explore percentages, fractions, and...

Students work in small groups to use a physical model, the earthquake machine, to examine the occurrence of earthquakes and the inputs and outputs of fault systems.

In this lesson students get to combine the world of literacy and physical movement! As the teacher reads the book "Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now" by Dr. Seuss, students listen carefully and safely jump up out of their chairs...

Introduce students to physics concepts that engineers use when building a bridge. This curriculum unit includes concepts such as Newton's Third Law, stress on a material, vibration, and resonance. Unit includes lectures, lab activities,...

In this activity, students get to combine the world of literacy and physical movement! As the teacher reads the book Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now, by Dr. Seuss, students listen carefully and safely jump up out of their chairs...

At this tutorial, a happy bug in the center of a circular water puddle is used to describe the Doppler effect.

Students will learn basic basketball skills and drills during this lesson. Different types of dribbles and tosses are the foci during the lesson.

This site shares a collection of expert and peer-vetted teacher resources that are searchable for teachers and students. Searching can be achieved via a subject, grade, audience, and/or type. Curricula standards for the following subjets...

This lesson will have students practicing locomotor skills and moving safely in general space. A video and assessment are provided.

We tend to think about sports and games as if they were physical activities that depend on strength and speed, and reading and math problems as if they were mental activities that depend on being brainy and smart. It's true that hitting...

A teacher lesson plan which could be easily converted into an idea for a student project or presentation. This page describes an activity in which the water-electricity analogy is used to investigate the relationship between current,...

This site has the summary of a report on nature and wildlife in Europe. Read about the natural environment, changes resulting from human activity, or access a table of contents to read more.

In this guide, you can learn more about the situations in which writers and readers find themselves and the physical, social, cultural, and historical contexts that shape them. Click on each of the links on the right to learn about the...

By the end of this section, you will be able to explain the human body's consumption of energy when at rest versus when engaged in activities that do useful work and to calculate the conversion of chemical energy in food into useful work.

Determine the primary cause for the increase in overweight youth in the U.S., and examine associated health risks. Investigate media targeted to youth, strategize a plan to motivate teens to exercise more, then implement the plan.

If you are a budding environmental scientist, archeologist. physical scientist, or bacteriologist, then this is the site is for you. You will be looking at the differential equation of proportional change and how it is related to the...

In this lesson, you learn how to apply the concepts of maxima and minima to any formula that is generated by business, economics, physics, etc. It is one of the most important applications of derivatives and will show up on your AP...

A high school physics lab on classical mechanics in which students study force versus time and acceleration versus time. Students need access to an elevator to complete the experiments. A lab handout is provided.

Here is described a simple process to 'put a voice on a sunbeam' and transmit it over a distance. It is a fascinating example of amplitude modulation of light using sound vibrations. It then describes how the modulated light is detected...

The Illinois Institute of Technology provides this site. The site contains a graphing activity which illustrates that a constant force exerted upon an object results in constant acceleration. Rolling carts and stopwatches are used to...

In this video, musician Jake Shimabukuro uses the pitch of musical notes and vibrations in hertz to illustrate the concept of ratios. This clip is from Center for Asian American Media. In the accompanying classroom activity, students...

Tactile learners learn most effectively by being able to manipulate and physically touch objects. This article explores three different tactile activities that have been found to be useful in teaching different age groups of tactile...

Risky play can be defined as a thrilling and exciting activity that involves a risk of physical injury, and play that provides opportunities for challenge, testing limits, exploring boundaries and learning about injury risk. This article...