TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: What's Up With All This Traffic?
Expanding on the topic of objects in motion covering Newton's laws of motion, acceleration and velocity, which are taught starting in third grade, middle schoolers are introduced to new concepts of speed, density, level of service (LOS)...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Physics 1: One Dimensional Kinematics
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.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12 Exploration Series: Simulations: Physics: Stadium Wave
[Free Registration/Login Required] A simulation that uses the classic sports stadium "wave" to learn about concepts important to wave motion and interference.
American Chemical Society
Middle School Chemistry: Lesson Plans: Does Temperature Affect Dissolving?
Students identify and control variables to design an experiment to see whether the temperature of a solvent affects the speed at which a solute dissolves.
Other
Calculus Preview
The resource gives students a preview of topics learned in Calculus. Concepts included are graphs, speed, and integration. Graphs, tables, and an interactive applet are used to investigate the examples.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Match Me!
In this activity, students move in a specific way in front of the motion detector to create motion plots that match a given Distance versus Time plot. They make connections between types of movements and characteristics of Distance-Time...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: What Is Velocity?
Velocity or speed? Instantaneous or average? Keep building your physics vocabulary.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Kinematics Section Summary
This is a summary of the main topics for AP Physics Chapter 2 Kinematics. These include Displacement; Vectors, Scalars, and Coordinate Systems; Time, Velocity, and Speed; Acceleration; Motion Equations for Constant Acceleration in One...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Direction of Acceleration
In this short lab, students use Tonka trucks to observe the acceleration of a object as it initiates acceleration, maintains a steady speed, and slows to a stop.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Velocity
This activity will test a student's understanding of the relationships between location and motion as pertaining to time.
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies
Mocomi: Speed, Velocity and Acceleration
Discover the difference between speed, velocity, and acceleration. Provides formulas and other interesting facts.
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Projectile Lab
This lab is designed to have students find the relationships that affect the horizontal distance travelled by a projectile. Students will be able to modify the starting height, initial speed and angle at which the projectile is fired....
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Shape Up!
In this activity, students can use the motion detector to record motion, and observe how the direction of movement, speed of travel, and the rate of change of direction and speed affect the shape of a distance-time plot.
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Soccer Shot Simple
Students must calculate the maximum distance they can be from an soccer net and still hit a randomly generated target. The speed and angle of the kick will be generated randomly.
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Impulse Lab
This lab is designed to have students find the relationships between impulse and change in momentum. Use the fire extinguisher to give different impulses to Wally and then use the time he is passing through the photogates to find the...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Classroom Activities: Parachuting
This activity explores a parachutist and her position, velocity and acceleration. Graphing and calculating these functions will be required.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Plix: Motion: Changing Speeds
[Free Registration/Login Required] Drag the red dot to draw a position-time graph for a sprinter with changing speeds.
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: How to Speed Up a Slow Grandfather: The Pendulum
In this lesson plan students are "given one hour to solve a problem that a has caused a huge drop in sales" for a clock company. All clocks are five minutes slow. Because of this, they must find a way to put the clock back on time...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Walk the Line
In this activity, students will create constant-speed motion plots and develop linear equations to describe them mathematically.
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Rolling Distance Lab
In this lab, students will be able to change the radius and the linear speed of a wheel. They can then see how each of these variables affects the angular speed. Students can also look at the relationship between angular distance and...
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Car on a Turn Problem
Students must determine the force of friction on a car on a turn and the maximum speed the car could navigate a turn.
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: High School Toss Level 1
Students will determine maximum height obtained by an object tossed upward off the roof of a high school. They will also find the total time aloft and the speed with which the object will impact the ground. The acceleration due to...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Measuring Velocity of Objects Using Video Clips
In this activity, young scholars learn to analyze video clips and extract data about the velocity of moving objects, reinforcing the concept of average velocity. After mastering the technique of using videos to measure velocity, students...
NASA
Nasa: Beginner's Guide to Aerodynamics
Includes exhaustive information and a wealth of activities pertaining to aerodynamics and the physics of flight.
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