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Newton's Apple: Frisbee Physics Lesson PlanNewton's Apple: Frisbee Physics Lesson Plan
Publisher
PBS
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9th - 10th
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Science
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Lexile Measures
870L
Lesson Plan

Newton's Apple: Frisbee Physics

Curated by ACT

This teacher's guide from Public Television's Newton's Apple discusses and illustrates the physics principles governing the flight of a frisbee. Includes teacher lesson plans, activity ideas, discussion questions, and information about frisbee flight.

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Concepts

aerodynamics, angular momentum, flight, frisbee, gravity, helicopters, lift, planes

Additional Tags

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Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 2 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information

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