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Understanding Car Crashes: It's Basic Physics!

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Make an impact on young physicists with this fun collection of resources. After first watching a video and taking notes on the physics of car crashes, students go on to complete a series of activities that explore the concepts of energy, inertia, and momentum.

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CCSS: Adaptable
Concepts
inertia, momentum, motion, acceleration, velocity, conservation of momentum, newton's laws of motion, newton's third law of motion, newton's first law of motion, newton's second law of motion, force, energy conservation
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Additional Tags
science
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Instructional Ideas
  • Use these activities as a series of learning centers that students work through during a physics unit on motion
  • Assign the video and note-taking guide as a homework assignment in your flipped classroom
  • If watching the video as a whole class, periodically stop for students to take notes and discuss key concepts
Classroom Considerations
  • Some activities require materials not typically found in the classroom, so be sure to plan them ahead of time
Pros
  • Note-taking guide includes time stamps to support students with locating key information
  • Questions are provided for leading a discussion following a viewing of the video
  • Includes four different hands-on activities, each with their own supporting worksheets
  • Activities suggest ways to extend student learning
Cons
  • None