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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Physics 1: Newton's Laws of Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
Newton's three laws are deceptively simple, but they are the underpinning of all of physics and govern the mechanics all of your actions in everyday life. Take an in-depth look at these laws in this learning module.
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: How to Pull Something Heavy

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students measure and analyze forces that act on vehicles pulling heavy objects while moving at a constant speed on a frictional surface. They study how the cars interact with their environments through forces, and discover which...
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Forte and Piano

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Lesson plan where students learn what forte and piano mean and idenitfy them in music and pictures that represent sounds. Students also will demonstrate forte and piano while singing a song that they learn from a video.
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Handout
San Diego State University

Sd State: Elements of Music Part Five

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an extensive website on other musical elements; but "accents" is thoroughly covered. You must scroll down to "dynamics."
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Pendulum Periods Demonstration

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This is a classroom demonstration version of Lab 14 from "Physics with Calculators"
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Simple Harmonic Motion

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity assesses students' knowledge and understanding of simple harmonic motion.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Groucho's Sign Shop

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students' use force sensors to investigate forces and learn about force as a vector. Similar concept to the common "spring scale" force vector lab, but with a real-world twist.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Circular Motion

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In UCM, the net force called Fc is equal to mv2/r and is directed toward the center. This is demonstrated by an object that is suspended by a string and is moving in a circular path which makes a conical pendulum. In this experiment, you...
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Me*pro? App

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This App has reference information for mechanical engineering students and professionals. The information is organized into sections titled Analysis, Equations, Polygons, and Reference.
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Website
Other

Creating Music

For Students 3rd - 5th
This online, interactive environment for music creation and exploration includes games and puzzles and interesting activities that teach about music in a visual way.
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Interactive
Quia

Quia: Musical Elements

For Students 3rd - 5th
A great matching game to reinforce music vocabulary and an understanding of the elements of music.
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Article
OpenStax

Open Stax: Catherine Schmidt Jones: Dynamics in Music

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This lesson focuses on the use of dynamics in music. Learn what the most common terms mean. Includes several activities to use with your class.
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Online Course
Yale University

Open Yale Courses: Physics 200: Fundamentals of Physics

For Students 9th - 10th
The first of a whole series of lectures given by Professor Shankar of Yale. This first lecture is an overview of Newtonian mechanics. The lecture comes in video or audio format. A transcript is also available.
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Handout
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Glossary for Forces and Newton's Laws

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a glossary of terms and definitions used in Chapter 4: Force and Newton's Laws of Motion from the AP Physics online text.
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Lesson Plan
Other

Forces on Bridges: Mathematical Model

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This resource presents information about the mathematical model of forces on bridges. Examples of a classroom activity are provided. The resource also involves using matrices to solve systems of equations.
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Website
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Urbana Champaign: Learning Musical Elements Through Listening

For Students 3rd - 8th
This is a site created for teaching children the art of listening to music. Includes sections on the elements of music, composers, and genres with more under construction.
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Website
Other

Tomas Howie Drumming Web: Reading Music

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is provided for by Tomas Howie and Drumming Web. Although originally written for the drummer, any aspiring musician could benefit from the explanation of how to read music and the examples it contains. Drummers will want to...