NASA
Glenn Research Center: Newton's Laws of Motion
NASA presents a concise explanation of Newton's three laws of motion. Click on the highlighted vocabulary to find more detailed and illustrated descriptions. Included is a link to a movie that shows how the laws of motion described the...
Utah Education Network
Uen: The Larger It Is the Harder It Falls
Understand the concept of force and the effect it has on the motion of objects.
Utah Education Network
Uen: May the Best Force Win
The greater the force applied to an object, the greater the change in speed or direction of the object.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Flicking With Force
Balls of varying weights are used to discover the results of force applied to an object.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Super Paper Planes
Activity helps students understand force, mass, and measurement.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Episd: Net Force
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Understand the physics that occurs in a game of tug-of-war.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Impulse
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this online tutorial students will be asked to calculate the impulse applied to a physical system.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Friction
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this module, students learn what causes friction, what factors affect friction, and how it is calculated.
Other
Mattel: Hot Wheels: Speedometry
This resource is part of a two unit curriculum designed for fourth-graders using the 5E Instructional Model (Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate and Evaluate) to support students as they investigate the effect that height and other...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Lifting the Load
Discover how much force is needed to lift objects without and with a pulley.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Catapult Creations
Third graders learn how a catapult works and build their own.
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Uen: Trb 3:4 Investigation 4 Roller Coaster Fun
Third graders will design and build a roller coaster to help understand gravity.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Trb 3:3 Investigation 5 Balloon Rockets
Learn about the relationship between the force applied to an object and the resulting motion.
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Uen: Tubularastic Roller Coaster
Third graders will understand the effect of gravity on objects.
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Uen: Trb 3:4 Investigation 2 Jump
Third graders will learn that gravity has more of a pulling force with heavy objects than light objects.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Trb 3:3 Investigation 2 Zoom Balls
Third graders will use Zoom Balls to understand how sometimes both forces of push and pull need to be used at the same time.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Tissue Parachutes
Third graders create their own parachutes to understand the concept of gravity and the effect it has on objects.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Trb 3:3 Investigation 4 Collision Zone
Learn how forces of push and pull can change speed or direction.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Newton's Triple Play: Baseball Science
In this lesson, students watch a video and animations that relate Isaac Newton's three laws of motion to baseball and apply what they've learned about these laws to another sport or other real-life situation.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: 3 M Young Scientist Lab: Salt Engineering
Salt crystals demonstrate how forces can be directed in mechanical systems.