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Handout
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Kinetic Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
Kinetic energy is defined and explained--learning exercises are included to assess your understanding.
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Speed & Velocity

For Students 9th - 10th
A slide show with three accompanying video lesson segments illustrating the difference between speed and velocity, and demonstrating how to calculate average speed and velocity. [6:31]
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Acceleration

For Students 9th - 10th
A slide show illustrating two types of acceleration as they are related to velocity and time. Learn how to solve a simple equation, and calculate average acceleration.
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Activity
Educaplus (Jesús Peñas Cano)

Educaplus: Estudio De Los Movimientos

For Students 9th - 10th
This site shows a cinematic study of rectilinear movements which requires the use of equations and graphs. Every day life applications are also shown.
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Soft Schools

Soft Schools: Science Quizzes: Momentum and Impulse

For Students 9th - 10th
Assess your understanding of the properties of momentum and impulse with this interactive multiple choice quiz. Immediate feedback is provided.
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Online Course
Yale University

Open Yale Courses: Physics 200: Waves

For Students 9th - 10th
This lecture includes discussion on various factors affecting waves. Topics addressed include velocity, intensity, energy and frequency. Several examples are given to clarify each topic. The lecture is available in video, audio or...
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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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Lesson Plan
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Classroom Activities: Parachuting

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity explores a parachutist and her position, velocity and acceleration. Graphing and calculating these functions will be required.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Momentum

For Students 7th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Definition of momentum and how it relates to mass and velocity, and calculating momentum.
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Activity
Other

Center for Education Partnerships: The Marble Roll

For Students 3rd - 9th
In this Science-athon, students try to make their marble roll the farthest across a flat surface, using their knowledge of forces, motion, and energy to guide them through their apparatus design. Teachers must enroll online.
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Two Dimensional Motion and Conservation of Energy

For Teachers 9th - 10th
For this physics lab students look at conservation of energy to find the horizontal velocity of a sphere in order to predict where it will land.
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Newton's Second Law: How Does Acceleration Change With Varying Forces?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lab activity, students investigate the effects of changing force on the acceleration of a lab cart testing Newton's Second Law of Motion. They will use distance and time to calculate velocity and create a graph representing their...
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Exploring Acceleration Through Vectors

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The goal of this activity is to get students to think about what is happening when velocity and acceleration vectors point in different directions. The pictures, sentences, and cars used allow the students to picture each situation in...
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Measuring the Speed of Go Carts

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners will make go-carts and measure the velocity, then change one variable and see how the velocity changes. They will learn about the equation speed = distance divided by time and practice using it.
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Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Curling Stone Momentum Problem

For Students 9th - 10th
Students must predict the new velocity of a curling stone after it collides with a curling stone that was previously at rest.
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Interactive
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Circular and Satellite Motion: Orbital Motion Interactive

For Students 9th - 10th
This simulation of a satellite's elliptical motion around a central body allows students to alter the eccentricity of the orbit while learning about velocity and force vectors.
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eBook
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Momentum and Its Conservation: Momentum

For Students 9th - 10th
Through examples and interactive practice problems, students explore the momentum equation.
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eBook
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Circular and Satellite Motion: Principles for Satellites

For Students 9th - 10th
Students explore how a satellite's motion is governed by the same physics principles and described by the same mathematical equations.
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eBook
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Momentum and Collisions: Big Fish Catches Little Fish

For Students 9th - 10th
This animation portrays the inelastic collision between a very massive fish and a less massive fish. What is the after-collision velocity of the two fish?
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Activity
Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Graphing Motion Problem Level 4

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out the instantaneous velocity based on a position vs. time graph.
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Activity
Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Graphing Motion Problem Level 5

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out the acceleration of an object from a position vs. time graph by finding the instantaneous velocity at two different points.
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Activity
Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Vertical Motion of Firework Level 3

For Students 9th - 10th
Find the explosion height and the time to explosion for a firework that is fired vertically upward and explodes at the point where it already coming back down again. Information about the planet will be given to them so that they can...
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Activity
Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Graphing Motion Problem Level 1

For Students 9th - 10th
Students are finding the velocities of objects based on the position vs. time graphs they create.
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Interactive
Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Distance, Time and Speed Challenge

For Students 9th - 10th
This game is designed to help students mentally figure out distances, speeds or time for objects moving at constant speed. A video will help with use of the program: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nWhvhO6pXo&feature=youtu.be