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Activity
Museum of Science

The Museum of Science: Gadget Anatomy

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from The Museum of Science presents some compound machines and asks students to identify which simple machines they are composed of. Students provide their answer and receive immediate feedback.
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Interactive
Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Work to P Eg Lab

For Students 9th - 10th
This lab is designed to have students discover the relationship between the work that is done and the changes to height that occur to an object. Students can adjust the amount of energy added to the object. They can test five different...
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Unit Plan
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Ven Conmigo; Las Carreras Verifiquemos!

For Students 9th - 10th
From Holt Rinehart Winston, Ven conmigo series, this is "Las carreras Verifiquemos!" or "Careers, Let's Review", a vocabulary worksheet for the review of career names in Spanish.
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Activity
Other

Puhinui School: The Atoms Family: The Mummy's Tomb: Raceways

For Students 3rd - 8th
Help the Mummy build a rollercoaster to entertain the Atoms Family monsters by investigating the concepts of kinetic and potential energy.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Kinetic Energy and the Work Energy Theorem

For Students 11th - 12th
By the end of this section, you will be able to explain work as a transfer of energy and net work as the work done by the net force and to explain and apply the work-energy theorem.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Work: The Scientific Definition

For Students 11th - 12th
By the end of this section, you will be able to explain how an object must be displaced for a force on it to do work; explain how relative directions of force and displacement of an object; and determine whether the work done on the...
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Handout
Integrated Publishing

Integrated Publishing: The Inclined Plane and the Wedge

For Students 9th - 10th
Outlines the wedge and inclined plane, including their uses in everyday life and their mechanical advantages.
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Handout
Integrated Publishing

Integrated Publishing: Pulley Mechanical Advantage

For Students 9th - 10th
Good illustrations and explanations for finding the mechanical advantage of pulley systems.
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Unit Plan
Ingles Mundial

Ingles Mundial: Work (El Trabajo)

For Students 9th - 10th
Great tool for teaching Spanish-speaking English Language Learners (ELL). This vocabulary lesson focuses on: jobs, ordinals, days, months, dates, verbs. A variety of interactive, self-correcting exercises are provided to reinforce...
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Handout
Integrated Publishing

Integrated Publishing: Power and Horsepower

For Students 9th - 10th
Good defintions of both power and horsepower, including nice diagrams and calculations.
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Handout
Integrated Publishing

Integrated Publishing: How Mechanical Advantage Is Used

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes how pulley systems are used in the real world, including the role of the mechanical advantage in selecting the proper pulley system.
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Handout
Integrated Publishing

Integrated Publishing: Force and Mechanical Advantage

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains the relationship between force and mechanical advantage with diagrams, examples and calculations.
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eBook
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Work and Energy: Energy Transformation for a Dart

For Students 9th - 10th
Consider an ordinary dart projected from a toy dart gun and moving through the air. Students analyze work and energy of the motion of the dart with this animation.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Pendulums Swing Into Motion

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This lesson will allow students in groups to describe the relationship between energy, work, and force through the use of pendulums. The results will be reported through a graphing activity as well as a paragraph written and printed on...
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Us History: 1945 1980: African Americans, Women, and the Gi Bill

For Students 9th - 10th
Female and minority veterans faced difficulties accessing their GI Bill benefits.
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Work Can Be Negative!

For Students 9th - 10th
Understand that work, a measurement of energy, can be negative.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Work and Energy Questions

For Students 9th - 10th
Practice MCAT questions pertaining to work and energy.
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: What Is Kinetic Energy?

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn what kinetic energy means and how it relates to work.
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: What Are Energy and Work?

For Students 9th - 10th
Here we learn what work and energy mean in physics and how they are related.
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Interactive
South Carolina Educational Television

Know It All: Inside a Television Station | Kids Work!

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Students will connect schoolwork with real work as they explore a virtual representation of a television station with specific work areas labeled and defined. Hover your mouse over room to take a look inside a television station.
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Handout
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physics: Energy Study Guide

For Students 9th - 10th
Understand and review energy concepts with this study guide.
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eBook
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Beyond Salary: Benefits May Matter More Than You Think

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore how job benefits- many of which are factored in pre-tax-can translate to real money in your pocket.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Energy and Work Amusement Park Style

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This is a lesson presenting energy and work. It covers: types of energy, forms of energy, work, law of conservation of energy, and renewable and nonrenewable energy sources. In the activities section, one will find links to Internet...
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eBook
NASA

Nasa: From Stargazers to Starships: Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
Demonstrates how principles of kinetic energy, potential energy and energy conservation can be used to determine the speed of a descending object if given its initial height. Further discussion of other topics such as heat and...