TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Car Collision Testing & Tradeoffs: Don't Crack Humpty
Student groups are provided with a generic car base on which to design a device/enclosure to protect an egg as it rolls down a ramp at increasing slopes. During this activity, student teams design, build and test their prototype...
Georgia State University
Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Kinetic Energy
This site from Georgia State University Physics Department defines kinetic energy and compares and contrasts it with other forms of energy. Provides an equation and links to further, more-detailed information.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Kinetic and Potential Energy
Given diagrams, illustrations or relevant data, students will identify examples of kinetic and potential energy and their transformations.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12 Exploration Series: Simulations: Physics: Crash Test Dummy
[Free Registration/Login Required] Learn about and explore the relationship between force, time, impulse, and momentum in collisions.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Potential Energy
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students explore the differences between kinetic and potential energy, and understand how they are dependent on each other.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Skateboard Disaster
Students examine collisions between two skateboards with different masses to learn about conservation of momentum in collisions.
Cengage Learning
Cengage Learning: Project Based Learning: Egg Drop Experiment
Students are challenged to design a way to drop a raw egg from varying heights without letting the egg break. Creative thinking and evaluation of results are critical to the project.