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Other

Hstry: Roller Coaster Design Brief Template

For Students 9th - 10th
Interactive site by STEM teacher Mariana Garcia-Serrato in a lesson on physics in which students design, budget for and analyze their own roller coasters.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Physics of Roller Coasters

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students explore the physics utilized by engineers in designing today's roller coasters, including potential and kinetic energy, friction, and gravity. First, students learn that all true roller coasters are completely driven by the...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Getting Started With the Ti Navigator: Equations of My Road

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson introduces students to the use of a map of an area, a neighborhood, a favorite city, or an amusement park, to determine the slope of a specific road. Students will find the slope of a line using a coordinate plane.
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: How Roller Coasters Affect Your Body

For Students 9th - 10th
Brian D. Avery investigates what roller coasters are doing to your body and how they've managed to get scarier and safer at the same time.