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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Heat and Heat Transfer Methods: Conduction

For Students 11th - 12th
By the end of this section, you will be able to calculate thermal conductivity, observe conduction of heat in collisions, and study thermal conductivities of common substances.
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Lesson Plan
Other

Ward's Science: Speedy Energy

For Teachers 4th - 6th
This is an interactive inquiry where students will investigate the speed of an object and the energy it exerts as it crashes into other objects. Students will understand that the more speed an object has, the more energy it has in a...
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Interactive
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Molecular Workbench: Collision Between Molecular Particles

For Students 9th - 10th
View the interactions between an atom of xenon and a buckyball when they collide.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Cornell/impact of Comet Shoemaker Levy 9 With Jupiter

For Students 9th - 10th
Images and data from the Hale Telescope of the collision of Jupiter and Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9. Some of the most excellent ground-based observations of the impact.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Cornell/impact of Comet Shoemaker Levy 9 With Jupiter

For Students 9th - 10th
Images and data from the Hale Telescope of the collision of Jupiter and Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9. Some of the most excellent ground-based observations of the impact.
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Interactive
American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: Plates on the Move

For Students 9th - 10th
Find an interrelated set of tools--maps, animations, diagrams, photographs, and text--to help you understand tectonic plates and how they move.
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Website
Other

Particle Physics at Discovery's Horizon

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and how the U.S. Department of Energy and National Science Foundation have collaborated with this huge project and related experiments. You can find facts about the LHC, browse a bank of high...
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Interactive
Texas A&M University

The Cyclotron Institute

For Students 9th - 10th
What is a cyclotron and what does it have to do with atomic physics. Go to this site and find the answers to all your questions.
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Website
NASA

Nasa Space Science Data Archive: Photo Gallery: Galileo

For Students 9th - 10th
A well-indexed collection of NASA images taken by the Galileo spacecraft. Images include the spacecraft itself prior to launch and all of the solar system objects this incredible mission has visited.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: How Mountains Are Formed

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students investigate how mountains are formed. Concepts include the composition and structure of the Earth's tectonic plates and tectonic plate boundaries, with an emphasis on plate convergence as it relates to mountain formation....
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Unit Plan
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Earth and Space Science: When Continents Collide

For Students 3rd - 8th
Material to begin an exploration of plate tectonics and mountain formation. An hour-long video is accompanied by learning goals, an outline and overview, details on metamorphic rocks and mountain building, and ideas for teaching this...
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Handout
Other

University of Leicester: Irregular Galaxies

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides a general overview of irregular galaxies, including a specific look at type I and type II irregulars.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Rotational Motion and Angular Momentum: Conceptual Questions

For Students 11th - 12th
This page provides 30 questions that cover the major concepts presented in Chapter 10: Rotational Motion and Angular Momentum from the AP Physics online text.
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Handout
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: What Is Conservation of Momentum?

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn what conservation of momentum means and how to use it with this reference page.Page also includes practice problems with answers.
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Measuring Velocity of Objects Using Video Clips

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, young scholars learn to analyze video clips and extract data about the velocity of moving objects, reinforcing the concept of average velocity. After mastering the technique of using videos to measure velocity, students...
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Activity
PBS

Pbs: American Experience: Rescue at Sea

For Students 9th - 10th
Companion website to the PBS documentary on the collision of two ships in 1909 and the reliance on the newly invented telegraph for rescue.
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Unit Plan
Scholastic

Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Forces and Motion: Action and Reaction

For Students 3rd - 7th
A video and a short quiz on Newton's Third Law of Motion. It breaks down what action and reaction mean, and how mass and acceleration factor into the outcome of a collision.
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Website
Other

Insurance Inst. For Highway Safety: Hwy. Loss Data Inst.

For Students 9th - 10th
IIHS is an independent nonprofit public service organization that publishes materials relating to highway safety. Call for materials about safe vehicles, collision losses, etc.
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Design a Bicycle Helmet

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The goal of the activities is for students to understand the basics of engineering associated with safety products. Using a bicycle helmet helps to protect the brain and neck during a crash. In order to do this effectively, helmets must...
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Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Energy/momentum Ballistic Pendulum

For Students 9th - 10th
Students must predict the pre-collision speed of a ball that has been captured by a ballistic pendulum.
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Interactive
Other

Fermilab: Play Particle Pool

For Students 9th - 10th
Simulate what scientists see in a bubble chamber by playing "particle pool". You'll set up balls and cause collisions while a video monitor records the ghost paths of each individual ball. You'll also predict patterns that will result...
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eBook
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Momentum and Its Conservation: Explosions

For Students 9th - 10th
As with collisions, this interactive physics tutorial shows students how momentum is conserved in explosions.
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Website
Other

Stephen F. Austin State University: Jupiter Events

For Students 9th - 10th
An excellent site for amateur astronomers, with or without a telescope. Includes some links to information about Jupiter and its satellites and the collision of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9
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Unit Plan
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Resistance

For Students 9th - 10th
An electron traveling through the wires and loads of the external circuit encounters resistance. In this tutorial, the concept of resistance is introduced. For an electron, the journey from terminal to terminal is not a direct route....

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