The Wonder of Science
The Wonder of Science: Ms Ps2 1: Collision Design Solution
Help your middle schoolers explore how the motion of objects changes during a collision. This website includes work samples, phenomena, assessment templates, and videos that focus on collision design solution.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Linear Momentum and Collisions: Summary
This page features a summary of each section of Chapter 8: Linear Momentum and Collisions from the AP Physics online text.
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.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Inelastic Collisions & Conservation of Momentum
This lesson explains why conservation of momentum can be applied to inelastic collisions.
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...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: More Complex Collisions
This lesson explains why momentum is conserved for objects which strike one another at angles.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Puttin' It All Together
On the topic of energy related to motion, this summary instructional activity is intended to tie together the concepts of work, power, collisions, momentum and drag. A hands-on activity demonstrates this idea and reinforces students'...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Skateboard Disaster
Students examine collisions between two skateboards with different masses to learn about conservation of momentum in collisions.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Mechanics Mania
Through ten lessons and numerous activities, students explore the natural universal rules engineers and physicists use to understand how things move and stay still. Together, these rules are called "mechanics." The study of mechanics is...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Energy of Motion
By taking a look at the energy of motion all around us, students learn about the types of energy and their characteristics. They first learn about the two simplest forms of mechanical energy: kinetic and potential energy, as illustrated...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Imagine Life Without Friction
Students are introduced to the concept of inertia and its application to a world without the force of friction acting on moving objects. When an object is in motion, friction tends to be the force that acts on this object to slow it down...
Other
Ward's Science: Speedy Energy
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...
Chem4kids
Chem4 Kids: Reaction Rates
This Chem4Kids.com site explores the rate of reactions. Content focuses on forces that change the speed of reactions, and measuring rates.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The Ruff Ruffman Show: Teacher's Guide: Sports Science
Learn about sports science and force and motion alongside Ruff Ruffman.
Other
Hands on Cern: Explore the Smallest Components of Matter
An online course in particle physics with colorful images, charts and animations. Begin by learning about the Standard Model and the types of particles, particle families, and forces, then carry this knowledge over to your study and...
Other
The Gold Rush: Collision of Cultures
This page discusses the many different cultures that came to California during the gold rush.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Crash! Bang!
Learners learn about the physical force of linear momentum - movement in a straight line - by investigating collisions. They learn an equation that engineers use to describe momentum. Students also investigate the psychological...
Michigan Reach Out
Newton's Apple: Soccer
Learning physics can help you win your next soccer game as well as prepare you for your science studies.
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: Momentum Conserved
This site by the Illinois Institute of Technology gives a Lab activity in which students use a variety of toys to discover Newton's second law and momentum conservation. Newton's cradle, skate boards, and a toy motorcycle are incoporated...
Walter Fendt
Walter Fendt: Apps Zur Physik
This site, in German, offers numerous apps that illustrate common physics principles. Apps are organized into categories: mechanics, oscillations and waves, electrodynamics, optics, thermodynamics, the theory of relativity, physics of...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The Ruff Ruffman Show: Bottle Cap Hockey
Explore sports science and see how many points can you score with your bottle caps in Ruff's take on table hockey.
Oakland Museum of California
California's Untold Stories: Natives and Immigrants
This site provides a tour through the history of natives and immigrants to the California Gold Rush area, including African American, California Indian, Chinese, and Latino.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Earth and Space Science: The Engine That Drives the Earth
Material to begin an exploration of volcanoes, earthquakes, and plate tectonics. An hour-long video is accompanied by learning goals, an outline and overview, details on volcano types, plate boundaries, and "hot spots," and ideas for...