Pingry School
Kinetics of the Acid Decomposition of Thiosulfate
Several factors affect the rate of a chemical reaction including temperature, surface area, and concentration. Using an experimental approach, learners explore the effect concentration has on this rate while maintaining consistency with...
Curated OER
Plate Tectonics Day 3 Sea Floor Spreading: Evidence for Continental Drift
Students are introduced to Sea Floor Spreading and how it provides evidence for Hess's and Deitz's theory of Continental Drift. They use paleomagnetic data to calculate the rate of Sea Floor Spreading.
Curated OER
Sports Helmets and Impact Testing of Polymers
Students examine the importance of good quality safety gear. In this investigative lesson plan, students will tests various polymers, collect data, and analyze the data to determine which polymer is best for safety helmets. They will...
Curated OER
Graham's Laws: Diffusion and Effusion of Gases
Students conduct a series of experiments to explore Graham's law. In this chemistry lesson plan, students differentiate effusion and diffusion. They perform calculations using Boyle's, Henry's, Charles' and Graham's Laws.
Curated OER
Activity Two Teacher Page: Explosions
Students identify variables that affect the system, and specify which variables are independent and which are dependent.
Curated OER
Cosmic Ray Momentum
Students describe how cosmic rays achieve high kinetic energy via conservation of momentum.
Curated OER
Sexy Coral Reef and I Want My Own Space
Fifth graders explore how coral polyps increase the chances of egg and sperm meeting after being released into the vast ocean waters.
Curated OER
Enslaved and Running
Learners use runaway slave advertisements to discover how the language varies from the 18th to 21st century. Using primary source documents, they research the brutality of slavery and the desire of those in slavery to be free. They...
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Collision Lab
An interactive air hockey simulation that teaches about collisions, momentum, and velocity. This simulation can either be downloaded or played online and includes handouts, lesson plans, and additional materials.
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Curling Stone Momentum Lab
This lab is designed to have students investigate the nature of a nonlinear collision using curling stones. Students will be able to look at how the velocities before the collision and the mass of the stones affects the results of the...
Other
Uc Santa Cruz: Collisions
A physics definition of collisions with examples to illustrate the concept and related links to problems and solutions.
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Diffusion
An activity to understand how diffusion is a result of random motion and collisions of particles. With the virtual labs, explore how a drop of food coloring into a glass spreads and how perfume diffuses at different temperatures and...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigating Chemical Reactions: Factors Which Influence Rate of Reaction
In this activity, students investigate and discover how surface area, concentration, and temperature affect the rate of a chemical reaction. This lab is designed for students to practice good experimental tests of hypotheses, synthesize...
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: Colliding Spheres
This lab activity from the Illinois Institute of Technology lets students investigate the impact of collisions upon the velocity and momentum of the colliding objects. Requires understanding of vectors.
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...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Colliding Marbles
In this lesson, young scholars use marbles of various sizes to see how collisions can transfer energy from one object to another. Resources include videos of the lesson in actions, examples of student work, and a lab worksheet for students.
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Breaking a Molecular Bond
Can you break the bond between the two atoms?
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.