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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Determining Densities

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students will use two different methods to determine the densities of a variety of materials and objects. The first method involves direct measurement of the volumes of objects that have simple geometric shapes, while the second uses the...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Mouse Trap Racing in the Computer Age!

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students design, build and evaluate a spring-powered mouse trap racer. For evaluation, teams equip their racers with an intelligent brick from a LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Education Base Set and a HiTechnic acceleration sensor. They use...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Magical Motion

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students watch video clips from the October Sky and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone movies to see examples of projectile motion. Then they explore the relationships between displacement, velocity and acceleration, and calculate...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Eureka! Or Buoyancy and Archimedes' Principle

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students explore material properties in hands-on and visually evident ways via the Archimedes' principle. First, they design and conduct an experiment to calculate densities of various materials and present their findings to the class....
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Floaters and Sinkers

For Teachers 6th - 9th
This lesson introduces students to the important concept of density. The focus is on the more easily understood densities of solids, but students can also explore the densities of liquids and gases. Students devise methods to determine...
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Handout
Chem Tutor

Chem Tutor: Single Replacement Reactions

For Students 9th - 10th
Information and examples on single and double replacement reactions, also called single displacement, single substitution, or activity replacement and double displacement, or metathesis. Practice problems with answers are available.
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Interactive
CNN

Cnn: Life Inside a Fema Trailer

For Students 9th - 10th
Captivating audio slide show that details a family's experience in a FEMA trailer after they were displaced from their home by Hurricane Katrina.
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Article
CNN

Cnn: Protesters, Workers Clash in 9th Ward

For Students 9th - 10th
January, 2006, article that recounts a clash between residents of New Orleans' Ninth Ward and workers who were using bulldozers to clear debris in that ward. There was a class-action lawsuit against the city because houses were being...
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: What Does It Mean to Be a Refugee?

For Students 9th - 10th
About 60 million people around the globe have been forced to leave their homes to escape war, violence and persecution. The majority have become Internally Displaced Persons, meaning they fled their homes but are still in their own...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: A Syrian Refugee's Story

For Students 9th - 10th
In this short film, Welcome to Canada, learn about a Syrian refugee's story, Mohammed Alsaleh, who fled violence and imprisonment by the Assad regime during Syria's Civil War. Mohammed was granted asylum and now lives in Canada where he...
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Article
Bozeman Science

Bozeman Science: Work and Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
In the following video Paul Andersen explains how the mechanical energy added or removed from a system results from work. For work to occur a force must act parallel to the displacement of the system. Since work and energy are equivalent...
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eBook
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Horizontal and Vertical Components of Velocity

For Students 9th - 10th
Students learn how to describe the motion of projectiles numerically; specifically how the numerical values of the x and y components of the velocity and displacement change with time. Includes animations and interactive simulation.
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Handout
Frostburg State University

General Chemistry Online: Chemical Change Faq

For Students 9th - 10th
Investigate the answers to many commonly asked questions about chemical change. This comprehensive list will address chemical equations and double displacement reactions in addition to other topics.
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Article
CNN

Cnn: New Orleans Evacuations Under Way

For Students 9th - 10th
The federal government begins to evacuate those displaced by Hurricane Katrina to other parts of the country, including Texas, as the conditions on the Gulf Coast continue to deteriorate after Hurricane Katrina. Report is from September,...
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Single Replacement Reactions

For Students 9th - 10th
Definition of single replacement (or single displacement) reactions. Predicting and determining the products using the reactivity series.
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Global Oneness Project: A Refugee's Story (Lesson Plan)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students watch a 19-minute documentary that tells the story of Mohammed Alsaleh, a young Syrian refugee granted asylum in Canada in 2014, who is now counseling newly arrived refugees. In this lesson, students explore through classroom...
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Other

National Science Digital Library: Smile: Aesop's Arithmetic

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A cross-curricular instructional activity integrating Aesop's The Crow and the Pitcher with an experiment testing the outcome of the fable using volume and displacement concepts.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Kinematics Investigation

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students solve trigonometric equations and investigate kinematics. They calculate and graph the displacement, velocity, and acceleration of trigonometric functions.
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Website
Other

Easyphysics: Chapter 2 Velocity

For Students 9th - 10th
Learners investigate velocity. Some topics examined are average velocity, distance, and displacement. The resource includes example problems with solutions, interactive graphs, and a chapter quiz.
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Other

Institute of Physics: Practical Physics: Investigate Mass on Spring Oscillators

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This experiment allows the period, displacement, velocity, and acceleration of a mass suspended on a spring to be investigated by data logging the output from a motion sensor. It is an example of simple harmonic motion.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Buoyant Boats

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students learn about displacement, density and buoyancy then apply their knowledge to build a floating object.
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Activity
Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Finding Speed From Work Graph

For Students 9th - 10th
Students must determine the speed of a hockey puck based on a graph of force vs. displacement.
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Interactive
Walter Fendt

Walter Fendt: Buoyant Force in Liquids

For Students 9th - 10th
An app that demonstrates the Law of Archimedes. This virtual experiment will show students that by changing the shape of the solid, the amount of liquid displaced will change.
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Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Describing Motion With Words

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson from the Glenbrook South High School gives a nice review and detailed explanation of velocity, speed, distance, displacement, and acceleration. A good introduction to the "language of Kinematics."

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