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NBC

Nbc Learn: Science of Golf

For Students 9th - 10th
NBC Learn, in partnership with the United States Golf Association, uncovers the science, technology, engineering and math behind the game of golf. For lesson plans provided by the National Science Teachers Association, open the video and...
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PBS

Pbs Kids: Design Squad Challenge: Paddle Power [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th
Hands-on challenge to design and build a paddle boat that moves across water using a rubber band as its power source. Provides full list of materials with ideas on how to design, build, test, and redesign it if necessary. Activity...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Runaway Train: Investigating Speed With Photo Gates

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students conduct an experiment to determine the relationship between the speed of a wooden toy car at the bottom of an incline and the height at which it is released. They observe how the photogate-based speedometer instrument "clocks"...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: How Long Will My Sleepy Yo Yo Sleep?

For Students 9th - 10th
Yo-yo's are a fun toy and there is nothing simpler than a string wrapped between two connected disks. But there's a lot of physics that makes a yo-yo work. In this science fair project, learn more about how and why a yo-yo works. You...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Teaching Engineering Design With an Egg Drop

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students build a device to protect an egg and prevent it from breaking when dropped.
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Open Ed

Open Ed Sci: 8.1 Contact Forces

For Teachers 7th - 9th
In this unit, students explore a variety of phenomena to figure out, "Why do things sometimes get damaged when they hit each other?" Student questions about the factors that result in a shattered cell phone screen lead them to...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Mystery Mud: Exploring Changes in States of Matter

For Students 3rd - 8th
Join a group of middle-school students on a visit to a laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where they experiment with "mystery mud" and learn about the relationships between magnetism, particle motion, and changes in...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Describing the Invisible Properties of Gas

For Students 9th - 10th
This video explores how scientists use principles such as gravity to describe and study the properties of gases. [3:27] Followed by a short quiz and a list of additional resources to explore.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Power Kicks: The Physics of Martial Arts

For Students 9th - 10th
If the discipline, precision, and power of martial arts is your bag, try this project out for size. You won't be sparring with any opponent other than a swinging kick bag, but you'll learn a few powerful lessons about the physics of...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Physics 1: Linear Momentum and Collisions

For Students 9th - 10th
This physics tutorial aims to model and predict not the motion of just one object, but rather what happens when two or more objects collide. The concept of momentum will be the main focus of this module.
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City College of New York

City Technology: Fantastic Elastic

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore engineering technology with this unit. Students will study how to design and execute two types of homemade vehicles using elastic.
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Article
Exploratorium

Exploratorium: That's the Way the Ball Bounces

For Students 9th - 10th
This site explains the factors that determine whether and how much a ball bounces and includes activities to test "bounciness" for yourself!
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American Chemical Society

Middle School Chemistry: Heating and Cooling a Liquid

For Students 9th - 10th
This simulation allows students to make observations about how particle motion changes as the overall temperature of a liquid changes.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Temperature

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this interactive tutorial students will learn the physics definition of temperature, how temperature is measured and how to convert the units of temperature...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Hydrogen Oxygen Rockets

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students investigate how to build and launch a simple rocket that uses hydrogen and oxygen gases that will be mixed to propel the rocket. Students learn the principles of combustion reactions, kinetics, stoichiometry of reactions,...
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Handout
The Environmental Literacy Council

Environmental Literacy Council: Temperature

For Students 9th - 10th
The difference between heat and temperature is explained, followed by a discussion of temperature and its relation to global climate change. Gallileo Galilee, Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, Anders Celsius, and Carl Linnaeus are mentioned in...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Rotational Motion and Angular Momentum: Summary

For Students 11th - 12th
This page provides a summary of each section in Chapter 10: Rotational Motion and Angular Momentum from the AP Physics online text.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Chemical Kinetics and Alkane Nomenclature

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart covers essential concepts of factors that affect a chemical reaction and nomenclature of Alkenes.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Practice Science Questions

For Students 9th - 10th
A link to quizzes over a wide range of science topics. Students can test their knowledge on topics from the cell to kinetic energy.
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Georgia State University

Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Temperature

For Students 9th - 10th
A page describing the concept of temperature and temperature scales. An interactive JavaScript form allows the visitor to investigate the relationship between the Kelvin, Celsius and Fahrenheit scales; enter a value and allow the...
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Georgia State University

Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Thermal Expansion

For Students 9th - 10th
Defines thermal expansion and elaborates on the concept of linear expansion. Provides the equation for linear expansion and includes an interactive JavaScript form which allows the visitor to investigate the relationship between...
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Georgia State University

Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Expansion Concepts

For Students 9th - 10th
An indexing page from Georgia State University Physics Department which includes links to various other pages with information pertaining to thermal expansion. From expansion coefficients to equations to calculation and practice pages,...
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Georgia State University

Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Area Expansion

For Students 9th - 10th
The concept of area expansion is presented and explained. An equation for calculating the amount of area expansion is provided.
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Georgia State University

Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Bimetallic Strips

For Students 9th - 10th
The operation of bimetallic strips is explained and illustrated. The principle of thermal expansion is related to their operation. A link to applications of bimetallic strips is provided.

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