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Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Measuring Speed of Moving Objects With Stroboscopic Photography

For Students 9th - 10th
A strobe light can illuminate an entire room in just tens of microseconds. Inexpensive strobe lights can flash up to 10 or 20 times per second. This project shows you how to use stroboscopic photography to analyze motion.
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Article
Open Curriculum

Open Curriculum: Newton's Laws in Three Dimensions

For Students 9th - 10th
Students can use this article to learn about forces and motions in three dimensions.
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Article
Open Curriculum

Open Curriculum: Vectors and Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn more about the properties of velocity, acceleration, and force vectors in this illustrated article.
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Article
Open Curriculum

Open Curriculum: Velocity and Relative Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
An illustrated article helps physics students learn about center of mass and velocity, and define the concept of inertia.
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: What Is Color?

For Students 9th - 10th
Colm Kelleher describes the physics behind colors- why the colors we see are related to the period of motion and the frequency of waves. [3:09]
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Article
Open Curriculum

Open Curriculum: Free Waves

For Students 9th - 10th
With this article, students can learn about and understand the concept of wave motion.
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Interactive
American Association of Physics Teachers

Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Simultaneity Spacetime Diagram

For Students 9th - 10th
Manipulate variables in order to observe the effects of relative motion on events such as an explosion and the time at which its light signal reaches a destination.
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Activity
PBS

Pbs Kids: Zoom Printables & Activities

For Students 3rd - 8th
Fantastic variety of printable activities that cover motion-related principles. Topics include the following: experiments (engineering, structures, forces and energy, fluids, sound and light, patterns, human body); arts & crafts;...
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Handout
Science4Fun

Science4 Fun: Thomas Edison

For Students K - 1st
Brief biographical sketch of Thomas Alva Edison, inventor of the light bulb and phonograph.
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Lesson Plan
Library of Congress

Loc: Learning Page: Thomas Edison

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This resource provides lesson plans and information about Thomas Edison and his inventions.
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Handout
US Department of Labor

Bureau of Labor Statistics: Film and Video Editors and Camera Operators

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides information about careers in audio/visual technology and film, including camera operators.
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Interactive
American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: Stuff to Do: Views From Windows

For Students 9th - 10th
Instructions that take you through an Einstein-like thought experiment by having you imagine and record what you see when stationary and when moving at the speed of light.
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Website
Stanford University

Stanford University: Conventionality of Simultaneity

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Stanford University is on the topic of simultaneity in relativity.
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Article
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Einstein: How Smart Was He?

For Students 9th - 10th
This essay from the NOVA Web site explores the impact Einstein made on physics and most everything we know about the cosmos.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Wave Speed Calculations

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students investigate and analyze characteristics of waves, including velocity, and calculate the relationship between wave speed, frequency, and wavelength.
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Article
PBS

Pbs Nova: Relativity and the Cosmos

For Students 9th - 10th
This well-written explanation of relativity includes animations and pictures which may be helpful in understanding a tough topic.
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Article
Open Curriculum

Open Curriculum: Vibrations

For Students 9th - 10th
To understand the concept and properties of vibrations and periodic motions such as the Simple Harmonic motion.
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Handout
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Harcourt: Biographies: Thomas Edison

For Students 9th - 10th
A good description of the inventions and life of this bright and ambitious man. As inventor of the light bulb, phonograph, movie camera and many others, Edison lived a very inspiring life. In Spanish.
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Handout
Science Struck

Science Struck: Kinetic Energy Formula

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains what is meant by kinetic energy and demonstrates how to use the formulas for a point mass moving at less than the speed of light, for rotational motion, and for a mass moving at a relativistic speed. Includes interactive...
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: The Fundamentals of Space Time: Part 2

For Students 9th - 10th
In this second installment of a three-part series on space-time, CERN scientists Andrew Pontzen and Tom Whyntie use a space-time diagram to analyze the sometimes confounding motion of light. [4:50]
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Interactive
American Association of Physics Teachers

Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Ejs Simultaneity Model

For Students 9th - 10th
A model for examining the simultaneity of two events where the relative velocity and the wave source, either light or sound, can be manipulated.
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Article
Open Curriculum

Open Curriculum: Conservation of Angular Momentum

For Students 9th - 10th
Students learn the concept of angular momentum of objects in two dimensions and how rotational motion is determined.
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Article
Open Curriculum

Open Curriculum: The Atom

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about atoms and their properties of motion with this illustrated article.
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Lesson Plan
NASA

Nasa: Kepler: A Search for Habitable Planets: Transit Tracks

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Classroom lesson for teaching astronomy uses PowerPoint presentations and illustrations of Kepler's light curves used to discover planets.

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