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Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Quick Circular Motion Calculations Challenge

For Students 9th - 10th
This challenge is designed to help students move back and forth from different circular motion ideas. These ideas include frequency, rpm, period, angular speed, linear speed, total distance and total radians.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Graphing Motion: Instantaneous and Average Speed

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students are introduced to the calculator as a graphing tool and distinguish between average speed and instantaneous speed.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Slow Down: Speed Up

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity, students' will use a motion detector to observe the effect of speeding up, slowing down, and moving at a constant rate on a Distance versus Time plot.
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Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Vertical Motion of Firework Level 4

For Students 9th - 10th
Students will set the launch speed and fuse time for a firework so that the firework will explode at the desired height and speed. This problem does not take place on Earth.
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Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Motion on Incline Level 3

For Students 9th - 10th
Students must calculate the speed of a block when it returns to its original location on an incline using Newton's Laws. Mass, angle, gravitational field, coefficient of friction and initial speed will be generated randomly.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Analyzing the Motion of a Marble Down a Ramp

For Students 9th - 10th
This lab activity involves rolling a marble down a ramp where the students can investigate constant acceleration motion. The students then make a position vs. time graph and a velocity vs. time graph in order to investigate the change in...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Graphing Your Motion

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students use a Motion Detector to measure distance and velocity. Students prepare graphs of motion and analyze them. They compare and match graphs of distance versus time and velocity versus time.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Hawaiian Islands: Volcano Ages, Hotspots and Plate Motion

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The ages of volcanic rocks are used to investigate speed of motion of the Pacific plate, to analyze the distinctive bend in the chain, and to consider the age data in the context of a hotspot model of formation.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Changes in Motion

For Students 6th - 9th
In this lesson, you will learn about position vs. time graphs and velocity vs. time graphs and how to use them to solve problems.
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BBC

Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Describing Motion Aqa

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on Distance-time graphs; the gradient of a distance-time graph represents the speed of an object.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Need for Speed Adventure 2

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students use a radio controlled car and weights to record the time of each run and determine velocity. They represent motion graphically and determine the relationship between speed, time, and weight. Students create and interpret...
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Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Finding Speed of a Satellite

For Students 9th - 10th
Students must determine speed of a satellite by timing the satellite for part of its orbit. Students must also determine the period of the orbit based on their timing.
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Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Motion on Incline Level 2

For Students 9th - 10th
Students must calculate the distance an object will move up an incline using Newton's Laws. Mass, angle, gravitational field, coefficient of friction and initial speed will be generated randomly.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Distance and Speed of Rolling Objects

For Students 9th - 10th
This project is an experiment in classical physics. You'll be following in Galileo's footsteps, and investigating Newton's laws of motion, but you'll be taking advantage of modern video recording technology to make your measurements. The...
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Middle School Science

Middle School Science: Motion Notes

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Personal site in which a teacher outlines a unit on motion. Probes through topics such as average speed, velocity, acceleration, speed, deceleration, force and more.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Physics for Kids: Speed and Velocity

For Students 4th - 8th
Kids learn about speed and velocity in the science of physics and the laws of motion including units and measurement. What is the difference between speed and velocity?
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Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Average vs.instantaneous Speed

For Students 3rd - 8th
This is an animation illustrating the distinction between the average speed and the instantaneous speed for any given motion.
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Middle School Science

Middle School Science: Motion Crossword Puzzle

For Students 9th - 10th
Let your students have a little fun and reinforce their learning of motion-related concepts at the same time.
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My Science Site

Forces and Motion [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This resource provides reproducibles that aide in student learning of force and motion. Also offers hands-on and cooperative learning activity ideas as well as an ESL/ELD activity. This resource is in PDF form; requires Adobe Reader.
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Physics4kids

Physics 4 Kids: Mechanics and Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
Motion is one of the key topics in physics. Everything in the universe moves. It might only be a small amount of movement and very very slow, but movement does happen. Don't forget that even if you appear to be standing still, the Earth...
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Other

Westerville District: Measuring Motion

For Students 6th - 8th
Learn about motion and how it is defined by a reference point.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Plix: Motion: Position Time Graphs

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Drag the red dot to draw a position-time graph for a sprinter with constant speed.
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Other

Ward's Science: Speedy Energy

For Teachers 4th - 6th
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...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Displacement During Constant Acceleration

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students solve problems involving displacement, distance, velocity, speed, and acceleration, and then explore problems and graphs involving one-dimensional motion.

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