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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Help Wanted: A Lighting Engineer For Popular Rock Group

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students are assigned to groups, and determine each member's role in the group. They will design an experiment to determine a way to produce the three primary and five secondary colors. Students discuss color and mood. They listen to a...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Eratosthenes And Radius of the Earth

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners calculate the radius of the earth. They use the method and data suggested by Eratosthenes. They investigate the interrelationships among mass, distance, force, and time through experimental processes.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Mathematical Models with Applications: The Sounds of Music

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Pupils use an electronic data-collection device to model the sound produced by a guitar string. They identify the graph of a periodic situation and use the graph to determine the period and frequency of sound waves.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

In your Science! - Merging Art and Science

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders reflect on what they have learned throughout the unit.  In this Science instructional activity, 9th graders demonstrate how working together can produce an informative useful project.   
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Space Ship Pilot

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students visualize the relationship between acceleration and velocity as they maneuver a model spaceship in a 2-dimensional applet.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Looking into Eratosthenes' Radius of the Earth

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students, in small groups, research Eratosthenes and his calculations of the Earth's radius. They write a summary of the person, the experiments and his calculations to determine how accurate Eratosthenes was in his estimations of the...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Help! I'm Under Too Much Pressure!

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Pupils play with a ping pong ball sized piece of modeling clay observing what happens to the clay as they play with it and write their observations in their notebooks. They share the results of their observations introducing the term...
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Interactive
Wisc-Online

Wisc Online: Physics: Newton's Laws

For Students 9th - 10th
Play this game to review for a physical science test on Newton's laws.
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Study Guide
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Force and Newton's Laws: Problems and Exercises

For Students 11th - 12th
This page offers 57 problems/exercises based on the content of Chapter 4: Dynamics: Force and Newton's Laws from the AP Physics online text.
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Unit Plan
University of New South Wales (Australia)

University of New South Wales: School of Physics: Physclips: Newton's Laws

For Students 9th - 10th
Physiclips thoroughly presents Newton's laws with animations and film clips.
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eBook
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Static Electricity: Newton's Laws and Electrical Force

For Students 9th - 10th
How do Newton's Laws connect with electrical forces? This overview illustrates how they blend together. After studying this explanation, test understanding with the review questions provided.
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eBook
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Newton's Laws: Double Trouble

For Students 9th - 10th
Through the use of free-body diagrams and Newton's laws, students analyze the motion of two objects together.
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Unit Plan
OpenStax

Open Stax: Further Applications of Newton's Laws of Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
In the following interactive students will begin to apply problem-solving techniques to solve for quantities in more complex systems of forces. They will also integrate concepts from kinematics to solve problems using Newton's laws of...
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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Newton's Laws of Motion and Projectiles

For Students 9th - 10th
Through informational text, interactive activities, practice problems, online labs, virtual simulations, and video clips, students learn about Newton's Laws of Motion.
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eBook
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Newton's Laws

For Students 9th - 10th
A four-lesson e-textbook covering topics in Newton's Laws. Tutorials include informational text,animations, interactive activities, and quick, interactive comprehension checks throughout the lessons.
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Handout
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Glossary for Forces and Newton's Laws

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a glossary of terms and definitions used in Chapter 4: Force and Newton's Laws of Motion from the AP Physics online text.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Force and Newton's Laws: Section Summary

For Students 11th - 12th
This page summarizes each section of Chapter 4: Dynamics: Force and Newton's Laws of Motion in the AP Physics online text. These include Newton's three laws of motion and application of those and other forces.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Force and Newton's Laws: Conceptual Questions

For Students 11th - 12th
This page offers 27 questions to test students' knowledge of the major concepts in each section of Chapter 4: Dynamics: Force and Newton's Laws of Motion from the AP Physics online text.
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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Physics 1: Applications of Newton's Laws of Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
Students apply Newton's laws to more diverse physical settings where multiple forces from varying origins interact. To aid in condensing the physical setting into mathematical expressions, the free body diagram is used in this module...
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Website
NASA

Nasa: Rockets Educator Guide: Applying Newton's Laws

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn how Newton's Laws apply to rocketry. Discover how rockets work, including the engines and propellants.
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eBook
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Newton's Laws: Newton's First Law

For Students 9th - 10th
In this illustrated introduction of Newton's Laws of Motion, the ways in which motion can be explained will be discussed.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: 4.7 Further Applications of Newton's Laws of Motion

For Students 11th - 12th
By the end of this section, you will be able to apply problem-solving techniques to solve for quantities in more complex systems of forces and to integrate concepts from kinematics to solve problems using Newton's laws of motion.
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Handout
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Problem Solving Strategies for Newton's Laws of Motion

For Students 11th - 12th
By the end of this section, you will be able to apply a problem-solving procedure to solve problems using Newton's laws of motion.
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eBook
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Newton's Laws: The Big Misconception

For Students 9th - 10th
While most people know what Newton's laws say, many people do not know what they mean. This tutorial allows students the ability to understand their meaning and to believe their implications.