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It's About Time

A Moving Frame of Reference

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
We often remind pupils to cite their references, but this lesson helps them understand there are many frames of reference. Scholars experiment with throwing a ball straight up in the air and catching it. Then they must do it again while...
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EZ Task

Forces

For Students 6th - 8th
Investigate force, acceleration, Newtons, and vectors with this learning exercise packet that starts with an overview fact sheet for reference. Learners label images as either push or pull forces, indicating if the force causes a change...
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It's About Time

Circular Motion

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Lead your class in this exciting activity to learn more about motion and its importance. Pupils learn about a centripetal and why it is required to maintain a constant speed in a circulating moving mass. They apply the equation for...
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Tech Museum of Innovation

Balloon Astronaut

For Teachers 2nd - 8th Standards
Design protection from high-speed particles. The STEM lesson plan highlights why astronauts need protection from space debris. Pupils use the design process to design, build, and test a spacesuit that will protect a balloon from a...
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Teach Engineering

Exploring Energy: Kinetic and Potential

For Teachers 5th - 6th Standards
The potential of the energy in the class is moving. The third segment in a six-part unit on energy provides a deeper understanding of kinetic and potential energy. Learners understand the relationship between mass, speed, and energy and...
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Science 4 Inquiry

Fluid Streams Affecting Weather

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
The jet stream can reach speeds of up to 250 miles per hour. Scholars learn about the jet stream and ocean currents as they rotate through stations. They answer questions leading them to understand the impact these fluid streams have on...
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Curated OER

Speed Trap

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students conceptually explore motion graphing by producing motion at different speeds and directions. They experience the lab and then graph the motion of the truck at various speeds and directions. The procedures of velocity are...
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Curated OER

Impulsive Force Model

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
For this impulsive force worksheet, students calculate speed, force, and velocity for several word problems as it relates to the concepts in physics. Students also apply the momentum conservation equation to each problem.
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Curated OER

Space Ship Pilot

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students visualize the relation between acceleration and velocity in 2 dimensions. They are introduced to Newton's first law,and Newton's second law. Students work on an exploration activity where they condsider an example of a...
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Curated OER

Flying With Mathematics!

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders fly miniature airplanes to discover characteristics related to velocity and average speed. After measuring the time and distance of their flights, 3rd graders calculate the average velocity of their planes.
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Curated OER

Acceleration

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers develop an understanding of velocity and to distinguish it from speed. To determine the difference between a scalar and a vector quantity. To explore how acceleration is derived from velocity and time.
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Curated OER

Battery Operated Model Car Experiments

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students time battery operated cars over a set track and determine the velocity of each type of car. They use the cars as manipulatives to demonstrate word problems involving velocity.
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Curated OER

The Sounds of Summer

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Learners experiment with measuring the speed of sound in an open field by clapping hands and measuring the time delay between the clap and hearing the sound at a long distance. Students practice solving equations at completion of activity.
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Curated OER

Precalculus Worksheet 8.3

For Students 10th - 12th
In the precalculus worksheet, learners compute vectors and angle directions from given equations. They read and interpret information from three word problems to determine direction, speed, and the velocity vector in navigation problems.
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Curated OER

Einstein's Big Idea

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate the meaning of c2 in E=mc2 by measuring the energy delivered by an object falling at different velocities. They state that kinetic energy is the energy of an object in motion. Students illustrate how kinetic energy...
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Curated OER

Matter in Motion

For Students 6th - 8th
For this matter in motion worksheet, students answer the provided questions as it relates to motion, speed, velocity, and acceleration. Students mark given statements as either true or false.
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Curated OER

How Fast Is that Rocket?

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders calculate the speed of a falling object using measurements from a falling rocket. They report data from their data sheet to the teacher to record on the board or on the overhead transparency and discuss the results with...
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Curated OER

Simple Machines make work easier.

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine how simple machine work can make work easier.  For this machines lesson students complete an activity that shows them what makes up a machine, and how to measure displacement and velocity. 
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Curated OER

Electrons and Atoms

For Students Higher Ed
In this atoms worksheet, students determine the velocity, wavelength, power, and frequency of given atoms. Student describe wave-particle duality and give the principle and angular quantum numbers for given orbitals. This worksheet has...
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Curated OER

Animating Motion

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students apply what they recall about objects in motion by animati ng sequences of pictures that model a set of physical conditions. They animate the orbital motions of the Earth, the space shuttle, and the Moon based on calculations of...
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Curated OER

Pitot Tube Problem Set

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students read a NASA Web-based text and use its information to complete an activity which uses a pitot tube to calculate the speed of an airplane.
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Curated OER

Kepler's Second Law

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore orbital velocities and how they vary along each orbit, according to Kepler's Second Law.
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Curated OER

Motion Capture and Analysis

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate the concepts and relationships of speed, displacement and time. They capture the serve motion of a tennis player via video or digital camera and analyze the speed of the ball and racquet head.
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Curated OER

That Mu You Do

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students discussion frictional force, kinetic friction, and static friction and the role each plays in acceleration and velocity in relationship to a car and the road on which it is traveling. Students complete lesson answering review...

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