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Students attempt to use Newton's Laws during building and launching of bottle rockets, calculate velocity and altitude of rocket launches using formulas and determine the best design for a bottle rocket. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students derive the velocity in a circular orbit of any radius. They derive the Earth escape velocity and prove Kepler's 3rd law for circular orbits # A simple formula for the orbital period in a circular Earth orbit of given radius. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students explore orbital velocities and how they vary along each orbit, according to Kepler's Second Law. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students use Kepler's third law to derive the velocity in a circular orbit of any radius, and identify the Earth escape velocity. Full Review »
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- 8th - 10th
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Students research laws concerning drinking and driving. They investigate the rights and responsibilities of the public and the police by responding to given scenarios. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students identify and disuss the various laws that are in place in their commmunity. In groups, they illustrate the different laws and write a description. As a class, they discuss the reasons why the laws are necessary and their responiblity to follow them. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students explore the steps a bill must pass through to become a law and create a flow chart that maps the complexities of the process. They research the committees that are involved in a bill that relates to energy policy and the environment. Full Review »
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- 10th - 12th
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Students explore Ohm's Law. Following given instructions, students build a physical model of a conductor. They observe a relationship between the current, voltage and resistance in a conductor. After experiments, students explain the effect of a resistance in a conductor. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students are introduced to Newton's Laws. They are shown excerpts from Road Runner, and students are asked to write new laws of their own, and then constrast them to the behavior of real world objects in motion, and to Newton's Laws. Students are shown an excerpt of Daffy Duck as he steps off a cliff, which shows students that any body suspended in space remains in space until made aware of its situation. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students identify opposing forces both in words and with free body diagrams and explain how Newton's Third Law applies to a given situation. They explain how to draw force arrows on diagrams, using the spring scale activity and walking as two examples. Full Review »
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