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Students demonstrate the meaning of relative mass and set up a scale of relative masses. Full Review »
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Students investigate the thought experiments that led Einstein to his special theory of relativity, along with his quest to explain the unified field theory. Full Review »
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Students explore the concept of frames of reference in physics. Full Review »
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Students research Albert Einstein and the two parts of the Relativity Theory. Full Review »
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Students examine the concept of frames of reference in physics: that two frames of reference, each moving with respect to the other with a constant velocity v, observe the same accelerations and therefore Newton's laws are the same in both. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students learn the concept of frames of reference in physics. They examine how two frames of reference, each moving with respect to the other with a constant velocity v (constant speed, constant direction). Full Review »
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- 9th - 10th
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Students work in groups analyzing different scenarios to explain the critical issue of frame of reference. They create and present a short skit, based on information from their research, that describes a trip to a nearby solar system. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students compare and contrast the Big Bang Theory and the Cyclic Universe Model. They explain basic properties of the univers which make life possible. They evaluate ideas about the origin of the universe as to their scientific value. Full Review »
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Students examine the concept of relative dating. They observe a teacher demonstration of geologic layers with a sandwich representing the various layers, analyze a cross section of bedrock, and create a drawing of a cross section of bedrock that includes an intrusion, extrusion, inclusion, and fossils. Full Review »
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Students examine how nuclear reactions differ from other chemical reactions they have studied. They add up atomic masses of both the product and reactant side of an example of uranium decomposition, demonstrating mass loss involved. Full Review »

