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University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Ramp: Forces and Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore forces and motion as you push household objects up and down a ramp. Lower and raise the ramp to see how the angle of inclination affects the parallel forces.
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Rules of Forces and Motion

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
With this hands-on lesson, help learners understand force, gravity, friction, and speed. Students will also learn how each of these concepts affects the another.
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Bscs: Forces and Motion Content Background Document

For Teachers K - 1st
In this document, we will try to answer a fundamental question of physical science, "Why do things start to move, slow down, speed up, stop moving or change direction?" In answering these core questions we can develop concepts that can...
eBook
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Circular and Satellite Motion: Speed and Velocity

For Students 9th - 10th
In this interactive module, describe and explain the motion of objects that either move in circles or can be approximated to be moving in circles. Kinematic concepts and motion principles will be applied to the motion of objects in...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating Motion With Marbles

For Teachers K - 1st
For this guided inquiry activity, students will use 2 marbles of different size and a box to investigate what makes the marbles move and what will cause the marbles to change speed and direction.
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University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Forces and Motion: Basics

For Students 9th - 10th
See how forces affect various items that are pushed or pulled.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Objects in Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides flexible alternate or additional learning activities for students learning about the concepts of distance, speed, and acceleration.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Position and Displacement

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students explore and calculate an object's motion in terms of position, displacement, speed, and acceleration.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Introduction to Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
What do you think of when you hear the word motion? Are you moving right now? You may not think so, but you are. Remember, the Earth is moving around the Sun, and the Sun is moving around the Milky Way Galaxy. Everything in the universe...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physics: Motion Study Guide

For Students 9th - 10th
This study guide on motion covers some key vocabulary and terms to describe motion: displacement vs. distance, acceleration, speed vs. velocity, and instantaneous vs. average. It includes graphs showing distance vs. time, velocity vs....
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Uniform Circular Motion and Gravitation: Centripetal Forces

For Students 11th - 12th
By the end of this section, you will be able to calculate coefficient of friction on a car tire and to calculate ideal speed and angle of a car on a turn.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating Motion Graphing Speed

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this introduction to motion activity, students will get a personal understanding of speed and acceleration by experiencing it firsthand. Wheeled office chairs or other cart like devices are used to give one student a ride as a fellow...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Runaway Train: Investigating Speed With Photo Gates

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students conduct an experiment to determine the relationship between the speed of a wooden toy car at the bottom of an incline and the height at which it is released. They observe how the photogate-based speedometer instrument "clocks"...
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The Wonder of Science

The Wonder of Science: K Ps2 2: Motion Design Solution

For Teachers K - 1st
The NSTA vetted source includes resources to teach how to analyze data to determine if a design solution works as intended to change the speed or direction of an object with a push or a pull. Included are assessment ideas, videos,...
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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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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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University of California

Ucla: Speed and Velocity

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses the meaning of velocity in terms of a graphical representation. Calculus-based discussion. Good graphics.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Swing Low: Investigate the Motion of a Pendulum

For Students 3rd - 5th
Kids love to ride the swings at the playground. The back-and-forth motion of a swing demonstrates the physics of a pendulum. In this experiment, you will investigate the factors that affect the speed and duration of a pendulum's swing.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Speed & Velocity

For Students 9th - 10th
A slide show with three accompanying video lesson segments illustrating the difference between speed and velocity, and demonstrating how to calculate average speed and velocity. [6:31]
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: 2 D Projectile Motion: Vectors and Comparing Multiple Trajectories

For Students 9th - 10th
Practice problems dealing with displacement, velocity, and acceleration vectors for horizontally launched projectiles. In these practice problems, students will compare initial speed and time in the air for multiple projectiles.
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Vision Learning

Vision Learning: Physics: Waves and Wave Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
Instructional module focusing on waves and wave motion. Discussion includes wave theories, wave basics, and wave speed. The site also includes an interactive practice quiz and links relating to the topic.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physics: Circular Motion Study Guide

For Students 9th - 10th
This study guide on circular motion covers key terms, centripetal force, linear vs. circular motion, precession, and equations. Includes four example problems with detailed solutions. The guide is available for download with free...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Changes in Motion

For Students 6th - 8th
Given diagrams or scenarios, students will measure and graph changes in motion.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Speed, Velocity, and Acceleration

For Students 7th - 9th
Given descriptions, illustrations, graphs, charts, or equations, students will differentiate between speed, velocity, and acceleration.

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