CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Episd: Net Force
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Understand the physics that occurs in a game of tug-of-war.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Impulse
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this online tutorial students will be asked to calculate the impulse applied to a physical system.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Friction
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this module, students learn what causes friction, what factors affect friction, and how it is calculated.
Other
Mattel: Hot Wheels: Speedometry
This resource is part of a two unit curriculum designed for fourth-graders using the 5E Instructional Model (Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate and Evaluate) to support students as they investigate the effect that height and other...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Lifting the Load
Discover how much force is needed to lift objects without and with a pulley.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Catapult Creations
Third graders learn how a catapult works and build their own.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Trb 3:4 Investigation 4 Roller Coaster Fun
Third graders will design and build a roller coaster to help understand gravity.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Trb 3:3 Investigation 5 Balloon Rockets
Learn about the relationship between the force applied to an object and the resulting motion.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Tubularastic Roller Coaster
Third graders will understand the effect of gravity on objects.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Trb 3:4 Investigation 2 Jump
Third graders will learn that gravity has more of a pulling force with heavy objects than light objects.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Trb 3:3 Investigation 2 Zoom Balls
Third graders will use Zoom Balls to understand how sometimes both forces of push and pull need to be used at the same time.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Tissue Parachutes
Third graders create their own parachutes to understand the concept of gravity and the effect it has on objects.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Trb 3:3 Investigation 4 Collision Zone
Learn how forces of push and pull can change speed or direction.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Newton's Triple Play: Baseball Science
In this lesson, students watch a video and animations that relate Isaac Newton's three laws of motion to baseball and apply what they've learned about these laws to another sport or other real-life situation.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: 3 M Young Scientist Lab: Salt Engineering
Salt crystals demonstrate how forces can be directed in mechanical systems.
University of Florida
Florida Museum of Natural History: Physical Science
This guide focuses on four physical science topics that fascinate children and scientists alike. They are motion, magnets, sound, and light. With your guidance and support, these topics provide children with many opportunities to explore...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Teaching Engineering Design With an Egg Drop
Learners build a device to protect an egg and prevent it from breaking when dropped.
Other
Bscs: Forces Lesson 1: What Makes Something Start to Move?
Through hands-on activities, this lesson will show students that a force is a push or a pull and forces cause changes in motion. Included are a minute-by-minute lesson plan, activities, and teacher discussion points and questions.
Children's Museum
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis: Build a Parachute
Learners create a parachute to explore how air pushes up against an object and slows it down as it falls.
Children's Museum
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis: Curious Scientific Investigators: Flight Adventures
Students will make paper rockets, parachutes, and foam gliders to experience how objects move through the air. Explore topics such as thrust, weight, gravity, force, and lift through fun activities and stories and cutting-edge work done...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Sesame Street
Do you know how to get to Sesame Street? This collection is designed to engage preschoolers in everyday learning by teaching core skills in Math, Literacy, STEM, and Social and Emotional Development. Here you'll find hundreds of videos,...
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Tire Forces
Explore what happens when a force is exerted on a rubber tire with many different types of materials.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Open Course Ware: Force and Potential Energy
The activity investigates conservation of energy. Some topics explored are friction, kinetic energy, conservation of energy, and potential energy. The resource consists of video clips, lecture notes, practice problems, and exam...
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Paper Airplanes
At this site students will use origami to fold a paper airplane that fly better than the classic dart airplane.