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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Bouncing Balls

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students explore the concept of gravity. In this gravity instructional activity, students drop super balls from varying heights. Students record the height of the super ball on bounce zero and bounce one.
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Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Under Pressure: Ball Bouncing Dynamics

For Students 6th - 8th
Many sports use a ball in some way or another. We throw them, dribble them, hit them, kick them, and they always bounce back. What makes a ball so bouncy? In this experiment you can investigate the effect of air pressure on ball bouncing.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Bouncing Ball

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this experiment, students collect the height versus time data of a bouncing ball using the CBR 2. This activity investigates the values of height, time, and the coefficient A in the quadratic equation, which describes the behavior of...
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Interactive
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Straight Ahead Animation (Practice)

For Students 9th - 10th
Try to make an animation of a bouncing ball by positioning the ball in each frame.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Linear Interpolation

For Students 9th - 10th
In this 7-problem quiz/practice, calculate the position of a point using linear interpolation.
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Activity
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Squash and Stretch Animation With Bezier Curves

For Students 9th - 10th
In this practice exercise students use the program below to create an animation of a bouncing ball. See if you can get the ball to squash as it hits the ground and stretch as it bounces back.
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Activity
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Save Your Animation

For Students 9th - 10th
Make and save your own animation! Use the program below to build your animation. Now you can move the ball anywhere as well as rotate it. Use the x and y avars to position the ball. Use the s avar to control the stretch and squash, and...
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Lesson Plan
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Hands on Activity: Animating Luxo Jr.

For Students 4th - 8th
Begin your career as an animator now! This instructional activity is a series of hand-drawn challenges which will introduce some basic animation principles and get you thinking about the physics of motion.