Students explore fetal tissue transplantation. They research basic factual information and justify their opinions. They write a paper discussing their position. Students consider the consequences and values associated with their...

Sixth graders work to write questions for a class survey. In this survey lesson, 6th graders survey their class members by asking the 4 questions they developed and will record their answers on the culminating assessment...

Fifth graders study how the potato famine affected the Irish population. They speculate on how the Irish were viewed by the English and the new Americans. They examine why the Irish immigrated to the new colonies. and evaluate how new...

Students use video cameras as a way to analyze and understand motion.  In this motion lesson students complete an activity that helps them better understand motion  and calculate time.

Young scholars view images from Japan's Summer Festival celebration. They create a uchiwa fan to use while doing the Kuma River Dance.

Ninth graders simulate being a first-time visitor to Japan. Using the internet, pupils identify answers to given questions about Tokyo, Kyoto, and Hiroshima. Students use computer technology to type their answers. Their answers also...

Second graders explore their vocabulary by participating in a dictionary word find activity.  In this vocabulary lesson, 2nd graders locate words in a dictionary based on the beginning letter which must match the teacher's...

Young scholars investigate the concepts that focuses upon the musical rhythms. They conduct class discussion and use questions in order to clear up any misconceptions. Students create art compositions that illustrate rhythm and then...

Explore how different frames of reference affect your perception of motion in this interactive activity from the American Museum of Natural History.

In this lab activity, young scholars investigate the concept of frame of reference by observing, describing and drawing the same walking motion from different positions. Additionally, they determine the effect of frame of reference on...

Use this interactive physics simulation to determine how perception of motion changes with the frame of reference. The simulation introduces the principles of motion with respect to frame of reference.

By the end of this section, you will be able to discuss the inertial frame of reference, discuss the non-inertial frame of reference, and describe the effects of the Coriolis force.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Relative motion is always measured with a frame of reference. Evaluate a variety of frames of reference and inertial frames to understand relative motion.

A resource featuring the Principle of Relativity. Discover what develops based on the premise of this principle.

In the following interactive students will begin to discuss the inertial frame of reference and the non-inertial frame of reference. They will also describe the effects of the Coriolis force.

This site from Stanford University is on the topic of simultaneity in relativity.

By the end of this section, you will be able to define mass and inertia and to understand Newton's First Law of Motion: There exists an inertial frame of reference such that a body at rest remains at rest, or, if in motion, remains in...

Explore the effects of drawing in a straight line within a rotating frame of reference. This activity requires a turntable. If this is unavailable, a cake turntable with a glued-on center post might work as well.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Definition of motion and how it is related to frame of reference.

Cover standards for middle school force, mass, and the motion of an object with this site. Find work samples, phenomena, assessment templates, and videos that directly address standard.

Student groups explore propulsion technology necessary for the Dawn project to complete its mission. Learning module components include story mapping, online interactive activity, RAFT writing exercise, and other standards-aligned...

Students learn about the Foucault pendulum, an engineering tool used to demonstrate and measure the Earth's rotation. Student groups then create small experimental versions, each comprised of a pendulum and a video camera mounted on a...

An exhibition that uses African art to explain the concepts of bigness and smallness. In the world of art, big and small can refer not only to physical size but to relative size, to the impression an object makes, or to the largeness of...

This lesson should help a learner understand what a reference frame is and why it is used. It is 3 of 3 in the series titled "Introduction to Reference Frames."