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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Projectile Magic

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students watch video clips from October Sky and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone to learn about projectile motion. They explore the relationships between displacement, velocity and acceleration and calculate simple projectile...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Projectile Motion

For Students 7th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Projectile motion and combining forces, examples of projectile motion.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: What Is 2 D Projectile Motion?

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about how things fly through the air.
Handout
Purple Math

Purplemath: Quadratic Word Problems: Projectile Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
Launching a rocket up into the air, throwing a textbook down off a rooftop, or tossing a baseball out to someone in center field are all examples of projectile motion and quadratic word problems. Situations like these are explored here,...
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Google

Google for Education: Modeling Projectile Motion Using Computational Thinking

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this demonstration, students see how they can model the phenomenon of projectiile motion with computational thinking in order to make predictions and better understand the concepts.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Projectile Motion

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity assesses students' knowledge and understanding of projectile motion.
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Projectile Motion

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students can use the calculator's differential equation graphing mode to model projectile motion. They analyze time-height data for a falling object using the statistical features of the calculator. They also compare...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Magical Motion

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students watch video clips from the October Sky and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone movies to see examples of projectile motion. Then they explore the relationships between displacement, velocity and acceleration, and calculate...
Interactive
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Vectors and Projectiles: Projectile Simulator

For Students 9th - 10th
Students explore a variety of variables associated with the trajectory of a projectile including the launch height, angle, and speed. This interactive can be used as a purely exploratory activity or be used with an activity sheet that...
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Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Motion/forces in Two Dimensions: Projectile's Trajectory

For Students 9th - 10th
This illustrated tutorial discusses the horizontal and vertical components of a projectile's motion; specific attention will be given to the presence/absence of forces, accelerations, and velocity.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Constructing a Projectile Launcher and Free Falling Target

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Implement the classic physics demonstration "the monkey and the hunter" using this description of a projectile launcher and a target that begins to fall at the same time the projectile is launched. The completed project is a spectacular...
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Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Vectors Motion and Forces in Two Dimensions

For Students 9th - 10th
Three complete tutorials on vectors and two dimension forces and motion. Lessons include informational text, interactive activities, animations, and quick, interactive comprehension checks along the way.
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University of New South Wales (Australia)

University of New South Wales: School of Physics: Physclips: Projectiles

For Students 9th - 10th
Physiclips introduces the concept of projectiles with animations and film clips.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Circular Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In the following lesson students will be asked to analyze and describe accelerated motion in two dimensions using equations including circular examples.
Interactive
Walter Fendt

Walter Fendt: Projectile Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
A short interactive activity to show the movement of a projectile. You can change the values of the initial height, velocity, angle of inclination, the mass and the gravitational acceleration.
Activity
Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Speed of Horizontal Projectile

For Students 9th - 10th
Students must determine the horizontal speed of a projectile based on the distance that it travels and other given information. Students must find the time of flight and put it in milliseconds. Finally, students must find the final...
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Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Projectiles

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Lesson plan in which students will observe demonstrations and interact with various objects dealing with projectile motion. Subject matter for intermediate or middle school.
Interactive
American Association of Physics Teachers

Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Projectile Motion With Angry Birds

For Students 9th - 10th
Analyze the path of a bird's flight as it attempts to obliterate pigs in the well-known game, Angry Birds. Comes with lab activities, a video, and a simulation. The latter requires software called Tracker, which is free to download.
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Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Practice Problems: Parametric Equations and Projectile Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
Six problems offer practice working with parametric equations and projectile motion. They are given with each step to the solution cleverly revealed one at a time. You can work each step of the problem then click the "View Solution"...
eBook
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Horizontally Launched Projectile Problems

For Students 9th - 10th
In the case of projectiles, students use information about the initial velocity and position of a projectile to predict such things as how much time the projectile is in the air and how far the projectile will go. They do this to make...
eBook
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Motion and Forces in Two Dimensions: What Is a Projectile

For Students 9th - 10th
Students apply both kinematic principles and Newton's laws of motion to understand and explain the motion of objects moving in two dimensions, more specifically, the motion of projectiles.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Analyzing Two Dimensional Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
Given descriptions, illustrations, graphs, charts, or equations, students will analyze motion in two dimensions, including projectile and circular motion.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Angled Launch Projectile Vectors

For Students 9th - 10th
Can you predict how the components of projectile's velocity and acceleration change during their trajectory? This practice includes questions for students to test their problem solving skills with angled launch projectile vectors.
eBook
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Circular and Satellite Motion: Principles for Satellites

For Students 9th - 10th
Students explore how a satellite's motion is governed by the same physics principles and described by the same mathematical equations.

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