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Ocean Park Hong Kong

For Students 9th - 10th
This site offers a description of this seaworld-like park. It is a very colorful and informative site with a lot of information about the park. Follow the 'Education' link at the bottom to access the section with learning activities.
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Virtual Museum of Canada

Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: Summers by the Lake: The History of Grimsby Park

For Students 9th - 10th
The development of Grimsby Park, Ontario is profiled. It started as the home of early United Empire Loyalists,then temperance camps, and later to an amusement park and beach. The era ended as the town became part of big city urban...
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Crystal Beach, Ontario

For Students 9th - 10th
Crystal Beach in Fort Erie, Ontario was, until 1989, the home to an amusement park and a famous roller coaster, the Crystal Beach Cyclone. Information is provided on the history of this popular Ontario vacation spot.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Converting Potential Energy to Kinetic Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
If you'd like to investigate the physics of amusement park rides, then this project is for you. You'll build a roller coaster track for marbles using foam pipe insulation and masking tape, and see how much the marble's potential energy...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: What Rides Can You Go On?

For Teachers 6th - 7th
What rides can you go on? Students connect inequalities with an amusement park's height requirements to figure out which rides they can go on.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Swinging Pendulum

For Teachers 7th - 9th
This activity demonstrates how potential energy (PE) can be converted to kinetic energy (KE) and back again. Given a pendulum height, students calculate and predict how fast the pendulum will swing by understanding conservation of energy...
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Puhinui School: The Atoms Family: The Mummy's Tomb: Raceways

For Students 3rd - 8th
Help the Mummy build a rollercoaster to entertain the Atoms Family monsters by investigating the concepts of kinetic and potential energy.
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Walter Fendt

Walter Fendt: Model of a Carousel: Centripetal Force

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource features an applet that models the motion of a carousel ride at an amusement park to demonstrate centripetal force. The motion parameters can be modified and seen in the animation.

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