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Murder Mystery
High schoolers examine how to capture foot prints while they simulate a criminal investigation. They discover how the clues are needed for identifying or eliminating murder suspects.
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Planet Impact
Pupils use their knowledge to crash a comet into Jupiter or make a comet fly past the planet without colliding with it.
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Science Questions Module 5
In this science learning exercise, middle schoolers find the answers to significant questions about speed and velocity while looking for meaning with the help of others in class or online from a homework buddy.
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Drag Problem Set
Students read an explanation from a NASA Web-based textbook and then demonstrate an understanding of the text by applying it to calculating drag of both full-sized and model gliders.
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Curveball vs. Fastball
Learners graph the relationship between the release point and the final position of curveballs and fastballs thrown by both right and left handers given a constant speed, and explain the relationships illustrated by the graphs of data.
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The Baseball and Air
Young scholars use Curveball to complete the activity to determine how the speed of airstreams changes in relation to changes in the distance of the airstream from the center of the baseball.
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Did You Catch My Drift?
Students, through the use of the Curveball interactive software package, become familiar with the way in which the flow of air across or around an object affects its ability to lift, spin, and curve. After reading the explanation given...
South Carolina Educational Television
Etv: The Hobby Shop: Balloon Blast
Design a catapult, blast a balloon into the air, and try to hit the target the first time. If you miss, adjust the velocity and angle to reach the desired trajectory.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Vectors and Projectiles: Projectile Simulator
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...
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Vectors and Projectiles: The Monkey and the Zookeeper
In this simulation, students pretend to launch bananas from a canon to the monkeys at the zoo. The monkeys sometimes let go of the branch at the exact moment the banana is launched. So the students must determine the correct aim angle...
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Vectors and Projectiles: Maximum Range
Students can imagine a cannonball launched at three different launch angles where the speed is held constant; only the angle is changed. The cannonballs do not encounter a significant amount of air resistance. How will the trajectories...