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PBS

Pbs: Commanding Heights the Battle for the World Economy

For Students 9th - 10th
A huge site dedicated to an understanding of the current global economic system. Includes the history, forces, values and perceptions that have shaped the world's economy. A comprehensive resource that includes a detailed economic report...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating Motion Graphing Speed

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this introduction to motion activity, students will get a personal understanding of speed and acceleration by experiencing it firsthand. Wheeled office chairs or other cart like devices are used to give one student a ride as a fellow...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12 Exploration Series: Simulations: Physics: Tire Pressure

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Uncover the relationship between pressure, force, and contact area in the context of a fire truck. Play with vehicle mass, number of tires, and guage pressure with this simulation to see what...
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BioEd Online

Bio Ed Online: Center of Gravity

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In the following lesson middle schoolers will learn about center of gravity and how the body adjusts to the force of gravity to remain balanced.
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Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Third Law of Motion

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This Illinois Institute of Technology site provides a teacher lesson plan for an activity in which students use spring balances and carts to investigate the action-reaction relationship for any given force. Includes directions, materials...
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Catapult Creations

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders learn how a catapult works and build their own.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Ruff Ruffman Show: Teacher's Guide: Sports Science

For Teachers K - 1st
Learn about sports science and force and motion alongside Ruff Ruffman.
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National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Charles Augustin De Coulomb

For Students 9th - 10th
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb invented a device, dubbed the torsion balance, that allowed him to measure very small charges and experimentally estimate the force of attraction or repulsion between two charged bodies. The data he obtained...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Watching Your Weight Ti 83

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students examine how moving a weight up along a board affects the downward force on the board. They explore how children with different weights can be balanced on a seesaw.
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Concord Consortium

The Concord Consortium: Molecular Workbench: Weight Balance on a Pulley

For Students 9th - 10th
Watch how the placement of two weights attached to a chain on different sides of a pulley affect the movement of the system. You can adjust the heaviness of the weights.
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Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Inertia and Mass

For Students 9th - 10th
This is part of a lesson on Newton's Laws of Motion that focuses on inertia and mass. It restates Newton's first law of motion. The lesson also gives a helpful visual description concerning friction.
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Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Nonbonding

For Students 9th - 10th
Bring two molecules together and observe potential energy changes.
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Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Take It From the Top

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students defy gravity by stacking blocks in different ways in this exercise. Other projects are linked to this lesson as well.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: A Physical Model of Human Sitting

For Students 9th - 10th
Practice for the MCAT with this passage, diagram, and question about equilibrium and translational motion.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Walking Coins on a (Vertical!) 'High Wire'

For Students 9th - 10th
Here is a project that is almost like a magic trick: with a strong magnet and a simple apparatus you can build yourself, you can make a coin "walk" up and down a wire coat hanger. This project is an interesting way to learn about the...
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Submarine Race Experiment

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Balance the force of gravity with the force of the expanding gasses created by mixing baking soda and vinegar. Create a soda bottle submarine that sinks to the bottom of the bathtub and then rises back to the surface.
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University of Virginia

University of Virginia: Rotational Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
A page describing rotational equilibrium and non-equilibrium situations. Includes graphics, equations, and many examples.
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Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Cavendish and the Value of G

For Students 9th - 10th
A short description of how Cavendish measured the value of G - the universal gravitation constant and supported Newton's theory. Illustrated.
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SMART Technologies

Smart: Science Choice Board Newton's Laws of Motion

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students level up learning by completing Newton's Laws of Motion task cards including all levels of Bloom's taxonomy.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Lifter (Ehd Thrusters)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students teams each assemble a wing component of a lifter with the goal to test the lifter wing and measure the force exerted when high voltage is applied to it. After an introduction to torque and its use to measure force, students...
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US House of Representatives

History, Art, and Archives: Changing Social and Institutional Perceptions

For Students 9th - 10th
The problem faced by congresswomen and other women in society in post-war America was how to balance domestic responsibilities and professional life. Times were changing and congresswomen began to buck traditional congressional practices...
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Digital History

Digital History: September 11, 2001

For Students 9th - 10th
This site has a comprehensive overview of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the U.S., including information on Osama bin Laden's background, the formation of Al Qaeda, the attacks themselves, the US response, civil liberties and national...
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University of Virginia

Miller Center at Uva: u.s. Presidents: Herbert Hoover

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource contains a detailed biography on Herbert Hoover. From the left-hand toolbar, select information on his life before the presidency, campaigns and elections, domestic affairs, foreign affairs, and life after the presidency....
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Untamed Science

Untamed Science: Competition

For Students 9th - 10th
This well-written article explains what competition in an ecosystem is and the different ways it can manifest itself. It also looks at how organisms avoid competition, some disadvantages and outcomes of competition, the impact of a...

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