Students study straight line motion and motion due to gravity.  In this motion lesson plan students analyze several experiments. 

In this let's write a newspaper story instructional activity, students choose a story, explain why they chose this story, then write what they will do to make this a successful newspaper story.

In this U.S. history worksheet, students read assigned textbook pages on different topics associated with the Cold War and respond to 50 short answer questions.

Eleventh graders determine how causation shaped the Cuban Missile Crisis. In this Cold War lesson plan, 11th graders examine photographs and documents related to the crisis and analyze the television address that President Kennedy made...

Students are in scattered formation within the playing area. The activity begins with all of students being "it". They move about the general space tagging various classmates while avoiding being tagged.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Practice with the concepts of conservation of momentum and energy by analyzing a special case of the ballistic pendulum.

Practice questions understanding the ballistics of gene bombardment.

Experience a simulation of ballistic trajectories in relationship to Earth's orbit. Java 1.5 or more recent is required.

A scanned copy of the 1895 publication of The Story of Jack Ballister's Fortunes by Howard Pyle, a fiction book for children.

Students must predict the pre-collision speed of a ball that has been captured by a ballistic pendulum.

Find out about the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile program, a post-World War II, U.S. military defense system.

Read the text of treaties concerning Anti-Ballistic Missiles.

In this science fair project, use a paintball gun to compare the calculated vs. the actual range of a projectile. The Science Buddies project ideas are set up consistently beginning with an abstract, objective, and introduction, followed...

This ebook version of Howard Pyle's The Story Of Jack Ballister's Fortunes has been made available in multiple formats by the Open Library. Editions of the full novel, organized by year of publication, may be accessed here.

A transcript of National Security Decision Directive 85, issued by the Reagan administration in 1983, which formally declares the administration's intention to pursue the research and development of defensive systems-the Strategic...

Highlights some of the unbelievable characteristics associated with ICBM technology. Includes an informative and detailed factsheet as well as a concise description of the information.

Students will collect examples of various statistical instruments and form an electronic scrapbook. These materials will be gathered from electronic sources in addition to periodicals and other print resources.

In October 1962, the Soviet Union and the United States went eyeball-to-eyeball and were on the brink of nuclear war. Surveillance photographs taken by a U-2 spy plane over Cuba revealed that the Soviet Union was installing...

This site provides a detailed history of ENIAC, the world's first digital computer developed by Army Ordnance to compute World War II ballistic firing tables. Includes specifics on how the computer performed its calculations.

A page provided by the Brookings Institution which lists 50 "facts" about U.S. Nuclear Weapons. Good place to start for basic (and sometimes interesting) statistics. (Published April 28, 2014)

Learn about the life and accomplishments of Wernher Von Braun and other Nazi space scientists through this interactive timeline. Discover how he came to the United States in Operation Paperclip and why he is known as the father of the...

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.

In this interactive tutorial you will learn how firearms and tools are manufactured and used in such a way that subtle variations can exist. These subtle differences enable investigators to link weapons and tools to a particular crime...

Detailed entry for the Strategic Defense Initiative, better known by its byname, Star Wars. Covers history of the program, weapons research and development, and criticism of the program.