Cornell Cooperative Extension
Rope Making
Jump ropes, dock lines, cables. The science and technology behind rope making is the focus of a seven-page packet that ends with a rope making challenge.
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ROV Grid Search
Students perform activities to recreate the exploration of the sea bottom. They attach magnets to the bottom of the remote controlled car to see how many camouflaged objects it can pick up. As a class, students examine the results of...
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Bridge Building
Bridge the gaps in your knowledge of bridges. Individuals learn about bridge types by building models. The activity introduces beam bridges, arch bridges, truss bridges, and suspension bridges.
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Unit V: Worksheet 2 - Constant Force
Physics learners studying force and acceleration practice solving eight problems with this assignment. They calculate acceleration and deceleration, net force, and distances required for stopping a moving object. Kinematics equations and...
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The Physics of Bridges
Stability is key when building a bridge. Scholars explore the forces acting upon bridges through an analysis of Newton's Laws and Hooke's Law. The activity asks individuals to apply their learning by building a bridge of their own.
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Magnetic Discovery Bottle
Students examine how to conduct simple investigations and use simple equipment to gather data. In this magnet lesson students decide what types of objects are attracted to magnets.
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Combining Kinematics and Dynamics
In this kinematics and dynamics worksheet, learners solve 13 problems where they determine different forces acting upon moving objects. They determine the magnitude of the forces and they also determine how fast the objects are...
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Use of Common Metals
For this metals worksheet, students read about the different properties of aluminum, copper, and iron and determine why these metals are used they way they are used. This worksheet has 5 short answer questions.
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Rockets
Students work together in groups of 5 to build a model rocket from a rocket kit. For this rocket lesson, students launch the rocket when it is constructed. The students will use simple materials to build and launch their own model rocket.
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Water Rocket
Young scholars study the basic operation of a water rocket. In this propulsionlesson students complete several experiments on constructing a bottle rocket launcher.
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Investigating Motion
Young scholars determine velocity using the slope of a time distance graph. They investigate a motion cart using a CBR unit and a TI 83 calculator setup. Using the graph generated, they calculate velocity.