Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Momentum

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this online tutorial students will begin to calculate the momentum of a physical system.
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University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Bike Ride

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
On this one page website sharpen your logic and rate measurement skills while working on this challenge. The solution is available to double check your solution.
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University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Walk and Ride

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
On this one page website sharpen your logic and rate measurement skills while working on this challenge. The solution is available to double check your solution.
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University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: The Hare and the Tortoise

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
On this one page website sharpen your logic and rate measurement skills while working on this challenge. The solution is available to double check your solution.
Interactive
Visual Fractions

Visual Fractions: Platform Scale Subtraction

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Weigh five little creatures on a metric scale, and subtract to find the mass to the hundredths place for each. A timer calculates your speed of computation.
Interactive
Visual Fractions

Visual Fractions: Platform Scale Addition

For Students 3rd - 8th
Weigh five little creatures on a metric scale, and add to find their total mass to the hundredths place as each one joins the group. A timer calculates your speed of computation.
Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: How Simple Ideas Lead to Scientific Discoveries

For Students 9th - 10th
Educator, Adam Savage, shares two astounding examples of profound scientific discoveries that came from simple, creative procedures: Eratosthenes' calculation of the Earth's circumference and Hippolyte Fizeau's measurement of the speed...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Practice Calculating Instantaneous Velocity: Lesson 1

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson provides the learner with example problems on calculating the instantaneous speed and velocity of an object. It is 1 of 2 in the series titled "Practice Calculating Instantaneous Velocity."
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Wave Speed: Lesson 2

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson will show how to calculate wavelength and determine wave speed. It is 2 of 2 in the series titled "Wave Speed."
Website
Other

Online Conversion

For Students 9th - 10th
Conversion calculators galore! Convert just about anything from one measureable unit into another measureable unit here with over two dozen calculators. Each of the links is specific to a measureable quantity. Some examples include...
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Education Development Center

Tune in to Learning: Get Going With Rate

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Explore the concepts of rate, distance, and speed in this interactive lesson. Discover how to use formulas to solve word problems and calculate salaries. A concise lesson with excellent examples, connections to real world experiences,...
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BBC

Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Describing Motion Aqa

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on Distance-time graphs; the gradient of a distance-time graph represents the speed of an object.
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Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Motion on Incline Level 3

For Students 9th - 10th
Students must calculate the speed of a block when it returns to its original location on an incline using Newton's Laws. Mass, angle, gravitational field, coefficient of friction and initial speed will be generated randomly.
Interactive
Other

Machine Head Software: Speed Distance Time Calculators

For Students 3rd - 8th
A collection of calculators to find the average speed, time, or distance depending on the variables given.
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Calls of the Wild: Bats and Echolocation

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Explore bats' navigation systems by experimenting with echolocation. Approximate an object's distance by analyzing reflected sound waves, measuring the delay in sound and calculating the ratio to the speed of sound.
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BBC

Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on motion including definitions, how to calculate the change in velocity and the average acceleration, and a link to an assessment.
Activity
Ministry of Education and Universities of the Region of Murcia (Spain)

Ministerio De Educacion Y Ciencia: Tasa De Variacion De Una Funcion

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In Spanish. In this interactive activity you will learn and understand the concept of average and instantaneous speed and calculate the average and instantaneous variation of some functions.
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Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Soccer Shot Simple

For Students 9th - 10th
Students must calculate the maximum distance they can be from an soccer net and still hit a randomly generated target. The speed and angle of the kick will be generated randomly.
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs: A Classical and Relativistic Trip to a Black Hole

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This PBS site is a classroom activity that takes a trip to a black hole. Learners apply calculations on distance, velocity, acceleration, time, circular motion, density, and more.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Navigating at the Speed of Satellites

For Teachers 6th - 9th
For thousands of years, navigators have looked to the sky for direction. Today, celestial navigation has simply switched from using natural objects to human-created satellites. A constellation of satellites, called the Global Positioning...
Activity
University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Maths and Sports: Alternative Record Books

For Students 9th - 10th
Take a look at the amazing limits that athletes push themselves to in search of Olympic glory. Which events see the fastest speeds, furthest distances and highest forces? This activity challenges students to undertake some research,...
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OpenStax

Open Stax: College Physics: Flow Rate and Its Relation to Velocity

For Students 11th - 12th
In this section of the textbook learn how to define and calculate flow rate. Also learn the differences and similarities between flow rate and fluid velocity. Section also relates flow rate to processes in the body like calculating flow...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: How Fast Do Seismic Waves Travel?

For Students 6th - 8th
Here's a geology project that uses historical seismograph data that you can collect from the comfort of your own computer. You'll use a web interface to a network of seismometers run by the Northern California Earthquake Data Center, at...
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Supersonic Dream

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Examine how fuel use affects the mass of different planes during flight. This lesson plan teaches students how to determine the per person fuel cost of a transatlantic flight for seven airplanes, and display the results on a bar graph....