Physics Central
Physics Central: Physics in the Tool Shed: Toolaballoonaphone
Learn about compression waves and amplification through constructing a toolaballoonaphone! The toolaballoonaphone is made out an exercise ball, fish nets, wrenches, strings, scissors, and a clean waste basket that allows students to...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Magnets and Springs
[Free Registration/Login Required] This unit gives children experience of forces including attraction and repulsion between magnets, compression and stretching of springs, and stretching of elastic bands. They learn that these forces...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: How Can Computers Reduce File Size?
Reducing the file size using Lossless and Lossy for file compression.
University of Minnesota
University of Minnesota: Applications of Waves in Your Everyday Life
This site offers a variety of everyday activities and everyday experiences in which waves or sound waves play a role.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Boyle's Law
This is a modern version of a classic experiment by Robert Boyle on the compressibility of gases. Boyle discovered the relationship between pressure and volume of gases that now bears his name. This project shows you a simple method for...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: How Does Ratio of Sand to Cement Affect Strength of Concrete?
Concrete is one of those things that most of us don't think about much, yet we use it every day. We walk on concrete sidewalks, drive on concrete roads, and live and work in buildings with foundations made of concrete. It is a durable...
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: University of Colorado: States of Matter: Basics
An interactive simulation will heat, cool and compress atoms and molecules. Watch as they change between solid, liquid and gas phases. Recognize that different substances have different properties which will affect the temperatures for...
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Hooke's Law
An interactive simulation that teaches about force and potential energy by changing variables to stretch and compress springs. This simulation can either be downloaded or played online and includes handouts, lesson plans, and additional...
OpenStax
Open Stax: Potential Energy and Conservative Forces
In the following interactive students will define conservative force, potential energy, and mechanical energy. They will explain the potential energy of a spring in terms of its compression when Hooke's Law applies. Students will also...
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Hooke's Law
Stretch and compress springs to explore the relationships between force, spring constant, displacement, and potential energy. Investigate what happens when two springs are connected in series and parallel.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: A Biography of America
Learn about the full sweep of U.S. history at this comprehensive site based on a PBS series and telecourse. The series compresses several centuries of events, issues, and people in U.S. history into twenty-six half-hour programs. A team...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Solids, Liquids, and Gases
Given descriptions, scenarios, or illustrations, students will distinguish between the compressibility, structure, shape, and volume of solids, liquids, and gases.
Chemistry Collective
Chem Collective: Engine Simulation
This simulation allows students to interact with different components of a complex real world phenomenon. The simulation shown is of a 4-stroke internal combustion engine. The thermodynamic cycle being simulated is the Otto cycle, which...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Bridges
Through a five-lesson series that includes numerous hands-on activities, students are introduced to the importance and pervasiveness of bridges for connecting people to resources, places and other people, with references to many...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Ap Physics: Conservative Forces and Potential Energy
By the end of this section, you will be able to define conservative force, potential energy, and mechanical energy; explain the potential energy of a spring in terms of its compression when Hooke's law applies; and use the work-energy...
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Astronomical Society of the Pacific: Cosmic Calendar [Pdf]
An activity where students create a timeline of the history of the Universe, beginning with the Big Bang almost 14 billion years ago, but compress it into one year. Younger students must be able to order events, while older students need...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Gas Properties
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The following online tutorial describes how a gas can be compressed and identifies three factors that affect gas pressure. Students will describe the effects...
Music Education
Learning to Read Music: Symbols in Music
This introductory tutorial teaches students basic musical notation for compressed rests and sharps and flats. Further lessons are linked to this page.
PBS
Pbs News Hour Extra: Choosing an Automobile, Understanding Alternative Fuels
This lesson plan encourages students to look at alternative methods of fuel and explore the various impacts each has on the environment.
Canada Science and Technology Museum
Canada Science and Technology Museum: Background Information for Sound
Sound! How does it work? All you need to know about it is found here through a series of Q&As. Educators will find useful lesson plans.
Library of Congress
Loc: About George Westinghouse
This is a detailed biography about George Westinghouse with a link to an article about Westinghouse from the Wilmerding News, 1904. Read about his many inventions that improved railroad safety.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Forced to Fracture
Young scholars learn how forces affect the human skeletal system through fractures, and why certain bones are more likely to break than others depending on their design and use in the body. They learn how engineers and doctors...
Chem4kids
Chem4 Kids: Liquids
This overview of liquids explores what a liquid is and how matter becomes changes into a liquid.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Faultline: P and S Waves
The different types of earthquake waves are discussed and illustrated. Features geologist video clip.
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