TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Floaters and Sinkers
This lesson introduces students to the important concept of density. The focus is on the more easily understood densities of solids, but students can also explore the densities of liquids and gases. Students devise methods to determine...
Chem Tutor
Chem Tutor: Single Replacement Reactions
Information and examples on single and double replacement reactions, also called single displacement, single substitution, or activity replacement and double displacement, or metathesis. Practice problems with answers are available.
CNN
Cnn: Life Inside a Fema Trailer
Captivating audio slide show that details a family's experience in a FEMA trailer after they were displaced from their home by Hurricane Katrina.
CNN
Cnn: Protesters, Workers Clash in 9th Ward
January, 2006, article that recounts a clash between residents of New Orleans' Ninth Ward and workers who were using bulldozers to clear debris in that ward. There was a class-action lawsuit against the city because houses were being...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: What Does It Mean to Be a Refugee?
About 60 million people around the globe have been forced to leave their homes to escape war, violence and persecution. The majority have become Internally Displaced Persons, meaning they fled their homes but are still in their own...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: A Syrian Refugee's Story
In this short film, Welcome to Canada, learn about a Syrian refugee's story, Mohammed Alsaleh, who fled violence and imprisonment by the Assad regime during Syria's Civil War. Mohammed was granted asylum and now lives in Canada where he...
Bozeman Science
Bozeman Science: Work and Energy
In the following video Paul Andersen explains how the mechanical energy added or removed from a system results from work. For work to occur a force must act parallel to the displacement of the system. Since work and energy are equivalent...
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Horizontal and Vertical Components of Velocity
Students learn how to describe the motion of projectiles numerically; specifically how the numerical values of the x and y components of the velocity and displacement change with time. Includes animations and interactive simulation.
Frostburg State University
General Chemistry Online: Chemical Change Faq
Investigate the answers to many commonly asked questions about chemical change. This comprehensive list will address chemical equations and double displacement reactions in addition to other topics.
CNN
Cnn: New Orleans Evacuations Under Way
The federal government begins to evacuate those displaced by Hurricane Katrina to other parts of the country, including Texas, as the conditions on the Gulf Coast continue to deteriorate after Hurricane Katrina. Report is from September,...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Single Replacement Reactions
Definition of single replacement (or single displacement) reactions. Predicting and determining the products using the reactivity series.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Global Oneness Project: A Refugee's Story (Lesson Plan)
Learners watch a 19-minute documentary that tells the story of Mohammed Alsaleh, a young Syrian refugee granted asylum in Canada in 2014, who is now counseling newly arrived refugees. In this lesson, students explore through classroom...
Other
National Science Digital Library: Smile: Aesop's Arithmetic
A cross-curricular lesson plan integrating Aesop's The Crow and the Pitcher with an experiment testing the outcome of the fable using volume and displacement concepts.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Kinematics Investigation
In this activity, students solve trigonometric equations and investigate kinematics. They calculate and graph the displacement, velocity, and acceleration of trigonometric functions.
Other
Easyphysics: Chapter 2 Velocity
Learners investigate velocity. Some topics examined are average velocity, distance, and displacement. The resource includes example problems with solutions, interactive graphs, and a chapter quiz.
Other
Institute of Physics: Practical Physics: Investigate Mass on Spring Oscillators
This experiment allows the period, displacement, velocity, and acceleration of a mass suspended on a spring to be investigated by data logging the output from a motion sensor. It is an example of simple harmonic motion.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Buoyant Boats
Students learn about displacement, density and buoyancy then apply their knowledge to build a floating object.
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Finding Speed From Work Graph
Students must determine the speed of a hockey puck based on a graph of force vs. displacement.
Walter Fendt
Walter Fendt: Buoyant Force in Liquids
An app that demonstrates the Law of Archimedes. This virtual experiment will show students that by changing the shape of the solid, the amount of liquid displaced will change.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Describing Motion With Words
This lesson from the Glenbrook South High School gives a nice review and detailed explanation of velocity, speed, distance, displacement, and acceleration. A good introduction to the "language of Kinematics."
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Corner Kick
Students must determine the 3 components of the initial velocity of a soccer ball on a corner kick. Students will see the displacement of the ball in all three dimensions as well as the time the ball is in the air. Students must also...
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: 1 D Kinematics: Scalars and Vectors
This illustrated tutorial focuses on several examples of vector and scalar quantities including distance, displacement, speed, velocity, and acceleration.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: 1 D Kinematics: Determining the Area on a v T Graph
In this interactive physics tutorial, students learn how a plot of velocity versus time can also be used to determine the displacement of an object.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: 1 D Kinematics: Kinematic Equations and Graphs
In this interactive physics tutorial, students investigate the relationships between two methods available to solve problems involving the numerical relationships between displacement, velocity, acceleration and time.
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