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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12 Exploration Series: Simulations: Physics: Archery

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Watch this animation as an archer shoots at a target on an angle, and its horizontal and vertical paths and its velocity are explained. An interactive follows where you can manipulate the archer's...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: How Fast Can You Shoot a Hockey Puck?

For Students 6th - 8th
In this project, you'll need: a puck, a hockey stick, a tape measure, at least one helper with a stopwatch and an empty rink. Have your friend start the watch just as you make contact with the puck, and stop it when the puck hits the...
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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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Middle School Science

Middle School Science: Balloon Powered Race Cars

For Students 9th - 10th
An idea developed by a physical science teacher who applied Newton's Laws of Motion in creating a balloon powered race car. Find simple objective, materials, rules, and procedures.
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Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Projectile Lab

For Students 9th - 10th
This lab is designed to have students find the relationships that affect the horizontal distance travelled by a projectile. Students will be able to modify the starting height, initial speed and angle at which the projectile is fired....
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Navigating by the Numbers

For Teachers 6th - 8th
For this lesson, middle schoolers will learn that math is important in navigation and engineering. Ancient land and sea navigators started with the most basic of navigation equations (Speed x Time = Distance). Today, navigational...
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Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Accelerating Electrons Lab

For Students 9th - 10th
This lab is designed to have students investigate the factors that affect the speed of an electron and the time it takes an electron to travel the distance between two charged plates.
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Mexico, 1872

For Students 9th - 10th
A map from 1872 of Mexico, showing states and state capitals, major cities, towns, and ports, railroads, lakes and rivers, mountain systems, terrain, and coastal features. Steamship routes to major ports are shown, with distances marked...
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Curated OER

Etc: Maps Etc: Physical, Political, and Economic Asia, 1872

For Students 9th - 10th
A map of Asia from 1872, showing physical features including mountain systems, deserts, lakes, rivers with direction of flow, coastal features, and ocean currents, political boundaries and foreign possessions at the time, and commercial...

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