Khan Academy
Khan Academy: What Is Newton's First Law?
Newton's First Law also called the law of inertia is the most important thing to realize about motion. This article offers more information on motion and explains solved problems involving Newton's First Law. Also included is a video...
Other
Center for Education Partnerships: The Marble Roll
In this Science-athon, students try to make their marble roll the farthest across a flat surface, using their knowledge of forces, motion, and energy to guide them through their apparatus design. Teachers must enroll online.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Egg Drop
In this physics lab, students build a container to safely deliver two eggs from the top of the school. Students calculate average velocity, acceleration, momentum, and the amount of force as it hits the ground. If their egg breaks, they...
BBC
Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: The Life Cycle of a Star
This lesson focuses on the formation and life cycle of stars. Stars form when enough dust and gas clump together because of gravitational forces. Nuclear reactions release energy to keep the star hot. Some stars grow larger over time....
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Newton's Second: Having a Ball With Motion
Students will create a gravity ball launcher to demonstrate their understanding of mass, force, momentum, and motion. The students will use critical thinking, measurement, and observation and analysis of data to make changes and improve...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Testing New Suture Material
This passage will test your knowledge on the force of tension when testing a new suture material using this five-question quiz.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: The Claw
Students learn about gear ratios and power by operating toy mechanical cranes of differing gear ratios. They attempt to pick up objects with various masses to witness how much power must be applied to the system to oppose the force of...
Curated OER
Zona Land: Mechanics and Vectors
An exceptional tutorial on the topic of vectors that offers many helpful graphics, some of which are interactive.
NASA
Nasa: Newton's Theory of "Universal Gravitation"
This site, which is provided for by NASA, discusses the thinking which led Newton to understand universal gravitation.
NASA
Nasa: Vectors
This site from NASA provides an excellent tutorial on vectors and their use in physics to describe the motion of objects. Vector addition and resolution are illustrated.
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: Measuring the Gravitational Constant, G
A demonstration/lab idea for determining the numerical value of the universal gravitation constant using a torsion balance.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation
States the equation of Newton's law of universal gravitation. States the value of G and uses the equation to solve problems.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Circular and Satellite Motion: Energy in Satellites
Through interactive practice problems and illustrated examples, students explore energy relationships for satellites.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Balancing Balls on Air
Investigate how the force of moving air from a blow dryer interacts with the force of gravity to keep a ping-pong ball perfectly balanced in midair.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Why Doesn't the Moon Fall Down?
In this animated video segment adapted from NASA, astronomer Doris Daou explains how the forces of speed and gravity keep the moon in a constant orbit around Earth. [1:36]
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Tightening the Turns in Speed Skating
Fast turns around the track can become your laboratory tests in these experiments, whether you skate on ice, wood, or pavement. The goal is to determine which type of turns are best in a race - tight, medium, or wide - and then to figure...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Ap Physics: Gravitational Potential Energy
By the end of this section, you will be able to explain gravitational potential energy in terms of work done against gravity, show that the gravitational potential energy of an object of mass m at height h on Earth is given by PEg = mgh,...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Natural Disasters
Students are introduced to our planet's structure and its dynamic system of natural forces through an examination of the natural hazards of earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides, tsunamis, floods and tornados, as well as avalanches, fires,...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Water and Dams in Today's World
Young scholars learn about the importance of dams by watching a video that presents historical and current information on dams, as well as descriptions of global water resources and the hydrologic cycle. Students also learn about...
Bill Nye
Bill Nye: Penny Droplets
Try this at-home science experiment to learn about the forces of gravity, cohesion, and adhesion.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Falling Objects
Students will determine if objects fall at the same speed by testing a variety of objects as they let them fall from above. They will learn that gravity is the force that is pulling on the object. Included in this lesson is a video about...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Mr. And Miss Big Feet
Gravity is affected by the magnitude or size of the gravitational force between two objects and the masses and distance between them.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Trb 3:4 Investigation 2 Jump
Third graders will learn that gravity has more of a pulling force with heavy objects than light objects.
Children's Museum
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis: Curious Scientific Investigators: Flight Adventures
Students will make paper rockets, parachutes, and foam gliders to experience how objects move through the air. Explore topics such as thrust, weight, gravity, force, and lift through fun activities and stories and cutting-edge work done...
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