Activity
Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Charge and Carry

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from The Exploratorium Museum is a full description of a short activity. An electrophorus plate and a Leyden jar are made. The electrophorus is charged by induction. Its charge is transferred to the Leyden jar by conduction...
Interactive
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Spring and Mass Model

For Students 9th - 10th
An interactive tool where students can explore how a spring behaves, and how changing the elasticity, mass, push/pull force, and friction affect its motion or period. As the spring moves, its motion is shown on a distance-time graph.
eBook
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Momentum and Collisions: The Cart and the Brick Part A

For Students 9th - 10th
An animation that portrays the collision between a 3.0-kg loaded cart and a 2-kg dropped brick. It will be assumed that there are no net external forces acting upon the two objects involved in the collision. The only net force acting...
eBook
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Momentum and Collisions: The Cart and the Brick Part B

For Students 9th - 10th
The animation portrays the collision between a 1.0-kg cart and a 2-kg dropped brick. It will be assumed that there are no net external forces acting upon the two objects involved in the collision. The only net force acting upon the two...
Handout
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: What Are Inclines?

For Students 9th - 10th
A webpage with equations and examples of how to solve inclined planes problems. Learn how to deal with slopes when surfaces usually aren't perfectly horizontal.
Lesson Plan
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Lesson Summary: Unemployment

For Students 9th - 10th
For this lesson summary review and remind yourself of the key terms and calculations used in measuring unemployment, the labor force, the unemployment rate, the labor force participation rate, and the natural rate of unemployment. Topics...
Website
Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology

Iris: Earthquake Machine: Basic One Block & Simple Graph Animated

For Students 9th - 10th
Animation of the single-block "Earthquake Machine" model shows how "Forces, Faults, and Friction" interact. [0:16]
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Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Car on a Turn Problem

For Students 9th - 10th
Students must determine the force of friction on a car on a turn and the maximum speed the car could navigate a turn.
Activity
PBS

Pbs Teachers: Tower of Coins Experiment

For Students 1st - 5th
Demonstrate inertia by pushing a nickel out of the bottom of a stack without disturbing the rest of the stack.
Lesson Plan
TryEngineering

Try Engineering: Engineered Sports

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students work in teams to investigate how aerospace engineering relates to sports, especially golf ball design and the physics of bounce. They use this information to determine whether these aerospace principles can be applied to...
Unit Plan
BBC

Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: What Is Electric Charge? Ocr 21 C

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on electric charges. Electric current is the flow of electric charge. Some insulating materials become electrically charged when they are rubbed together. A substance that gains electrons becomes negatively charged,...

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