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Forces and Motion [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This resource provides reproducibles that aide in student learning of force and motion. Also offers hands-on and cooperative learning activity ideas as well as an ESL/ELD activity. This resource is in PDF form; requires Adobe Reader.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Introduction to Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
What do you think of when you hear the word motion? Are you moving right now? You may not think so, but you are. Remember, the Earth is moving around the Sun, and the Sun is moving around the Milky Way Galaxy. Everything in the universe...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating Motion With Marbles

For Teachers K - 1st
For this guided inquiry activity, students will use 2 marbles of different size and a box to investigate what makes the marbles move and what will cause the marbles to change speed and direction.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating Motion Graphing Speed

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this introduction to motion activity, students will get a personal understanding of speed and acceleration by experiencing it firsthand. Wheeled office chairs or other cart like devices are used to give one student a ride as a fellow...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Runaway Train: Investigating Speed With Photo Gates

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students conduct an experiment to determine the relationship between the speed of a wooden toy car at the bottom of an incline and the height at which it is released. They observe how the photogate-based speedometer instrument "clocks"...
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Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Motion on Incline Level 1

For Students 9th - 10th
Students must calculate the distance an object will move up an incline using Newton's Laws. Mass, angle, gravitational field and initial speed will be generated randomly.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Changes in Motion

For Students 6th - 9th
In this lesson, you will learn about position vs. time graphs and velocity vs. time graphs and how to use them to solve problems.
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Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Describing Motion With Words

For Students 9th - 10th
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."
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Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Motion on Incline Level 3

For Students 9th - 10th
Students must calculate the speed of a block when it returns to its original location on an incline using Newton's Laws. Mass, angle, gravitational field, coefficient of friction and initial speed will be generated randomly.
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Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Motion on Incline Level 2

For Students 9th - 10th
Students must calculate the distance an object will move up an incline using Newton's Laws. Mass, angle, gravitational field, coefficient of friction and initial speed will be generated randomly.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc:investigating Friction:investigate How the Force of Friction Opposes Motion

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this investigation, middle schoolers will learn that speed, velocity, and changes in velocity are the result of the action of forces on objects such as friction. They will be able to explain how the force of friction opposes motion by...
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Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Drone Delivery Challenge

For Students 9th - 10th
Land as many objects as close to the target as possible. More points will be earned if the height is high and the speed is fast.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12 Exploration Series: Simulations: Physics: Butterfly Stroke

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Learn about the relationship between velocity and position for a swimmer. Adjust the velocity of the legs, streamline, and arms to experiment with the slope of velocity in the simulation swimmer. Dig a...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12 Exploration Series: Simulations: Physics: Model Rocket

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Learn about the relationship between position and velocity for a model rocket during launch and in free-fall. Experiment with rocket mass, rocket thrust, and rocket burn time to understand the...
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Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Vertical Motion of Firework Level 4

For Students 9th - 10th
Students will set the launch speed and fuse time for a firework so that the firework will explode at the desired height and speed. This problem does not take place on Earth.
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Middle School Science

Middle School Science: Motion Notes

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Personal site in which a teacher outlines a unit on motion. Probes through topics such as average speed, velocity, acceleration, speed, deceleration, force and more.
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Westerville District: Measuring Motion

For Students 6th - 8th
Learn about motion and how it is defined by a reference point.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Episd: Position Time Graphs

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Understand how to evaluate data presented in graphs based on speed and velocity calculations.
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Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Circular and Satellite Motion:circular Motion Mathematics

For Students 9th - 10th
Using the values of speed, acceleration, and force, students explore and analyze the motion of objects in circles.
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Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Circular & Satellite Motion: Uniform Circular Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
Manipulate variables while exploring principles and relationships related to moving in a circle at a constant speed. Students change the radius of the circle, the speed of the object, and the mass of the object and investigate the effect...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Position Time Graphs

For Students 6th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How motion and speed can be represented by a distance-time graph and how average speed can be calculated from it.
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Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Newtons Laws: Rocket Sledder Interactive

For Students 9th - 10th
Experience the effect of friction, air resistance, and applied force upon a sledder. The speed, acceleration, and force values are displayed as the sled moves. Learners can vary the mass of the sledder and the size of the parachute...
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Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Corner Kick

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Circular, Satellite, Rotational: Uniform Circular Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
Uniform circular motion can be described as the motion of an object in a circle at a constant speed. This animation depicts this by means of a vector arrow.