TryEngineering
Try Engineering: Engineered Sports
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...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Building Roller Coasters
In this hands-on activity students learn about the laws of physics by creating a marble roller coaster.
Read Works
Read Works: The Science of Fun!
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the science behind circus acts. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Newton's Laws: Finding Individual Forces
Through illustrated examples and interactive practice problems, students find the value of forces acting upon objects using force equations.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The Ruff Ruffman Show: Bottle Cap Hockey
Explore sports science and see how many points can you score with your bottle caps in Ruff's take on table hockey.
University of Maryland
University of Marylad: Computer Tutorials in Physics: Air Resistance
This site has a discussion of a college physics project in which the motion of an object under the influence of air resistance was modeled and studied. Procedure and modeling software are described and the results and the findings are...
University of Oregon
Uo: Cannon Simulator: Experimental Instructions
This virtual experiment is designed to let the student measure the relation between muzzle velocity (which determines projectile energy), gravitational potential and the effects of frictional drag caused by wind speed blowing opposite to...
University of Oregon
University of Oregon: Experimental Instructions
Visit this summary of friction. Use the interactive JAVA window to run friction simulations.
McREL International
Mc Rel: Whelmer #9 Learning Activity: Nickel Karate
An easy to do activity that investigates the basic theories of inertia. The activity is in lesson plan format that meets NSES standards.
Cosmo Learning
Cosmo Learning: Mechanics of Solids
A collection of video lectures from a course introducing students to the mechanics of solids. Webpage includes forty-one lectures from a professor at the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning. Lectures vary in length and...
Concord Consortium
The Concord Consortium: Molecular Workbench: Weight Balance on a Pulley
Watch how the placement of two weights attached to a chain on different sides of a pulley affect the movement of the system. You can adjust the heaviness of the weights.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Open Course Ware: Courses: Physics: Classical Mechanics
College-level online course highlighting the study of classical mechanics. This course focuses on Newtonian mechanics, fluid mechanics, and kinetic gas theory. Course features include a 35 video lecture series by Walter Lewin. Also link...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Parachutes and Air Resistance
By using different materials students construct a parachute to show how air resistance slows down its fall in this lesson.
City College of New York
City Technology: Introduction to Enerjeeps
A unit providing opportunity for students to explore circuits and switches through homemade battery powered cars.
Concord Consortium
The Concord Consortium: Molecular Workbench: Crawler
Adjust variables to experiment with a worm like structure to see how the changes affect its movement.
Project Britain
Primary Homework Help: Forces Quiz
First, read some fast facts about forces, then take a ten-question, multiple-choice quiz. Check to see if your answers are correct after each question.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Physical Science: Gravity Gets You Down
In this instructional activity, students make predictions about falling objects of different sizes and masses to learn about gravity and air resistance. Includes audio vocabulary list and extension activities.
Curated OER
Image of Inclined Plane
An interactive Java applet from the University of Utah that allows users to investigate the effect of the coefficient of friction on the motion of a block sliding down an incline. Initial height of the block and the friction coefficient...
Curated OER
Position of Block
An interactive Java applet from the University of Utah that allows users to investigate the effect of the coefficient of friction on the motion of a block sliding down an incline. Initial height of the block and the friction coefficient...
Science4Fun
Science4 Fun: Force
What is force? Illustrated discussion of how force is calculated and three familiar types.
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