Teachers TryScience
Teachers Try Science: Eggs at Rest Stay at Rest
Students demonstrate the properties of inertia with some common kitchen materials.
University of Wisconsin
The Why Files: Friction and Fly Balls
Try to find the sweet spot for hitting a baseball so that it travels the greatest horizontal distance.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: What Is a Centripetal Force?
Learn what centripetal forces are and how to calculate them. Included are two problems with the solutions provided.
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: Lab Work Forces & Acceleration
The Illinois Institute of Technology provides this site. The site contains a graphing activity which illustrates that a constant force exerted upon an object results in constant acceleration. Rolling carts and stopwatches are used to...
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: Colliding Spheres
This lab activity from the Illinois Institute of Technology lets students investigate the impact of collisions upon the velocity and momentum of the colliding objects. Requires understanding of vectors.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science for Middle School
This digital textbook covers core physical science concepts and includes interactive features, real world examples, and videos.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Water Bottle Rockets Understanding Energy
For this activity, students will design and construct a water bottle rocket. Students will demonstrate understanding of a good experimental design and analysis of results.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Vectors: Double Trouble in 2 Dimensions
In this interactive tutorial, analyze two-body problems in which the objects are moving in different directions.
Concord Consortium
The Concord Consortium: Molecular Workbench: Conservation of Momentum
View a simulation that shows the reaction to a cart on wheels carrying a swinging pendulum.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Introduction to a System: Lesson 2
This lesson introduces the concept a systems and explains why it is important to properly define a system. It is 2 of 2 in the series titled "Introduction to a System."
Cosmo Learning
Cosmo Learning: Momentum & Collisions
Review momentum and collisions with this collection of video lectures from East Los Angeles College. Lectures vary in length and explain the concepts with examples.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Mass & Acceleration: Lesson 1
This lesson explains why mass and acceleration are inversely proportional. It is 1 of 2 in the series titled "Mass & Acceleration."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Representing Forces on an Inclined Plane: Lesson 2
This lesson demonstrates how to draw free-body diagrams for objects at rest or sliding on an inclined plane. It is 2 of 2 in the series titled "Representing Forces on an Inclined Plane."
Science4Fun
Science4 Fun: Force
What is force? Illustrated discussion of how force is calculated and three familiar types.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Interaction Between Objects: Lesson 1
This lesson introduces the concept of action and reaction forces and explains how they can be observed. It is 1 of 2 in the series titled "Interaction Between Objects."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Introduction to a System: Lesson 1
This lesson introduces the concept a systems and explains why it is important to properly define a system. It is 1 of 2 in the series titled "Introduction to a System."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Free Body Diagram: Lesson 2
This lesson introduces the concept of the free-body diagram. It is 2 of 2 in the series titled "Free-Body Diagram."
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Solar System!
An introduction to our solar system: the planets, our Sun and our Moon. Students begin by learning the history and engineering of space travel. They make simple rockets to acquire a basic understanding Newton's third law of motion. They...
Curated OER
Match Stick Rocket
In this online lesson plan students can experience Newton's Laws of Motion in relation to rockets with this experiment.
Curated OER
Match Stick Rocket
In this online lesson plan students can experience Newton's Laws of Motion in relation to rockets with this experiment.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Balancing Ball: Suspend a Ball in a Stream of Air
In this lesson plan students learn about air flow using a suspended ball in an air stream.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: If Superpowers Were Real: Flight
Is it scientifically possible to fly? In this series, creator Joy Lin tackles six superpowers and reveals just how scientifically realistic they can be to us mere mortals. [5:11]
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Physics 1: Rotational Dynamics
Students learn about the Newtonian mechanics principle of conservation of angular momentum and the application in the quantum mechanical world.
Tom Richey
Tom Richey: The Counter Reformation
Tom Richey offers a thorough slideshow incorporatin Sir Isaac Newton's Third Law of Motion while reviewing the historic details of the Counter-Reformation. Find out who disagreed with the Reformation movement.
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