Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Spinning Cylinder
Explore the motion of a cylinder that spins around its axis at the same time as it rotates around a line that is perpendicular to this axis.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Bill Nye Demonstration: Spinning Platform
Watch and learn as Bill Nye the Science Guy demonstrates how to spin really fast. [1:32]
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Flux in Spinning Coil With Graphs Lab
This lab was designed to have students look at the graphs for flux vs. time and electromotive force vs. time for a coil spinning in a magnetic field. Students will be able to vary the size of the coil, the rate at which the coil spins...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: What if the Earth Stopped Spinning?
Michael Stevens of Vsauce looks at what would happen if the Earth stopped spinning. He also explores how we construct time as a function of the Earth's rotation and why atomic clocks are so precise. [9:44]
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Spin Me Along
Students explore probability and patterns in fractions, decimals, and percents by spinning three spinners and recording and analyzing the results.
Math Is Fun
Math Is Fun: Spinning Square Pyramid
Students learn about the properties of a square-based pyramid and the formulas for surface area and volume. The learning resource consists of facts and an interactive spinning square pyramid. Includes several multiple-choice questions.
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Force Normal on Spinning Space Station
Students must calculate the number of rotations per hour required to create a certain force normal on a spinning space station.
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Flux in Spinning Coil Lab
This lab was designed to have students map out the flux as function of time for a coil spinning in a magnetic field. From their date they also calculate the electromotive force for each data point they collect. Finally, they graph the...
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Force Normal on Spinning Space Station Lab
In this lab students are going to be investigating how the parameters of a a spinning space station determine the apparent gravitational field for the people in the station. Students can change the mass of the person, the speed of the...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Spin Me a Story
In a spin-off to studying about angular momentum, students use basic methods of comparative mythology to consider why spinning and weaving are common motifs in creation myths and folktales. Note: The literacy activities for the Mechanics...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Twirls, Whirls, Spins, & Turns: Reflexes & Dizziness
Tilt-A-Whirls, Merry-Go-Rounds, Spinning Tea Cups. Just the thought of these rides is enough to make someone dizzy, or queasy. Learn about spins, turns, and the mixed signals that fire in our brains when the sensation of dizziness takes...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Spinning Your Wheels: Pinwheel Sensitivity
So you've just heard the "Happy Birthday" song and now it's time to blow out the candles. If you are sitting far away from the candles, you know you'll have to blow harder to get them all out than if you were sitting closer. In this...
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Physics 2000: Elements as Atoms: Spin
A basic explanation of spin and how it relates to electrons and quantum numbers.
Simon Fraser University
Chem1 Virtual Textbook: Electron Spin and the Exclusion Principle
Acting as a subtopic of the General Chemistry Virtual Textbook's section on Atoms and the Periodic Table, this site discusses electron spin with related topics, such as the Pauli exclusion principle, quantum numbers, and more.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Spin a Spiral Galaxy
This interactive activity from NOVA Online lets you spin a spiral galaxy, including our own Milky Way. It demonstrates that what you can learn from visible light observations of a galaxy is largely determined by the angle from which you...
Optical Society
Optical Society of America: Optics for Kids: Spinning Your (Color) Wheels
Instructions on how to make a color wheel that spins to produce white. With links to scientific, academic articles that explain what is happening.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Got Energy? Spinning a Food Web
Students learn about energy flow in food webs, including the roles of the sun, producers, consumers and decomposers in the energy cycle. They model a food web and create diagrams of food webs using their own drawings and/or images from...
Other
Spinning the Web: The Story of the Cotton Industry
A complete look at the history of the cotton industry in England. Navigate the site by clicking on topics at the top of the page. You can also find a list of museums on the left side of the page. Clicking on the museum will take you to...
Open Door Team
Open Door Web Site: The "Spinning Jenny"
This site includes background information on how James Hargreaves got his inspiration for his invention of the "Spinning Jenny." Also discusses the machine's usefulness and controversy.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: News in Science: Galaxy Spinning the Wrong Way
From ABC News in Science, this February 2002 article revolves around findings posted by images from the Hubble Space Telescope which suggest a spiral galaxy spinning in an opposite direction than expected.
Other
American Institute of Physics: Where Does the Neutron Get Its Spin?
Describes two experiments on neutron spin. This is how physicists work.
Read Works
Read Works: Passages: "Spinning Storms"
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about tornados written on the 2nd grade reading level. The text is followed by ten comprehension questions in multiple choice or extended response format. A link to answers is...
K-5 Math Teaching Resources
K 5 Math Teaching Resources: Division Spin [Pdf]
A board game for practicing division facts.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Spinning Blackboard
Explore the effects of drawing in a straight line within a rotating frame of reference. This activity requires a turntable. If this is unavailable, a cake turntable with a glued-on center post might work as well.
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