Variation on the standard Atwood's Machine model, where one hanging mass swings like a pendulum and the other remains stationary. Manipulate the conditions and observe the results.

Students learn the basic properties of periodic and harmonic motion, and how the rearrangement of the simple pendulum equation can be used to solve for gravitational acceleration, pendulum length, and gravity. At lesson end, students are...

This site contains links, history of, types of, music of, and books about swing dancing.

This primary source set uses illustrations, documents, and photographs to tell the story of the history of swing dance.

This site reviews the history of swing dancing by decade, starting with the Roaring '20's through today.

In this activity, students will construct a pendulum and create a motion plot for a swinging pendulum. They will also identify characteristics that affect a pendulum's motion.

Sinusoidal data already obtained by swinging a can over a meter stick and measuring time and displacement from its resting position using a CBR or CBL with a motion detector. Using the TI-Navigator, you can monitor their "real time"...

In this activity, Students can use a motion detector to record the position and velocity of a swinging pendulum. They will plot the data as a velocity versus position phase plot and determine an ellipse that fits it.

Students must predict how far Robin Hood will move horizontally as he first swings like a pendulum and then sails like a projectile into a lake below. This video explains the problem: https://youtu.be/4ZEmvPEJTW4

Students use an interactive map to compare environmental conditions in different estuaries around the National Estuarine Research Reserve System. A second activity allows students to use the Graphing Tool to find, select, and graph data...

Students experientially learn about the characteristics of a simple physics phenomenon - the pendulum - by riding on playground swings. They use pendulum terms and a timer to experiment with swing variables. They extend their knowledge...

Students examine the motion of pendulums and come to understand that the longer the string of the pendulum, the fewer the number of swings in a given time interval. They see that changing the weight on the pendulum does not have an...

Through block notation, this page attempts to bring into focus the concept of swing patterns. The swing patterns are accompanied by various midi files.

This site provides dance information based on swing dancing. Links to the dance company's schedule, directions, FAQs, lessons, and dance articles are available.

Find out how to transform a common-style backyard area to include plants that will invite wildlife like songbirds, butterflies, and hummingbirds.

This activity demonstrates how potential energy (PE) can be converted to kinetic energy (KE) and back again. Given a pendulum height, students calculate and predict how fast the pendulum will swing by understanding conservation of energy...

This activity shows students the engineering importance of understanding the laws of mechanical energy. More specifically, it demonstrates how potential energy can be converted to kinetic energy and back again. Given a pendulum height,...

Read comprehensive biographical information about Benny Goodman, including achievements, discography, and facts about his life and career as a jazz musician.

This printable -ing worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will label pictures that contain -ing in them. An answer key and lesson extension are included.

Access an article in the "New York Times" from June 14, 1986, announcing the death of jazz musician, Benny Goodman.

Students model the data from the motion of a pendulum by a periodic function. They relate its parameters to the time for one period, the distance it is pulled back, and its distance from the motion detector.

This activity serves as a follow-up to Activity 10 in the Explorations book, Math and Science in Motion: Activities for Middle School by Chris Brueningsen, Elisa Brueningsen, and Bill Bower (Texas Instruments Incorporated, 1997).

This activity serves as a follow-up to Activity 14 in the Explorations book, Modeling Motion: High School Math Activities with the CBR.

Here is an excellent website explaining the history of the waltz. Here you can find the other names that Italians, French, Germans, and Austrians call the waltz as well as lots more related information. At the bottom of the page you can...