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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12 Exploration Series: Simulations: Physics: Newton's Cannon

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Learn about orbits and how an object can stay in orbit under the influence of gravity. By adjusting launch velocities users will understand how to successfully put a virtual satellite into orbit without...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12 Exploration Series: Simulations: Physics: Archery

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Watch this animation as an archer shoots at a target on an angle, and its horizontal and vertical paths and its velocity are explained. An interactive follows where you can manipulate the archer's...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Circular Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In the following lesson students will be asked to analyze and describe accelerated motion in two dimensions using equations including circular examples.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Episd: Free Fall

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Use this opportunity to understand accelerated motion in two dimensions, free fall.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Objects in Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides flexible alternate or additional learning activities for students learning about the concepts of distance, speed, and acceleration.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating Speed and Velocity

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this investigation, young scholars will work in groups to design a model roller coaster, which will be used to clock the fastest speed for the rider (ball bearing/marble) The groups will build roller coaster models and modify and...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Android Acceleration Application

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This unit includes two sequential lessons. In the first, students create mobile apps that collect data from an Android device's accelerometer and then store that data to a database. This lesson provides practice with MIT's App Inventor...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Exploring Acceleration With an Android

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students conduct an experiment to study the acceleration of a mobile Android device. During the experiment, they run an application created with MIT's App Inventor that monitors linear acceleration in one-dimension. Students use an...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Concussions in Professional Athletes

For Students 9th - 10th
Read this passage and study the graphic to complete a five-question quiz that will test your knowledge on acceleration to reduce concussions in professional athletes.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: The World's Fastest Mammal

For Students 9th - 10th
Read this passage and study the graphics to complete a five-question quiz that will test your knowledge on acceleration.
Article
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies

Mocomi: Speed, Velocity and Acceleration

For Students 2nd - 8th
Discover the difference between speed, velocity, and acceleration. Provides formulas and other interesting facts.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Calculating Acceleration: Lesson 5

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson will explain that acceleration can be calculated by taking change in velocity divided by change in time. It is 5 of 5 in the series titled "Calculating Acceleration."
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Practice W/ Acceleration & Unknown Time: Lesson 1

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson provides the learner with example problems on calculating the acceleration of an object when time is unknown, but position and velocity are. It is 1 of 2 in the series titled "Practice w/ Acceleration & Unknown Time."
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Centripetal Force Activity

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this physics activity, students will simulate a race car on a circular track. Velocity, acceleration, and force vectors will be analyzed at various places along the track. As the students progress in the activity, prompts for student...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Egg Drop

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this physics lab, students build a container to safely deliver two eggs from the top of the school. Students calculate average velocity, acceleration, momentum, and the amount of force as it hits the ground. If their egg breaks, they...
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Open Curriculum

Open Curriculum: Vectors and Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn more about the properties of velocity, acceleration, and force vectors in this illustrated article.
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PBS

Pbs: A Classical and Relativistic Trip to a Black Hole

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This PBS site is a classroom activity that takes a trip to a black hole. Students apply calculations on distance, velocity, acceleration, time, circular motion, density, and more.
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Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Mathematics of Satellite Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
The mathematics associated with the motion of satellites is described. Equations (for period, velocity, acceleration and force) are stated, symbols described, and sample problems solved. Includes five practice problems with solutions and...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Motion in One Dimension

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This hands-on exercise allows students to view and calculate the various factors involved in one-dimensional motion. Students will use remote control vehicles to illustrate the linear motion. Students will use the information gathered...
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Math Graphs

Houghton Mifflin: Math Graphs: Position, Velocity, and Acceleration [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Students investigate the position, velocity, and acceleration graphs. The graphs are available in PDF format.
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Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Graphing Motion Problem Level 5

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out the acceleration of an object from a position vs. time graph by finding the instantaneous velocity at two different points.
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BBC

Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on motion including definitions, how to calculate the change in velocity and the average acceleration, and a link to an assessment.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Graphing 1 D Kinematic Motion

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this demonstration students are given a position, velocity, or acceleration graph showing the motion of an object. They describe the motion, and then make predictions by completing the remaining two graphs. Using a motion detector and...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Analyzing the Motion of a Marble Down a Ramp

For Students 9th - 10th
This lab activity involves rolling a marble down a ramp where the students can investigate constant acceleration motion. The students then make a position vs. time graph and a velocity vs. time graph in order to investigate the change in...

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