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Force and Motion InteractiveForce and Motion Interactive
Publisher
Physics Classroom
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Grade
9th - 12th
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30 mins
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Force and Motion

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Scholars focus on associating balanced forces with at rest or constant velocity motion and unbalanced forces with acceleration or deceleration. Practice problems with immediate feedback allow for quick success in an installment of the series covering Newton's Laws of Motion.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

force, force diagrams, motion, newton's laws of motion

Additional Tags

science

Instructional Ideas

  • Assign as homework or a quick review

Classroom Considerations

  • Compatible with any device as the interactive adjusts to any screen size including smartphones
  • While the resource offers three levels, the third level is simply a combination of the first two and contains no unique problems

Pros

  • Questions answered incorrectly reappear later until they are mastered
  • Provides a Help Me feature on every question explaining how to approach solving

Cons

  • None

Common Core

RST.9-10.3 RST.11-12.3

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