Students will calculate the time it takes for Arctic terns at a given average migration speed.
This very interactive video lesson uses the Simple Pendulum experiment to enable students to answer the fundamental question: What is the value of g in my school and in my home? Students will learn to calculate this value by working in groups to make pendulums of different lengths and by learning to count pendulum oscillations.
In this lesson, students will learn that many of the chemical reactions that are part of their lives can be classified as one of five basic reactions.
In this lesson, students demonstrate the effect of hull shape on speed by towing wood blocks of a variety of shapes through water. As an extension, they can participate in a design contest where student groups must create and shape their own wood-block hulls and then test them under controlled conditions.
In this lesson students will learn about the motion of the pendulum and how it proves the earth is rotating. There is a teacher's answer key to go along with the student activity sheet.
In this lesson, students will experience forces, do work and learn how work is different from force. They will also measure the amount of power a student can develop.
This resource would probably be most helpful to use during literacy centers or independent work time. Students can listen to the 'playlist' of books on an iPad and then respond to questions about one of the stories.
Students are tasked with moving a 20 gram (or other low denomination) weight a distance of one meter using a “Sphero*” remote controlled robot. Students use available materials to design and build a structure that will allow the sphero to push or pull the weight, while allowing for factors such as friction, direction, and gravity. *Note: Although students can issue specific commands in the Sphero software, this activity only requires that they be able to “drive” the Sphero, thus providing the force to move the weight.
Students learn about lift, weight, thrust, and drag in relation to flight. This page would be a great introduction to a lesson or a great closing of a lesson.
Students will learn about the four forces which include weight, lift, thrust, and drag. These four forces affect things that fly.
Students will learn what falling down an elevator shaft and orbiting Earth have in common. A variety of activities including Watch Your Weight, Falling Fluids, and Spring Things.
Students will demonstrate a greater understanding of friction by cooperatively experiencing and describing a range of phenomena involving friction. Students will understand the term "static friction" and the ratio of friction and weight as it relates to moving an object at rest.
In this lesson, students will use different surfaces to test which will cause less friction on a ball. This will let the students determine how friction affects the distance an object in motion will go. This leson will include cooperative grouping for the activity and whole group discussion of the results.
Students will model carbon dating and how it can be used to determine the age of fossils and other materials. They will use a simple graph to extrapolate data to its starting point.
In this tutorial students will learn how a generator produces an electric current from the interaction of magnetic and electric field lines. Students will also investigate applications of magnetism and its relationship to the movement of electrical charge as it relates to electromagnets, simple motors, and permanent magnets.
Students use a simulation to model half-life.
Students will identify, classify, and observe common household substances as an acid, base or neither.
In this lesson, students interactively create predictions of position, velocity and acceleration graphs on the web using java applets. The applets automatically classify student answers, so instructors can create graphs of student predictions. Students also write text explaining why they think the graphs will have the shape they do.
This Nearpod lesson is focused on time-distance graphing, where students are comparing the graph to written scenarios.
Students are introduced to different ways of displaying visual spectra, including colored "barcode" spectra, like those produced by a diffraction grating, and line plots displaying intensity versus color, or wavelength. Students learn that a diffraction grating acts like a prism, bending lights into its component colors.