Mar 22, 2019 | Explore, Force, Inertia, Lessons, Mass
Penny for Your Thoughts on Inertia AboutStudentsVocabularyTeachers Use pennies and index cards to explore inertia and the well-known magician's table cloth trick. Key Question How is a magician's tablecloth trick similar to a crash dummy falling off the tailgate of a...
Mar 22, 2019 | Uncategorized
Understanding Car Crashes: It’s Basic Physics (Full Video with Questions) StudentsTeachers Student Directions Watch the full video with questions at your own pace. To help you remember the concepts, fill in the blanks of the Concept Organizer as you watch the...
Mar 23, 2020 | Lessons, Momentum, Velocity
Momentum Bashing 1 AboutStudentsVocabularyTeachers Use inclined ruler ramps to explore how mass affects a marble's "bashing power." Key Questions What determines if one car has more momentum than another in a two-car collision? Does increasing an object's mass...
Mar 22, 2019 | Impulse, Lessons, Momentum
Egg Crash! Engineering a Crash Cushion AboutStudentsVocabularyTeachers Build a paper landing-pad for a dropped egg to explore how airbags reduce crash forces. Key Questions How do people survive major vehicle collisions? How do the laws and principles of physics...
Mar 22, 2019 | Energy, Lessons
Ball of Energy AboutStudentsVocabularyTeachers Throw a tennis ball into the air and collect data to determine impact speed. Key Questions What happens to all of the energy in a falling ball when it hits the ground? How is the maximum kinetic energy of a moving object...
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