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States of Matter: Which Will Propel the Balloon?
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Professional DevelopmentThis activity models the states of matter and students investigate those states with a balloon/straw rocket.Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Slow the Ball
Grades: TK/K to 9Subjects: Professional DevelopmentStudent small group physics challenge. Engaging and challenging.Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Investigating the Inclined Plane through Inquiry
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Professional DevelopmentThis guided inquiry activity is designed to help students understand the effectiveness of inclined planes to reduce the amount o...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Investigating Motion: Paths of a marble
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Professional DevelopmentThis inquiry based activity will help students discover that marbles move in a variety of ways and the path in which it starts t...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Why Does It Go So Fast? Investigating what makes rockets go up in space
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Professional DevelopmentThis activity is an inquiry based activity where students investigate how the force that causes rockets to go into space is simi...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0The physics and engineering of a trebuchet
Grades: 6 to 9Subjects: Mathematics, Professional DevelopmentThis activity is a hands on investigation in which students will construct, and launch a trebuchet.Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0The First Law of Motion: The Tower of Coins
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Professional DevelopmentThis activity will provide the students with an opportunity to use inquiry. This activity will also help them to begin to unders...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Hot Wheelin' with Speed, Acceleration, and Data Graphs
Grades: TK/K to 9Subjects: Professional DevelopmentThis activity is a lab investigation where students observe, record, and gather data on the speed, acceleration, constant speed,...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Measuring the Speed of Go-Carts
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Professional DevelopmentStudents will create go-carts and calculate the speed, then change a variable and record the differences in speed.Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Newton's Second: Having A Ball With Motion
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Professional DevelopmentThis activity is a field investigation where students design and test a gravity ball launcher, record their observations, and sh...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Investigating Movement of Tops
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Professional DevelopmentThis is a guided inquiry lesson using tops to teach the students how to raise questions and seek answers by making careful obser...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Motion - Investigating Motion Graphs
Grades: 6 to 9Subjects: Professional DevelopmentIn this activity students analyze the motion of a student walking across the room and predict, sketch, and test distance vs. tim...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Water Bottle Rockets- Understanding Energy
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Physics, Professional DevelopmentThis lab activity is an exploration of Newton's Three Laws, forces and energy. Students will design, build, launch and analyze r...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0