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Best Practices
Forces and Changes in Motion
Big Ideas
Anti-conservation of angular momentum demonstration, utilizes a bicylce wheel
Ball drop activity involving golf ball and balcony
Balloon&Kite Extravaganza contest involves a project proposal, construction, and a finished product
Construct a balloon powered rocket car and demonstrate Newton's laws of motion
Demonstrate Bernoulli's principle with a paper and a ruler
Description of an activity for AP physics class, examining and riding theme park rides
Design challenge to create an air foil wing which will attain the most lift
Force and acceleration demonstration with two toy cars
Force and motion demonstration to show that gravity majes things fall at the same rate
Make smoke rings demonstration
Newtons laws explained and an Alka-seltzer rocket procedure
Paper Rockets, intsructions and 'lab report' from NASA
Roller coaster assesments and activities
Technology challenge- build a brick platform
Technology challenge - build a tall paper tower
Technology challenge - construct a paper bridge
Technology lab- design the tallest tower to support the most weight
Theme park physics worsheet designed to accompany a field trip to Islands of Adventure
Theory of flight simply explained
Use slinkies to explore different types of wave motion
'WaterBottleCannon' is a fun and simple way to demonstrate some physics concepts
Worksheet and instructions to design and construct a basic roller coaster
