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A collection of resources from NSTA's Learning Center and those vetted by NSTA educators. The collection includes Science Objects that are part of the Force and Motion SciPack, NSTA Journal articles that discuss some 'phun' and creative ways to encourage students to share their understanding of concepts in non-mathematical ways, another look at the 'beloved' mousetrap car competitions, and a few applets from PhET that the teacher may use to interview students or to use for brainstorming and discussion sessions in class. Although the initial focus is on a high school level, the quality of the material is valuable at all levels of understanding and certainly offers many 'best practice' moments for the teacher of physics, physical science, or integrated science at all levels.
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Explore the forces at work when you try to push a filing cabinet. Create an applied force and see the resulting friction force and total force acting on the cabinet. Charts show the forces, position, velocity, and acceleration vs. time. View a Free Body Diagram of all the forces (including gravitational and normal forces).
force and motion and orbits
Blast a Buick out of a cannon! Learn about projectile motion by firing various objects. Set the angle, initial speed, and mass. Add air resistance. Make a game out of this simulation by trying to hit a target
kinematics and constant motion