Discovering New Worlds
Dora Kastel, New Visions for Public Schools
This resource is a set of student and teacher materials for a new NGSS-driven Earth & Space Science (ESS) unit (4-6 weeks of instruction). The anchor phenomenon students are exploring through modeling and data ...

Using Your Marbles: Making Energy Work for You
Alisa Hilfinger
potential energy, kinetic energy, work

Graph Predictions for Position, Velocity and Acceleration
Scott Bonham, Western Kentucky University
Graphical Just-in-Time-Teaching questions for use before classes in which students explore position, velocity and acceleration graphs.

Egg Drop
Bowman Corey
This activity is an outdoor lab where students gather data and calculate velocity, acceleration, momentum, and force of a vessel they create to safely deliver 2 eggs from the roof to the pavement below.

Lighting the Way: Electrical Circuits and Lamp Wiring
Nichole A. Kotasek Minnesota New Country School Henderson, MN Utilizes original activities from TOPS Learning Systems, Electricity 32
This self-paced unit for students in grades 6-9 provides an opportunity to explore basic electrical circuits and demonstrate the new knowledge by wiring a lamp, explaining the components of the lamp that are important for the flow of electricity, and completing a schematic of the lamp circuitry.

Investigating Batteries: Building an Electrolytic Cell
carolyn fruin
This activity is an inquiry where students will design an electrolytic cell that produces work in the form of lighting a bulb.