Various Group Activities Using Learning Assistants
Stephanie Chasteen, University of Colorado at Boulder
Undergraduate Learning Assistants have been used to facilitate group work in a variety of ways, such as in-lecture tutorials and worksheets, group work in required recitations, and group work in optional ...

Unit 4.2 Why do objects change their motion?
Sandra Penny, Russell Sage College, and Natalie Bursztyn, University of Montana
Why do objects change their motion? In this unit, students discover force types and the connection between a force and an acceleration. In an engineering and design project, students will construct a ...

Initial value problems
Heather Whitney, Wheaton College (IL)
This is a very open-ended project in which I assemble student groups of 5-6 students. They are required to select and model a physical problem using initial value methods or adaptive methods. This is a summative ...

Catapults: controlled investigations
Ted Fraedrich Ramsey IFAC Minneapolis, MN Based on the original activity, "Flippers", from the FOSS kit, Variables. See http://www.fossweb.com/delegate/ssi-foss-ucm/ucm?dDocName=D1446402
This activity is a controlled investigation of a catapult system.

Is It Hot in Here? -- Spreadsheeting Conversions in the English and Metric Systems
cheryl coolidge, Colby-Sawyer College
Spreadsheets Across Curriculum module/Introductory chemistry course. Students build spreadsheets to examine unit conversions between the metric and English systems. Spreadsheet level: Beginner.

Using Learning Assistants to Support Peer Instruction with Classroom Response Systems ("Clickers")
Stephanie Chasteen, University of Colorado at Boulder
Learning Assistants are used to facilitate student discussion in peer instruction during clicker questions (i.e., classroom response systems), by asking Socratic questions, emphasizing reasoning, and probing student thinking.

Reflection and Absorption of Light
This activity is taken from Earth Science With Vernier by Robyn Johnson, Gretchen Stahmer DeMoss, and Richard Sorensen, Published by , Vernier Software (more info) . This Starting Point page was created by Robert MacKay, Clark College .
Students use a microcomputer connected to a light sensor and temperature probe to explore the reflection and absorption of light. -

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.

The physics and engineering of a trebuchet
Brad Hubred, Little Falls Community Middle School, Little Falls, MN Some of the activities for this lesson are from the activity book called "Trebuchet's teacher's guide" by: Jennifer Fenske, published by: Pitsco, Inc. in 2006.
This activity is a hands on investigation in which students will construct, and launch a trebuchet.

Conceptest: Equator tilt
David McConnell, North Carolina State University
What would happen to the average temperature at the equator during our summer if the tilt angle of Earth's axis increased to 27 degrees? A. Temperatures would increase B. Temperatures would decrease C. ...