Investigating Projectile Motion: Creating a Catapult part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This activity is a project where students build a catapult and analyze the energy transformations, role of Newton's Laws, and role of friction and other forces.

Investigating Motion With Marbles part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
Through the use of marbles, this investigative experiment gives students the opportunity to learn about motion.

Rotational Motion: Various Spools: Investigating Moment of Inertia and Torque part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
In this physics lab, students investigate the effects of different sizes of spools on the effect of torque and moment of inertia.

Investigating Motion - Graphing Speed part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This introduction to motion activity has students exploring speed and acceleration using a wheeled office chair and rope to pull a student a given distance and record the time. The results are graphed and different outcomes are predicted when variables are changed.

Science on a Skateboard - Applications of Newton's Third Law part of Pedagogy in Action:Library:Interactive Lectures:Examples
A think, pair, share activity with Socratic questioning to help students begin to understand rocket propulsion.

Marble Stop part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This activity is a classroom investigation where students test the impact track shape has on vertical distance of a rolling object.

Construction of a Complex Machine Through Classroom Collaboration part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
Successful completion of this cooperative learning activity requires the active involvement of the individual, the small group and the entire classroom (collaboration). The goal is to make a simple task as complicated as possible by constructing a single complex machine.

Bumps and Buckles: A Lesson on Motion part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This activity is a guided discovery where students gather information on how to add a seat belt to a clay figure that is sitting on top of a toy car. The clay figure should stay in place when it hits a speed bump placed after a ramp.