Nature of Science / Teamwork Lessons

Use the patterns found on five sides of a cube to predict the design of the missing side
Virtual Update: Fully virtual models of the cubes that can be explored on any device
​Determine the rules of a board game by making observations from watching the game as it's played
​Virtual Update: Animated sample games shared as GIFs and Videos
Decode secret messages that have been encoded using a variety of different methods to solve a mystery​Virtual Update: Interactive Jamboard template for students to collaborate virtually

Motion

Students work in groups of 3-4 to make their way through their unique (but interdependent) google forms by solving motion calculation and graphing problems.
Students find analyze the shapes of various motion graphs
​Virtual Update: Converted physical cards into a Desmos Card Sort
Find a motion graph shape to match a description
​Virtual Update: Created a google site to present google form and posters at the same time
Create a stop motion video to depict constant velocity at constant acceleration
At Home Modification: Use materials from home and line notebook paper as the course
​Series of labs using video analysis to study the nature of free fall and calculate unknowns using the acceleration due to gravity

Forces

​Series of labs using video analysis and phone sensors to to study the nature of friction and calculate the coefficient of kinetic/dynamic and static friction

Circular Motion

Using distance measurements of a flying pig, calculate the time to make ten complete revolutions

Energy & Momentum

​A design lab using a simulation to investigate the relationship between work and energy.
​Series of labs using video analysis to investigate the conservation of momentum in collision
Video analysis of a skateboard luge to calculate as many physics properties as possible

Waves

A guided investigation lab on wave properties using the Wave on a String simulation from PhET.
Investigating the mathematical model relating the frequency of a glass instrument to the amount of water inside the glass.
​Series of labs investigating the mathematical models for refraction due to a medium change and diffraction in double slit experiment.

Electricity

Students work in a team of 3-4 to work their way through this google form based escape room practicing electrical properties and circuit analysis
​Series of labs to introduce circuit design, measuring circuits, and recognizing electrical properties in real life applications
​Virtual lab to determine the emf and internal resistance for a battery by graphing voltage and current