Physics

Roller Coaster Challenge

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In this thrilling engineering challenge, players get to build their very own roller coasters. Start by choosing a challenge card and setting up the pieces to match. Then, players use the remaining pieces to build a working roller coaster that meets the build conditions on their challenge card.

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Elementary
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Content Area: 
Science
Roller Coaster Challenge

Teaching Secondary Science Through Play

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This book provides broad support for using games in middle and high school science classes including Earth science/living environment, biology, chemistry, and physics. The lesson plans and resources support a play-based approach to evolution, ecosystems, cellular organisms, elements and compounds, and vector motion. Though easy to learn, the included games provide detailed scientific accuracy allowing complex simulations and immersive learning experiences.

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Evolution. Dominic Crapuchettes, Dmitry Knorre, Sergey Machin. North Star Games, 2014.

Teaching Secondary Science Through Play

The Magic School Bus Complete Series Disc 2

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Welcome Aboard The Magic School Bus! Are you ready for a wild ride? Grab a seat and hang on for the Emmy® award-winning animated science-adventure series based on the best-selling books.

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Joanna Cole
Grade Level: 
Primary
Elementary
Length: 
02:41
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Destruct 3

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One player builds a block tower in the center of the board, then the other players attempt to destroy the stack using either a ramp, catapult, or pendulum. The destruction method each player uses is determined by a die roll.

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Elementary
Middle
High
Content Area: 
Science
Play Time: 
15 min.
Destruct 3

108 Stitches: The Physics in Baseball (2004)

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Shows the various physical forces at play in the pitch, the hit, the flight of the ball and the run around the bases. DVD includes 4 programs: 1. The Pitch takes a look at gravity, air drag, and the Magnus force. 2.

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Middle
High
Length: 
00:28
108 Stitches: The Physics in Baseball

The Elegant Universe (2003)

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Examines one of the most revolutionary theories in physics today - String Theory. String Theory argues that fundamental elements of nature are minute strands of energy, whose different levels of vibration underlie everything in the universe. If this theory is correct, it could mean a universe with many different dimensions, ones that are unseen to our eyes.

Grade Level: 
High
Length: 
03:00
The Elegant Universe

Rough Science, Disc 3 (2002)

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Contains 4 programs, each around 30 minutes long. In each program, a team of scientists that includes biologists, chemists, and physicists must work together to solve challenges using only rudimentary tools and indigenous materials.

Grade Level: 
High
Length: 
01:48
Rough Science, Disc 3

Rough Science, Disc 2 (2002)

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Includes 3 episodes, each about 30 minutes long. In each program a team of scientists that includes physicists, chemists, and biologists and botanists are transported to an isolated island where they must work together to solve challenges using only rudimentary tools and indigenous materials.

Grade Level: 
High
Length: 
01:21
Rough Science, Disc 2

Rough Science, Disc 1 (2002)

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Contains 3 episodes, each about 30 minutes in length. In each episode, a team of scientists that includes biologists, chemists, and physicists are transported to an isolated island where they must work together to solve challenges using mainly indigenous items.

Grade Level: 
High
Length: 
01:21
Rough Science, Disc 1

Physics Demonstrations in Sound & Waves: Part III (2001)

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Demonstrations include: 1: Standing Sound Waves - Resonating Air Column with Cork Dust; 2: Standing Sound Waves - Resonance with Illuminating Gas in Flame Tube; 3: Standing Sound Waves in Two-Dimensions - Illuminating Gas in a Resonating Cavity; 4: Vibrations in a Two-Dimensional Surface - Chladni Plate; 5: Resonance/Real-Time Strobe Holography - Resonant Modes of a Vibrating Bell; 6: Quality

Grade Level: 
High
Physics Demonstrations in Sound & Waves: Part III

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