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Wine Glass Lab: Resonance and the Wave Equation | This activity is designed to help students understand the concept of resonance through the application of the wave equation to sounds produced by a singing wine glass. |
CollegeReview.com | This is a model-eliciting activity where students have been asked by a new website, CollegeReview.com, to come up with a system to rank various colleges based on five categories; tuition cost, social life, athletics, education, city population and starting salary upon graduation. Model Eliciting Activities, MEAs, are open-ended, interdisciplinary problem-solving activities that are meant to reveal students’ thinking about the concepts embedded in realistic situations. Click here to learn more about MEAs and how they can transform your classroom. |
Motion: Speed and Velocity | In this lesson students should be able to :
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Riding the Roller Coaster of Success | Students compete with one another to design and build a roller coaster from insulation tubing and tape that will allow a marble to travel from start to finish with the lowest average velocity. In so doing, students learn about differences between distance and displacement, speed and velocity, and potential and kinetic energy. They also examine the Law of Conservation of Energy and concepts related to force and motion. |
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The golden ratio | In this tutorial, students learn an algebraic approach to understanding Phi, one of the most amazing numbers in mathematics. |
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The golden ratio: | In this tutorial, students learn an algebraic approach to understanding Phi, one of the most amazing numbers in mathematics. |