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This project lets students learn about the physics and math behind tensegrity structures as they research and create one with their team. After introducing the lesson with a short video (link included in resources), students work with their team to create a basic tensegrity structure following a short tutorial. Then, utilizing the knowledge gained from this, they build a second tensegrity structure of their choice, utilizing the principles and design ideas of tensegrity. As they work through both builds, they record their information on the included Engineering Design Process Planning Sheet with their team. Next, students present their project to the class and explain their design choices. Finally, students reflect on and summarize their learning with short answers to questions about the experience and what they learned.

This lesson was created for 7th and 8th grade, but could also be used successfully in upper elementary grades or high school as well.

Files included (non-editable, .pdf files):

• Teacher & Student Resources

• Student Instructions, Expectations and Grading Rubric

• Team Sign Up Sheet

• Engineering Design Process Planning Sheet

• Reflection Questions

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Engage your students with this lab experience designed to investigate mass, weight and calculating W=mg. This resource is a great way to practice the skills of measuring mass and weight, noting the difference in the measurements, calculating W=mg and connecting the relationship between mass and weight. 

This resource covers

• Making Predictions About Outcomes
• Using Measuring Tools - Triple Beam Balance/Scale and Spring Scale
• Measuring Mass
• Measuring Weight
• Calculating W=mg
• Comparing Calculated vs. Measured Values

Not every student needs the same support! This resource comes with 2 different student recording sheets. One to help learners that need more support and another for more independent students.

Includes:

• Teacher Guide
• 2 Versions of the Student Procedures and Answer Sheet
• Answer Keys
• BONUS Extension Activity: Acceleration Due to Gravity On Other Planets Research

Materials Needed:

• Triple Beam Balance or Digital Scale
• Spring Scale
• Several small objects of different masses
• Calculator

Printable PDF and a digital version are included in this distance learning ready activity. Two versions are included where students solve 15, KE = 0.5 x mv2 and GPE = mgh problems. One version gives students access to full solutions to self check their work via Tinyurl. The other is a traditional worksheet with no solutions.

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Two Forms of Use Included

1. Printable PDF
2. Google Slides

Printable PDF and a digital version are included in this distance learning ready activity. Two versions are included where students solve 15 S= D/T problems. One gives students access to full solutions to self check their work via Tinyurl. The other is a traditional worksheet with no solutions.

Important Information

This version requires students to make no conversions for their final units of measurement. Both versions contain the same problem sets, the difference is the ability to self check.

Distance learning?

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Two Forms of Use Included

1. Printable PDF
2. Google Slides

One "mini" lab that will help students observe and make connections that energy cannot be created or destroyed.

These short activities reinforce or introduce concepts to students. I call these activities “mini labs” because they are simple activities that do not take the whole class period. They are also activities that are safe for use in the classroom and do not have to be done in a lab or with any specialty equipment or materials.

Materials Needed

• 1-1.5 m length of string
• Pencil with an eraser
• Meter stick
• Level
• Pendulum Bob (I have substituted a fishing weight or mass with a hook when I did not have these available in my lab)
• Nail or hook above whiteboard (A 3M hook is great for this, no tools needed to install and does not hurt the walls!
• Whiteboard/Chalkboard (I have also used large sheets of paper on the wall for multiple stations)

For Middle School this supports or extends NGSS: MS PS3-5

For High School this supports MS PS2-2

Distance learning or need a digital copy to assign?

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Three Forms of Use Included

1. Printable PDF
2. Google Slides

Printable PDF & Digital Versions are included in this distance learning ready activity which consists of 15 speed, distance and time problems to solve.

Important Information

Not all boxes are used in the maze to avoid students from just figuring out the correct route. Students will have to correctly solve 11 problems to find their way through the maze.

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2. Google Slides
3. Easel by TeachShare

Printable PDF & Digital Versions are included in this distance learning ready activity which consists of 15 F=MA problems to solve.

Important Information

Not all boxes are used in the maze to avoid students from just figuring out the correct route. Students will have to correctly solve 11 problems to find their way through the maze.

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1. Printable PDF
2. Google Slides
3. Easel by TeachShare

Practice solving for weight, mass and gravity with this Printable PDF & Digital Versions are included in this distance learning ready activity which consists of 13 W=MG problems to solve.

Important Information

Not all boxes are used in the maze to avoid students from just figuring out the correct route. Students will have to correctly solve 11 problems to find their way through the maze.

Distance learning?

• No problem! This activity now includes Google Slides & Easel by TeachShare digital options!

Three Forms of Use Included

1. Printable PDF
2. Google Slides
3. Easel by TeachShare

Printable PDF & Digital Versions are included in this distance learning ready activity which consists of 13 W=MG and 15 F=MA problems to solve.

Important Information

Not all boxes are used in the maze to avoid students from just figuring out the correct route. Students will have to correctly solve 11 problems to find their way through the maze.

Distance learning?

• No problem! This activity now includes Google Slides & Easel by TeachShare digital options! Ready to go, no prep needed from you!

Three Forms of Use Included

1. Printable PDF
2. Google Slides
3. Easel by TeachShare

Are you a Physics teacher introducing your middle school students to Magnetism and Magnetic Fields? Notes, examples and application exercises are included. You can also easily convert this to a Google Slides lesson by dragging it into your Google Drive.

What is included?

✦ 36 total slides for notes, examples and applications.

Throughout the Lesson, students will be introduced to the following:
✦ Introduction to Magnetism

✦ Magnetic Fields and Magnetic Force

✦ Magnetic Materials and Their Properties

✦ Electromagnetism and Its Applications

✦ Magnetic Induction and Faraday's Law

✦ Magnetic Fields and Electric Currents

✦ Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

✦ Magnetic Levitation and Its Uses

✦ Temporary & Permanent Magnets

✦ Electromagnetism & Motors

✦ Uses of Electromagnets

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Are you a Physics teacher introducing your middle school students to The Six Simple Machines? Notes, examples and application exercises are included. You can also easily convert this to a Google Slides lesson by dragging it into your Google Drive.

What is included?

✦ 31 total slides for notes, examples and applications.

Throughout the Lesson, students will be introduced to the following:
✦ Define simple machines

✦ Name the 6 types of simple machines

✦ Wheel and axle: Definition, function, and making work easier

✦ Pulley: Definition, types, and how each type makes work easier.

✦ Inclined plane: definition, examples, the way it makes work easier

✦ The mechanical advantage of an inclined plane

✦ Screw: definition, examples, the way it makes work easier

✦ The mechanical advantage of a screw

✦ wedge: definition, examples, the way it makes work easier

✦ The mechanical advantage of a wedge

✦ Levers: definition

✦ Different parts of a lever.

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Are you a Physics teacher introducing your middle school students to Converging and Diverging Lenses? Notes, examples and application exercises are included. You can also easily convert this to a Google Slides lesson by dragging it into your Google Drive.

What is included?

✦ 33 total slides for notes, examples and applications.

Throughout the Lesson, students will be introduced to the following:
✦ Converging Lenses and Diverging Lenses

✦ Define a lens.

✦ Characteristics of lenses

✦ Differentiate between converging and diverging lenses.

✦ How does a converging lens affect the path of light?

✦ How does a diverging lens affect the path of light?

✦ Image Focus in converging and diverging Lens

✦ Path of the 3 particular light rays in a converging lens

✦ Path of the 3 particular light rays in a diverging lens

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Are you a Physics teacher introducing your middle school students to Waves and Electromagnetic Spectrum? Notes, examples and application exercises are included. You can also easily convert this to a Google Slides lesson by dragging it into your Google Drive.

What is included?

✦ 25 total slides for notes, examples and applications.

Throughout the Lesson, students will be introduced to the following:
✦ Definition of wave

✦ Parts of wave

✦ Calculation of frequency

✦ Calculation of speed

✦ Types of waves (according to motion of particles)

✦ Define EM spectrum

✦ List different EM waves and their uses

✦ Mention different relations

✦ Electromagnetic Spectrum

✦ Radio waves

✦ Microwaves

✦ Infrared Light

✦ Visible light

✦ Ultraviolet light

✦ X-Rays

✦ Gamma rays

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Are you a Physics teacher introducing your middle school students to Eyes - The Natural Optical Tool? Notes, examples and application exercises are included. You can also easily convert this to a Google Slides lesson by dragging it into your Google Drive.

What is included?

✦ 22 total slides for notes, examples and applications.

Throughout the Lesson, students will be introduced to the following:
✦ Interaction of eyes with light

✦ Parts of the eye

✦ How the eye forms the image

✦ Rod and Cone Cells

✦ How Light Travels Through The Human Eye

✦ Defects of The Eye (Myopia, Hypermetropia)

✦ CORRECTION OF MYOPIA

✦ Correction For Hypermetropia

✦ Accommodation

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Are you a Physics teacher introducing your middle school students to Formation of images (part 2)? Notes, examples and application exercises are included. You can also easily convert this to a Google Slides lesson by dragging it into your Google Drive.

What is included?

✦ 23 total slides for notes, examples and applications.

Throughout the Lesson, students will be introduced to the following:
✦ List the 5 cases of formation of image through a converging lens

✦ Construct the image of an object

✦ Give the relation between the position of the object and the characteristics of the image formed

✦ Find the position of the lens through its image.

✦ Find the position of the image focus

✦ Draw and characterize the image formed by a diverging lens

✦ Characteristics of the image

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Are you a Physics teacher introducing your middle school students to Mass Volume and Density? Notes, examples and application exercises are included. You can also easily convert this to a Google Slides lesson by dragging it into your Google Drive.

What is included?

✦ 18 total slides for notes, examples and applications.

Throughout the Lesson, students will be introduced to the following:
✦ Introduction to Mass, Volume, and Density

✦ Definition of Mass and its Units

✦ Measurement of Mass

✦ Definition of Volume and its Units

✦ Measurement of Volume

✦ Definition of Density and its Units

✦ Calculation of Density

✦ Relationship between Mass, Volume, and Density

✦ Volume of an object

✦ Calculating the volume of a solid rectangular object

✦ Measure the volume of an irregularly shaped object

✦ What is density?

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Are you a Physics teacher introducing your middle school students to metric system Conversions? Notes, examples and application exercises are included. You can also easily convert this to a Google Slides lesson by dragging it into your Google Drive.

What is included?

✦ 18 total slides for notes, examples and applications.

Throughout the Lesson, students will be introduced to the following:
✦ Metric system definition (Length, Volume, Mass)

✦ Conversions of metric system

✦ Cubic metric system

✦ Temperature Conversions

✦ Time conversions

✦ Speed conversions

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Are you a Physics teacher introducing your middle school students to Formation of images (part 1)? Notes, examples and application exercises are included. You can also easily convert this to a Google Slides lesson by dragging it into your Google Drive.

What is included?

✦ 21 total slides for notes, examples and applications.

Throughout the Lesson, students will be introduced to the following:
✦ Introduction to Formation of Images

✦ Basics of Optics

✦ Reflection and Refraction

✦ Types of Mirrors

✦ Concave Mirrors and their Characteristics

✦ Convex Mirrors and their Characteristics

✦ Types of Lenses

✦ Convex Lenses and their Characteristics

✦ Concave Lenses and their Characteristics

✦ Applications of Formation of Images

✦ General Characteristics of an Image Formed by a Lens

✦ How is the image of an object formed?

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Are you a Physics teacher introducing your middle school students to Safety devices? Notes, examples and application exercises are included. You can also easily convert this to a Google Slides lesson by dragging it into your Google Drive.

What is included?

✦ 13 total slides for notes, examples and applications.

Throughout the Lesson, students will be introduced to the following:
✦ Define the safety devices

✦ State the role of the safety devices

✦ Choose the suitable safety device

✦ Grounding a circuit

✦ Grounded Circuit

✦ Ungrounded Circuit

✦ Fuses

✦ Circuit Breaker

✦ GFCI (ground fault circuit interrupter)

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Are you a Physics teacher introducing your middle school students to Reflection and Refraction of light (part 2)? Notes, examples and application exercises are included. You can also easily convert this to a Google Slides lesson by dragging it into your Google Drive.

What is included?

✦ 12 total slides for notes, examples and applications.

Throughout the Lesson, students will be introduced to the following:
✦ Propagation of Light

✦ The Phenomenon of Refraction

✦ Index of Refraction

✦ The phenomenon of Refraction of Light

✦ The Phenomenon of Total Reflection of Light

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