Now that you’ve finished wrapping up distance and displacement, next up is speed and velocity. This product contains everything that you need: two pages of handout notes that give a complete description of speed and velocity, three sets of exercises that will ensure your students have an in depth understanding of these topics and a presentation that you can use during your instruction. No Preparation Necessary! Just Download and Go! Everything included as PDF files and editable Keynote, PowerPoint and Word files. At the top of the worksheet there is a link to the related video from my YouTube Channel, Step by Step Science. If your students need help understanding the concepts or completing the worksheet, they can simply click on the link and watch the YouTube video where everything is explained in detail. An outstanding resource for students who are not able to attend class. Contents (1) Handout notes (2) Exercises for your students to practice what they have learned. (3) Answer keys for all exercises. (4) Presentations in Keynote and PowerPoint. (5) PDF files for all materials

Using the PhET Faraday’s Law simulation your students will investigate electromagnetism and how changing the magnetic flux through a coil of wire induces a voltage in the coil of wire. Your students will be able to explain what happens when the magnet moves through the coil at different speeds, the difference between moving the magnet through the coil from the right side versus the left side and the difference between moving the magnet through a coil with more windings vs. a coil with fewer windings. This web-based lab activity is available as a PDF file that can be completed by distance learners. This online lab activity uses the Faraday’s Law HTML5 simulation from PhET Interactive Simulations. The simulation can be run from most cellphones, tablets and computers. Nothing to download or install. The link for the simulation can be found inside the resource. PhET simulations incorporate research-based, student centered activities that are fun and easy to use. All of the PhET simulations are available from their website: hET Interactive Simulations. This product includes: (1) The lab activity worksheets. (2) An answer key for the worksheets. (3) Notes covering a full description of Faraday’s Law.

This is a great online lab experiment for introducing the physics concepts associated with the refraction of light. Using the PhET Bending of Light simulation your students will investigate the refraction of light, the index of refraction and the velocity of light through different materials. Your students will be able to explain how the indices of refraction affect the angle of refraction, how to calculate the index of refraction and how to calculate the velocity of light through various materials. This web-based lab activity is available as a PDF file and can be completed by distance learners. This lab activity uses the Faraday’s Law HTML5 simulation from PhET Interactive Simulations. The simulation can be run from most cellphones, tablets and computers. Nothing to download or install. The link for the simulation can be found inside the resource. This product includes: (1) The lab activity worksheets. (2) An answer key for the worksheets. (3) Notes covering a full description of the refraction of light, index of refraction and Snell’s law.

This is a great physics experiment that can be done at school or at home. It makes a good science fair project or just a fun activity to do with the kids on the weekend. You probably have most of the materials you need around the house or you can get them with a quick trip to the grocery or hardware store. The purpose of this experiment is to investigate the relationship between the number of times the wire is wound around the metal bolt and the strength of the electromagnet. This experiment incorporates many of the activities that scientists do every day, including building and testing scientific equipment, collecting and analyzing data and drawing conclusions from your observations. There is a full demonstration of this experiment on my Step by Step Science YouTube channel. Link to the video: https://youtu.be/Ar-6s_tF3tM An electromagnet is a type of magnet in which the magnetic field is produced by an electric current. The electromagnets you will use in this experiment are made from a length of wire wrapped around a large metal bolt. A battery will be connected to each end of the wire. A current will then flow through the coil of wire producing a magnetic field inside the coil. The metal bolt concentrates the magnetic field in the coil, making it stronger. The field disappears when the current is turned off.

Using the PhET Projectile Motion simulation your students will perform several different experiments to investigate the motion of objects undergoing two-dimensional projectile motion. These investigations will include how the velocity and acceleration change in the x-direction and y-direction during the flight of the object and how the launch angle and mass of the object affect its range, maximum height and time of flight of the object. This web-based lab activity is available as a PDF file that can be completed by distance learners. This online lab activity uses the Projectile Motion HTML5 simulation from PhET Interactive Simulations. The simulation can be run from most cellphones, tablets and computers. Nothing to download or install. PhET simulations incorporate research based, student centered activities that are fun and easy to use. All of the PhET simulations are available from their website: PhET Interactive Simulations This product includes: (1) The lab activity worksheets. (2) An answer key for the worksheets. (3) Notes covering a full description of projectile motion.

As your students gain an in depth understanding of Hooke’s law from this Tes product, they will practice and learn several important science skills including: data collection, data interpretation, graphing and calculating. This product includes one page of handout notes that will give your students a detailed explanation of Hooke’s law and the principles behind it. Also included are three separate assignments for practicing the concepts and calculations related to Hooke’s law, and an HTML5 web-based inquiry lab using the Masses and Springs simulation from PhET interactive simulations. This simulation can be run from most cellphones, tablets and computers. Nothing to download or install. The inquiry lab will guide your students as they collect data, analyze results and formulate conclusions based on spring constant calculations and the forces applied to springs. Answer keys are included for all exercises. At the top of each worksheet there is a link to a video from my YouTube Channel, Step by Step Science. These videos give a detailed explanation of the material covered on the worksheet. If students need help understanding the concepts or completing the worksheets, they can simply click on the link and watch the YouTube video where the topic is explained in detail. An outstanding resource for students who are not able to attend class. The exercises and notes are included as PDF and Apple pages documents. The presentations are available in Keynote, Powerpoint and PDF. PhET simulations incorporate research based, student centered activities that are fun and easy to use. All of the PhET simulations are available from their website: phet.colorado.edu. The product includes: (1) One page of notes for Hooke’s Law (2) PhET Simulation Hooke’s Law Lab (3) Graphing and Interpreting Hooke’s Law Data (4) Reading and Interpreting a Hooke’s Law Graph (5) Calculations for the Hooke’s Law Equation (6) Presentation for Hooke’s Law (6) Answer Keys

The goal of this activity is for your students to gain a deeper understanding of static and kinetic friction forces, Newton’s laws of motion and how to determine the coefficients of static and kinetic friction. This activity includes collecting data about frictional forces, graphing the data and analysis of the graph to determine the coefficients of friction. This web based lab is available as a PDF file that can be completed by distance learners. This online lab activity uses the Forces and Motion: Basics HTML5 simulation from PhET Interactive Simulations. The simulation can be run from most cellphones, tablets and computers. Nothing to download or install. This product is part of a series of three products covering Newton’s laws of motion. The other two products are: PhET Simulation: Forces and Motion PhET Simulation: Newton’s Laws of Motion You and your students can get a full explanation of the friction forces and coefficients of friction from my Step by Step Science YouTube video: Newton’s 2nd Law, The Force of Friction, An Explanation PhET simulations incorporate research based, student centered activities that are fun and easy to use. All of the PhET simulations are available from their website: PhET Interactive Simulations. This product includes: (1) The lab activity worksheets. (2) An answer key for the worksheets. (3) Notes covering a full description of the kinetic and static friction forces and the coefficients of friction.

The primary goal of this activity is for your students to gain a deeper understanding of Newton’s first and second laws of motion. This is a great guided inquiry activity for investigating acceleration, balanced and unbalanced forces, and their effect on the motion of objects. After completion of this activity your students will be ready to start quantitative analysis of the motion of objects using Newton’s second law equation, F = m • a. I use this activity after my students have completed my Forces and Motion PhET Online Lab. This online lab activity uses the Forces and Motion: Basics HTML5 simulation from PhET Interactive Simulations. The simulation can be run from most cell phones, tablets and computers. Nothing to download or install. PhET simulations incorporate research based, student centered activities that are fun and easy to use. All of the PhET simulations are available from this website: PhET Interactive Simulations. This product includes: (1) The activity worksheets. (2) An answer key for the worksheets. (3) Notes covering a full description of Newton’s laws of motion.

This product from my Tes shop contains everything you need to teach the four kinematic equations with one dimensional horizontal motion. The kinematic equations are used to analyze the motion of objects that are experiencing constant uniform acceleration. In this product you get: a full sheet of handout notes including an explanation and two useful examples, three sets of exercises with answer keys and a detailed presentation for use during instruction or that your students can view outside the classroom. No Preparation Necessary! Just Download and Go! Everything included as PDF files and editable Keynote, PowerPoint and Word files. At the top of the worksheets there is a link to the related video from my YouTube Channel, Step-by-Step Science. If your students need help understanding the concepts or completing the worksheets, they can simply click on the link and watch the YouTube video where everything is explained in detail. An outstanding resource for students who are not able to attend class. Contains: (1) Handout notes (2) Three sets of exercises for your students to practice what they have learned. (3) Answer keys for all exercises. (4) Presentations in Keynote and PowerPoint. (5) Ready to go PDF files for all materials.

This product from my Tes shop contains everything you need to teach free fall motion. Objects experiencing free fall are moving only under the force of gravity and air resistance is ignored. This product includes: a full sheet of handout notes for your students including an explanation and two useful examples, three sets of exercises with answer keys and a detailed presentation for use during instruction or that your students can view outside the classroom. No Preparation Necessary! Just Download and Go! Everything included as PDF files and editable Keynote, PowerPoint and Word files. At the top of the worksheets there is a link to the related video from my YouTube Channel, Step-by-Step Science. If your students need help understanding the concepts or completing the worksheet, they can simply click on the link and watch the YouTube video where everything is explained in detail. An outstanding resource for students who are not able to attend class. Contains: (1) Handout notes (2) Three sets of exercises for your students to practice what they have learned. (3) Answer keys for all exercises. (4) Presentations in Keynote and PowerPoint. (5) PDF files for all material

In this kinematics product from my Tes shop you get everything you need to teach Position vs Time Graphs. This includes handout notes, six exercises with answer keys and a presentation for transforming position vs time graphs to velocity vs time graphs to acceleration vs time graphs. No Preparation Necessary! Just Download and Go! All the notes, exercises and solutions are included as PDFs and editable Pages files. The presentation is included as a PDF file, in Keynote and in PowerPoint. At the top of each worksheet there is a link to the related video from my YouTube Channel, Step by Step Science. If your students need help understanding the concepts or completing the worksheets, they can simply click on the link and watch the YouTube video where everything is explained in detail. An outstanding resource for distance learning and students who are not able to attend class. Contents: (1) Handout notes. (2) Six exercises for your students to practice what they have learned. (3) Answer keys for all exercises. (4) Presentation in Keynote and PowerPoint. (5) PDF files for all material

In this kinematics product from my Tes shop you get everything you need to teach Velocity vs Time Graphs. This includes handout notes and six exercises with answer keys for all the questions. No Preparation Necessary! Just Download and Go! All the notes, exercises and solutions are included as PDFs and editable Pages files. At the top of each worksheet there is a link to the related video from my YouTube Channel, Step by Step Science. If your students need help understanding the concepts or completing the worksheets, they can simply click on the link and watch the YouTube video where everything is explained in detail. An outstanding resource for distance learning and students who are not able to attend class. Contents: (1) Two pages of handout notes. (2) Six exercises for your students to practice what they have learned. A total of 12 pages. (3) Answer keys for all exercises. (4) PDF and Pages files for all materials.

This product is part of a series entitled Newton’s Second Law: Acceleration. The series contains the following products: Newton’s Second Law: Free Body Diagrams Newton’s Second Law: Acceleration Horizontal Newton’s Second Law: Mass on an Inclined Plane Newton’s Second Law: Two Masses, a Table and a Pulley Newton’s Second Law: Atwood Machine (Elevator) Each can be used on its own as a stand-alone assignment, but taken together they make an excellent unit covering the essential problem solving skills for analysing the motion of objects using Newton’s second law of motion. Each product contains guided notes that can be used when introducing this topic, two or more additional exercises that your students can use to practice these important problem solving skills, answer keys for all exercises and a presentation for use during instruction. At the top of each set of exercises there is a link to videos from my Step by Step Science YouTube channel. The videos provide detailed descriptions and additional examples that correspond to the problems on the exercise sheets. This is a great resource for distance learners or students who are not able to be in class for the lesson. All exercises and presentations are provided in PDF and fully editable formats.

This product is part of a series entitled Newton’s Second Law: Acceleration. The series contains the following products: Newton’s Second Law: Free Body Diagrams Newton’s Second Law: Acceleration Horizontal Newton’s Second Law: Mass on an Inclined Plane Newton’s Second Law: Two Masses, a Table and a Pulley Newton’s Second Law: Atwood Machine (Elevator) Each can be used on its own as a stand-alone assignment, but taken together they make an excellent unit covering the essential problem solving skills for analysing the motion of objects using Newton’s second law of motion. Each product contains guided notes that can be used when introducing this topic, two or more additional exercises that your students can use to practice these important problem solving skills, answer keys for all exercises and a presentation for use during instruction. At the top of each set of exercises there is a link to videos from my Step by Step Science YouTube channel. The videos provide detailed descriptions and additional examples that correspond to the problems on the exercise sheets. This is a great resource for distance learners or students who are not able to be in class for the lesson. All exercises and presentations are provided in PDF and fully editable formats.

Need a great lab activity to engage your students and light up your classroom? This activity combines everything that students love: lab work, flames and color. In this lab your students will try to identity the following six metal salts based on their emission colors. Calcium chloride: Orange Copper chloride: Blue green Lithium chloride: Red orange Sodium chloride: Yellow Potassium chloride: Light violet Strontium chloride: Red Just like every person has a unique finger print, the color of light emitted by a metal when heated in a flame is unique to that metal. The emission colors can therefore be used to identify specific metals. When the metal salts are placed in the flame the electrons in each atom absorb energy. This energy is used to move the electrons from their ground state to an excited state. When the electrons move back to a lower energy level they emit the absorbed energy as a particle of light called a photon. You can see a video of the flame test colors on my YouTube channel. I hope you enjoy this great activity, I know your students will. Contents: Teacher’s Guide. Flame test lab worksheets and solutions in PDF and editable Pages documents.

Just starting out with Newton’s second law of motion? Don’t want to scare your students off with the equations and calculations? Then this is the perfect product for you. Using this product from my Tes shop your students will gain a strong conceptual understanding of how to apply Newton’s second law to many different situations. This is an important step for students to master before moving on to quantitative analysis of the motion of objects. Free body diagrams show the relative magnitude and direction of all the forces acting on an object. The number of forces shown on a free body diagram depends on the specific problem and the assumptions made; air resistance is commonly ignored to simplify the problem. If the forces acting on an object are balanced, then the object is not accelerating and is therefore either moving with a constant velocity or at rest. If the forces acting on an object are unbalanced, then the object is accelerating. At the top of each set of exercises there is a link to videos from my Step by Step Science YouTube channel. The videos provide detailed descriptions and additional examples that correspond to the problems on the exercise sheets. This is a great resource for distance learners or students who are not able to be in class for this lesson. All exercises and presentations are provided in PDF and fully editable formats. Contents: (1) Handout notes. (2) Three sets of free body diagram exercises. (3) Answer keys for all exercises. (4) Presentation in Keynote and PowerPoint. (5) PDF files for all the documents. (6) Editable Pages files for all the exercises.

Newton’s Second Law: Acceleration This Newton’s laws of motion product includes a complete set of teaching and learning materials for analyzing the motion and determining the acceleration of objects in different situations using Newton’s second law. In addition to drawing free body diagrams, your students will learn how to calculate the magnitude of the force of gravity, the normal force, the applied force and the force of friction. Students will also be introduced to the concept of the coefficient of friction and its effect on the acceleration of an object. This product contains everything you need: presentations for Newton’s three laws of motion with example problems for calculating acceleration using Newton’s second law of motion; four sets of practice exercises where your students will analyze the motion of objects using free body diagrams to calculate the forces acting on an object, the coefficient of friction and acceleration; a complete in depth set of notes covering all three of Newton’s laws of motion; and answer keys for all exercises. At the top of the notes and each set of exercises there is a link to videos from my Step by Step Science YouTube channel. The videos provide detailed descriptions and additional examples that correspond to the problems on the exercise sheets. This is a great resource for distance learners or students who are not able to be in class for this lesson. All exercises and presentations are provided in PDF and fully editable formats. If your students are not yet familiar with free body diagrams, consider my companion product on this topic. Contents: (1) Three pages of notes providing an in depth explanation of Newton’s laws of motion. (2) Four separate sets of exercises for calculating acceleration using Newton’s second law of motion. A total of nine pages. (3) Answer keys for all exercises. (4) Presentations with example problems in Keynote and PowerPoint. (5) PDF files for all the documents. (6) Fully editable Pages files for all the documents.

This guided inquiry lab from my Tes shop will help your students gain an in depth understanding of the difference between resistors in series circuits and resistors in parallel circuits. I have done these activities with my students many times and they always find them fun and engaging. The best part is that your students won’t even know they are learning as they complete the inquiry-based laboratory assignment sheet that is included. These guided inquiry activities are intended to be used with one of the two HTML5 Circuit Construction Kits from PhET Interactive Simulations. With these activities your students can quickly build electric circuits and collect accurate data that will allow them to compare the characteristics of resistors in series with resistors in parallel. With a little up-front guidance your students will be able to complete the activity with little assistance. The goals of these activities are that your students will understand: (1) how the voltage drop across resistors changes when resistors are added in series and parallel (Kirchhoff’s voltage rule). (2) how the current through resistors changes when resistors are added in series and parallel (Kirchhoff’s current rule). (3) how the equivalent resistance changes when resistors are added in series and parallel. (4) how the power output (bulb brightness) of the resistors changes when resistors are added in series and parallel. (5) how removing one resistor from the circuit changes the behavior of the remaining resistors for series and parallel circuits. This HTML5 web-based inquiry lab can be run from the internet browser on most cellphones, tablets and computers. Nothing to download or install. All of the PhET simulations are available from their website: PhET Interactive Simulations. The product includes: (1) Series Resistors Lab: Voltage, Current, Resistance and Bulb Brightness (2) Parallel Resistors Lab: Voltage, Current, Resistance and Bulb Brightness (3) Summary Assignment: Summary Comparing Resistors in Series and Parallel Circuits (4) Notes Comparing Series and Parallel Resistors (5) A Getting Started Teachers Guide (6) Answer Keys

Looking for a great activity to start your unit on Newton’s laws of motion? Don’t want to give a big lecture or start with a bunch of mathematical calculations? Students love PhET Interactive Simulations and this guided inquiry activity on forces and motion is a great way to get started. Have fun and learn at the same time. This online lab activity uses the Forces and Motion: Basics HTML5 simulation from PhET Interactive Simulations. The simulation can be run from most cellphones, tablets and computers. Nothing to download or install. I find this to be a great guided inquiry activity that will work well for students from middle school through high school. This activity will guide students as they investigate different force scenarios and how they affect the motion of objects. They will be able to determine the magnitude and direction of the net force acting on an object, describe the effect of balanced and unbalanced forces acting on an object and why an object doesn’t move even when forces are being applied to it. PhET simulations incorporate research based, student centered activities that are fun and easy to use. All of the PhET simulations are available from their website: PhET Interactive Simulations. After completion of this activity you can have further discussions about the types of forces acting on an object, drawing free body diagrams, and the relationship between mass, force and acceleration as described by Newton’s second law of motion. This product includes: (1) The activity worksheets. (2) An answer key for the worksheets. (3) Notes covering a full description of Newton’s laws of motion.

This product from my Tes shop will help your students gain a complete understanding of how the amplitude, mass, gravity and spring strength affect the period of a mass oscillating on a spring. I have done this activity with my students many times and they always find it fun and engaging. The best part is that your students won’t even know they are learning as they complete the laboratory assignment sheet that is included. If your students need additional help completing this lab activity they can also watch the video from my Step by Step Science YouTube channel: Simple Harmonic Motion, What Effects the Period of a Mass on a Spring?: This inquiry-based lab activity uses the Mass and Spring: Basic HTML5 simulation from PhET Interactive Simulations. The simulation can be run from most cellphones, tablets and computers. Nothing to download or install. The simulation will guide students as they collect data, analyze results and formulate conclusions on what factors affect the period of a mass oscillating on a spring. PhET simulations incorporate research based, student centered activities that are fun and easy to use. All of the PhET simulations are available from their website: PhET Interactive Simulations. This product includes the lab worksheets and answer key as well as a Getting Started Teachers Guide.