Rube Goldberg Machine
Introducing Rube Goldberg machines? This site will let the kids go through the steps of finishing one, with some guidance along the way. From the Zoom website, it’s a pretty neat little gadget. Rube Goldberg Machine
Read MoreQuestacon Rollercoaster
Design a roller coaster. Make sure it has enough energy to get to the end or you’ll have to start over again. Interesting Australian Site. Questacon Rollercoaster
Read MoreAmusement Park Physics
Another rollercoaster design site. Been around for quite a while. Also has some things on Newton’s Laws. Take a look at the bumper cars. Amusement Park Physics
Read MoreIsaac Newton’s Laws of Motion
Nice little animation to help explain Newton’s Laws of Motion. I felt sorry for the little worm, though. Watch it and you’ll see what I mean. Isaac Newton’s Laws of Motion
Read MoreAmusement Park Physics
Parts of this are great, the other parts…not so good. The good parts are the roller coaster where you actually build part of a roller coaster. The other is the bumper cars where you work with predicting outcomes of collisions based on speed and angle. The rest is just alot of reading. I just used [...]
Read MorePhET-Physics Education Technology
This site is PACKED with sims and you can choose to run them different ways. You can choose online, full installation, or one at a time. I’ve listed it from this location so you can choose what you want to do. If you look to the left at the menu, you’ll see “Run Our Simulations.” [...]
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