http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/world/readfile?pageno=101&fk_files=2336624
TOPScience Pendulum #32
Using a stopwatch and calculator, your students will graph length vs frequency into a beautiful curve; they'll stand this curve on its head by plotting the period, then straighten it back out by squaring the period. This straight line leads directly to a simple pendulum equation with powerful applications. Math teachers, don’t miss this one
APOLLO 14 PENDULUM
For a detailed analysis of the Apollo 14 SEQ Bay Pendulum visit:
http://www.history.nasa.gov/alsj/a14/a14pendulum.html
FLOCABULARY
Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Pit and the Pendulum” in one terrifying rap song. The lyrics summarize the plot of Poe’s classic tale of torture.
http://flocabulary.com/poe-pit/
NASA NEW HORIZONS
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BULBS, BATTERIES, AND BRIGHT IDEAS
Teachers explore how student truly grasp simple science concepts of circuit design and current flow, using resources ranging from RadioShack to the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. The probe reveals whether students recognize the pathway of electricity in a comple circuit, including its path through the light bulb, to light a bulb using only one strip of wire and a battery.
Minds of Our Own Video On Demand
Why don't even the brightest students truly grasp simple science concepts? These video programs pick up on the questions asked in the Private Universe documentary and further explore how children learn. Based on recent research, as well as the pioneering work of Piaget and others, Minds of Our Own shows that many of the things we assume about how children learn are simply not true. For educators and parents, these programs bring new insight to debates about education reform.
Produced by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. 1997.
TOPScience Electricity #32
One of our best science programs ever for elementary and middle school age levels. Students will have lots of fun lighting bulbs, building circuits, designing switches, popping balloons, making fuses and more. These popular experiments are sure to spark an interest in the science of electricity.
Simple Electroscope
This activity helps you learn about static charge or static electricity and shows you how to construct a device that will check whether an object has a static charge.
TOPScience Electricity #19
These fun projects will have your students improvising bulb and battery holders and switches to configure parallel and series circuits. Hands on activities include constructing galvanometers, variable resistors, fuses, electroscopes and much more! Experiment with splitting water and recombining gases in a fun, safe, mini-explosion. Best used as follow-up to Electricity #32; lessons don't repeat.
